Anthony,
Sadly I agree with you. Specially with video cards. I freely admit that
I have not kept up with this tech for the past many years; mostly
because it was changing too fast, and, the prices escalating beyond my
ability to play! The numerous M$ OS changes did not help either. Add in
the CPU skirmishes between Intel and AMD and the attendant changes to
m/b chipsets,...........well, my eyes just glazed over. Way TMI!
I now rarely use any RMA process any longer. I just take my loss and
truck on. Warranties and RMA policies have way too much "mice-type."
The MFGs hold all the cards. All I hold is a dead(?) object and a
receipt. I just suck it up and change vendor/MFG. But, that is just my plan.
Congrats on the working video card!
Best,
Duncan
On 03/17/2010 12:21, Anthony Q. Martin wrote:
Day after day, I'm getting more and more confident that I indeed had a
bad card. This card seems rock solid, even though the driver may be not
be perfect (not that I've noticed any problems, mind you). I'm not
looking forward to trying to convince HIS that I have a bad card and to
issue me an RMA. The pain of that process almost makes me just want to
take the loss....sad I know...but pain is pain.
On 3/16/2010 11:38 AM, Stan Zaske wrote:
Furmark is the one all the hardware enthusiast use and it has a
benchmark/Stability test modes that will tell you if your card is
stable or not. I suspect your HIS is bad and needs an RMA.
On 3/15/2010 9:35 AM, Anthony Q. Martin wrote:
Ok....
I had a HIS ATI Radeon HD 5770 in this system. Tried all drivers
available, using driver cleaner to remove previous drivers, etc, yet
the same result persisted: Crashing.. Yesterday, my PC reboot several
times during the day. On some days, it doesn't do that.
I just loaded in A Sapphire Radeon HD 5770 in thsi system. While
these cards are basically the same, performance wise, they boards are
different as this one has to DVI ports on it while the other other
only had one. Thus, the layouts of the boards are very different (I
didn't want to risk getting the exact same board for fear of some
fundamental problem in the board design from HIS or ATI).
So far, and not much time has gone by since I just installed this
board a couple of hours ago, things seem to be working. WEI works as
done some program I got called Performance Test.
My question is what software can I use the drive this video card in a
loop to see if it really works or not? Or, am I going to have to see
here and wait for a crash?
Thanks.
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