Phantom images

[STEvil]

I'm not sure how many you guys have seen but this is the 3rd that i've seen in a while.. first time i've ever seen one in person from a peice of hardware I owned.

There's a very impressive one if I can get the owner to post it ;)

This picture is of a plastic backpiece to an ATi Radeon X1800 Mobility that has given me issues since I first purchased the laptop it came in pretty much. A few days ago it "gave up the ghost" and I couldnt get into windows with it so I pulled it out and that peice of plastic fell off the back (it sticks pretty good usually). I have never had it off before. As you can see there is an image of the core burned into the plastic.

How?

[[XC] riptide]

Tis teh Ghost stevil.

[saaya]

how was it mounted to the card?
what is the white stuff? thermal grease?
are you 100% sure it never touched the gpu directly, like when you assembled the whole thing?

[STEvil]

white stuff is just some TIM that was on my finger when I picked it up probably. The black peice never came off the back of the card before those pictures, Saaya.

[cirthix]

It must have touched the core at some point. maybe during assembly somebody stuck it on the wrong side and then switched it back.

[saaya]

maybe when you wanted to mark the holes on the insulation you put it on the front side of the card, and it left a slight mark but not visible and then over time there was some reaction so now it shows the logo? i cant really believe the printing travelled through the entire card... somehow... :D

its easy i guess... just try to reproduce it...
if you can reproduce it then we def gotta rework the quantum theory or something :lol:

[STEvil]

It came on the card right from the factory.. then was put in a laptop and shipped to me. Could be some doof at Alienware put it on the core I guess.

Either way the really impressive one hasnt been posted yet... come on Rol-Co! ;)