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My T-bird is water cooled. On saturday I left my rig running when I got busy with something else... came back, no display. Turn off, reboot. Long beep of death. Pull cover and find some idiot (me) had not tightened a hose clamp all the way. Water in bottom of case, water on Voodoo 5.... Much cursing, tear system down apply much compressed air, paper towels, blow dryer on cool setting. Reassemble.
Long beep of death. Swap out video card. System boots all ok.

Mourn intensely over death of Voodoo 5. Remember reading article about condensation soaked PIII revived after several hours in an oven at 150 degrees. Pop Voodoo 5 in oven - it is dead anyway - bake voodoo 5 at 150 with oven door ajar for about 4 hours (only while girlfriend is still asleep) - do not baste. Pop V5 in monday morning. It works.......

LOL, nothing like a happy ending. Ilike this part "(only while girlfriend is still asleep)".

Next time try basteing it I hear it will improve performance LOL I'd say you got lucky

hahaha 150...man that card gets hotter then that Running. that is kool congrats.

Greg

now that is some SERIOUS PC ABUSIN'

been dull around here since people quit crushing their tbirds..........

Whoever said I was lucky ain't fooling. I already have a partially toasted T-Bird (Boots in Windows and then fails) and I was sure I was going to have two. At that point I was thinking that some overclockers have T-Bird keychains, but not too many have made T-Bird earrings for the girlfriends or spouses. I have no idea how my mainboard survived...

Gotta wring the voodoo out tonight and see if it does everything it used too. It is interesting to speculate as to how waterproof the actual PCB of the card is. I decided to throw the card in the oven cuz i remembered that some one had save a PIII and it seemed to be "sweating" moisture when I was gazing wistfully at it after I was sure I had killed it....

Greg is right though, 150 degrees was pretty wimpy when you think about how hot these puppies run.