PooF! $550.00 Video card up in Smoke and Flames!

Sorry about the blowout Wildkow. I had a EPOX motherboard do the same thing to me a few months back. Since the board was about 5 years old, I wasn't too bummed. A good time to upgrade. Since your card isn't very old hopefully they will send you a new one so you can get back to folding.

good luck,

-Peter B

 

All I buy is EVGA Nvidia cards and I have never had a problem with on. I'm running two in SLI mode currently and couldn't be happier....

Wildkow are you a gamer?

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Wildkow @ Apr 16 2007, 11:32 PM) [snapback]424422[/snapback]</div>

I haven't looked at boards yet (I was truthfully trying to wait for barcelona to come out in June/July-- I DOUBT this will happen though). My current power supply is a cosair 620w model, its already seated in my case-antec p180b (version 1.1). I'm growing impatient and memory prices have been rock bottom these past few weeks ... I might just go get everything depending on the size of my next couple of pay checks....

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Presto @ Apr 17 2007, 08:17 PM) [snapback]424972[/snapback]</div>

Huh, that's odd. It is definitely GX270's that are failing for me. Doing a quick google search on the two models, it looks like they both had the same issue. The capacitors were bulging on the first one I looked at. After that I just called dell for motherboard replacements once the dreaded "thermal event error" messages started appearing on boot.

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Wildkow @ Apr 19 2007, 09:03 PM) [snapback]426462[/snapback]</div>

I really hope you get your replacement. I don't think that the supervisor should be able to reverse everything after an email has already been sent out. The company should just eat the costs and train their staff better if an RMA should not have been issued.

 

I have seen cards with similiar burn marks after being placed into a slot that had metal shavings in it... Sometimes a piece of solder can fall into a slot and cause problems.

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Wildkow @ Apr 16 2007, 02:47 PM) [snapback]424129[/snapback]</div>

Yes.

Long story short:

GWB's foreign policy ultimately encourages cheap and shoddy labor...

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Wildkow @ Apr 16 2007, 11:47 AM) [snapback]424129[/snapback]</div>

You mention that the card is a warranty replacement – what killed the original one?
What was the problrm with the original power supply?
Is it possible that a BIOS setting for the PCI Express x16 slot caused the original (and the current) failures.
What kind of intermittent problems you had with XP? – could be an updated (from Microsoft) video driver to blame.
More than once after doing MS hardware driver updates I ended up with scrambled video
(That’s why I regularly do a Symantec GHOST image backup of my drives and ALWAYS before any driver or hardware update/upgrade).

I’ve made it a habit of keeping a couple of “vanilla†PCI and AGP video cards so that I can get the system up if my real video card kicks the bucket.

Many times XP instability can be cured with simple remedies since re-installing XP (especially after you have installed SP2) can be, at best, a hairy experience:

In safe mode delete any files in
C:\TEMP,
C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Local Settings\Temp
C:\Documents and Settings\<User Name> \Local Settings\Temp
(Note <User Name> any assigned user on the computer, repeat for all assigned users)

For video problems:
(Provided you have original video card CD)
In safe mode reset the video mode to “standard vga†by uninstalling the video card,
rebooting again in safe mode, verifying that you are in plain old VGA and re-installing the drivers in safe mode.

Hope you resolve the issue


That's why they DID NOT call it XPA (eXtended Pain in the nice person)