Winterlight,
From your send, THE card you got back from the original RMA is now "WhoKnows."
If this card still works, except for temps, put a better cooler on it and go.
Kiss the warranty goodbye!
What "warranty" are you worried about? Most of those warranties die prior
to the buyer (you) level.
Well, as I read this List anywho......and personal experience!....... :)
Key part is to be sure that the GPU did not become unhappy. A tough call,
yes, I know.
And, I suppose with all these modern video cards, my suggestion may not be
as easy as in the old days.....
Replacement coolers could be tough to find..............Modern tech can
still be a giant PITA!
Luck Bro...........
Best,
Duncan
At 19:16 04/29/2009 -0700, you wrote:
I have two ASUS EAH4870 video cards installed. One I bought last December,
and one in September. The December one's fan went out at the beginning of
this month. One day I sat down to my computer, and it had turned it self
off overnight. Every time I turned it on it would work for a while and
then shut down.
Eventually, I figured out that the video cards fan wasn't always working,
and when it went off it would get hot and the motherboard would shut the
PC down.
I RMA'd it .
The card came back yesterday, I installed it, things worked fine until a
few hours ago at which time my PC turned off. Once again the fan was off
and would not turn on after powering off and on. I called Asus and once
again I am RMAing it. <sigh> Could it possibly be anything else that is
causing this? I asked them if they could just send me a new fan to install
but no.. I have to spend another 10-15 bucks sending it back to them.
I am beginning to think I should put my own fan on it, even if it would
void the warranty, but where would I find something like that? They must
be highly engineered.
I feel like I am screwed here, and am going to go another two plus weeks
with out my other monitors just because some guy didn't replace the fan
the first time.
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