So I RMA'd my EVGA 8800GTX and they sent back a broken 8800GTX

Bman212121 · 02-27-10, 07:18 AM

Thanks a lot EVGA.

We'll just add that to the pile.

EVGA 780i - Dead ~ 1 year
9600GT KO - Dead ~ 1 year
8800GTX - Dead ~ 2 years
8800GTX - Dead < 1 week

XFX

Ti4200 - Alive 6 years
6800GT - Alive 4 1/2 years
2 x 780i - Alive 1 1/2 years
8800GTX - Alive 2 1/2 years (Friends card)

ragejg · 02-27-10, 07:56 AM

Damn, I feel for ya. I haven't had a dead piece of equipment since an ATI 9500 over 7 years ago.

Maybe you need to install some ESD mats or check the quality of grounding in your house.

02-27-10, 08:13 AM

Man that sucks... you gonna contact eVGA again?

See if jAkup can help...

CaptNKILL · 02-27-10, 10:22 AM

That's ridiculous man.

I'd start using different power supply brands or something. Or get a UPS for your system to clean up power fluctuations or something. There has to be a reason that you lose so many components. I've only seen two dead video cards in the past 10 years, and only one was my full time card (Ti 4400 back in 2003 I think).

Bman212121 · 02-27-10, 12:23 PM

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Originally Posted by CaptNKILL

That's ridiculous man.

I'd start using different power supply brands or something. Or get a UPS for your system to clean up power fluctuations or something. There has to be a reason that you lose so many components. I've only seen two dead video cards in the past 10 years, and only one was my full time card (Ti 4400 back in 2003 I think).

Nope, it's just ****ty EVGA products.

I do have an APC BR1500 UPS powering my system the card is in. I've never had a video card die on me before that 9600GT KO did. EDIT: I take that back, my friends EVGA 6800GT PCI-E died. My XFX AGP is still rocking.

Also, the board was in a friends system I built, the 9600GT was at another location, and my 8800GTX at home. So all of them with different PSUs, different power sources.

I've been running a pair of MSI 8800GTs 24/7 with folding @ home on a TT 750W psu, and those seem to manage just fine. The ONLY brand I've ever had to RMA has been EVGA.

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Originally Posted by |MaguS|

Man that sucks... you gonna contact eVGA again?

See if jAkup can help...

Yea I probably will. Maybe not even bother to get a replacement but at least tell them they should do a little more QA before they send replacement parts. I didn't even play a game on it yet. It was just idling at the desktop when it BSOD the pc.

Dr.Nick · 02-27-10, 12:29 PM

Had the same problem a while ago with my evga 8800gtx rma where I received a physically modified dead card -aka someone had taken a hacksaw to the metal heatsink cover- that a blind person would have known to put in the trash.
They came through and took care of the issue but I know the feeling of having a PC down for so long. Try to do an advanced rma if you can, its the only way I go these days.

Yaboze · 02-27-10, 11:02 PM

I think it's more Nvidia than anything else. I had a 260 216 GTX die on me, got a 285 replacement, it would artifact or BSOD the system under stress. Got another 285 and it's been golden ever since. All BFG by the way.

I have a BFG 8800GTX in my AMD box and a 9600 GT as a on/off PhysX card and they have been fine. The 8800 GTX is from 2007 and still rocking. I used that card for over a year and a half. One of the best cards ever made, IMHO.

Kemo · 03-01-10, 01:56 PM

throw all that **** in an oven and hope for the best.

Bman212121 · 04-17-10, 10:52 AM

Update....

So I got another 8800GTX card back. Threw it into the pc, and didn't have SLI enabled right away. First time I went to enable SLI I noticed that I had flashing red while in a game. It was running okay, just not pretty to look at while the screen was going from normal to flashing red.

Tried a driver update, that didn't work. So I took the cards out and swapped their positions. That seemed to do the trick and everything was working. Played games on it for a few hours a couple of nights.

Tried to boot the pc this morning, horrible texture corruption on the BIOS screen, and windows BSOD. Took the older card out, same thing. Took the RMA card out and put the old card back in, and all is well again.

So... Maybe my old card is frying the RMA'ed cards somehow while using SLI mode. At this point I've already wasted way too much time and money to even care to make this work. I'll just keep cruising along with my old 8800GTX and throw this EVGA POS in the trash and be done with it.

**snowmanwithahat** · 04-17-10, 11:47 AM

That's a bummer man.

If you didn't have any serious attatchment to those cards I'd really recommend ebaying them once you get them all fixed and back from RMAing and get something newer and hopefully more reliable. You could just about get a 5850 (slightly used) or atleast a 275 (new) at almost no net cost.

Best of luck to you whatever you decide to do

Smee · 04-18-10, 07:31 AM

LOL, I thought this was a thread I started a while ago... almost the exact same title (well, except the end result)

http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=126427

Maybe they just don't like you?

Bman212121 · 04-20-10, 07:38 PM

Heh, yea what a coincidence.

And I guess they don't like me.

Also, someone moved my thread.

02-27-10, 07:18 AM	#1
Bman212121 Registered User Join Date: Jan 2006 Posts: 6,726	So I RMA'd my EVGA 8800GTX and they sent back a broken 8800GTX Thanks a lot EVGA. We'll just add that to the pile. EVGA 780i - Dead ~ 1 year 9600GT KO - Dead ~ 1 year 8800GTX - Dead ~ 2 years 8800GTX - Dead < 1 week XFX Ti4200 - Alive 6 years 6800GT - Alive 4 1/2 years 2 x 780i - Alive 1 1/2 years 8800GTX - Alive 2 1/2 years (Friends card)

02-27-10, 07:56 AM	#2
ragejg nV News Alumni Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Finger Lakes of Hell, NY Posts: 5,399	Re: So I RMA'd my EVGA 8800GTX and they sent back a broken 8800GTX Damn, I feel for ya. I haven't had a dead piece of equipment since an ATI 9500 over 7 years ago. Maybe you need to install some ESD mats or check the quality of grounding in your house. __________________ 2010-2011 Reviews: GTX 570 \| GTX 580 \| GTS 450 \| GTX 460 \| GTX 465 Pre-2010 Reviews: 6600 GT \| XMS 4400 DDR \| SilenX Cooler \| 6800 \| 5900 XT \| Personal Cinema \| 5900 NU ______________________________________________ Phenom II x6 1090t @ 4.0 ghz \| Asus M498TD-EVO Am3 SLI nForce 980a \| 2x EVGA GTX 560 SLI \| 2x4gb DDR3-1333 \| Antec EarthWatts EA650 PSU \| 60gb Mushkin Calisto Enhanced Sandforce SSD \| 2x WD2500KS RAID 0 \| Sunbeam Tuniq 3 case \| 24" Asus 19x10 LED LCD \| 26" Panasonic 720p TV \| Sidewinder X5 mouse \| Logitech MX5500 & Revolution mouse \| Altec Lansing 5.1 THX-Certified audio \| Win 7 Ultimate \| desk \| couch "Stars must die so that I may live. I... stepped out of a Supernova."

02-27-10, 08:13 AM	#3
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02-27-10, 10:22 AM	#4
CaptNKILL CUBE Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: PA, USA Posts: 18,844	Re: So I RMA'd my EVGA 8800GTX and they sent back a broken 8800GTX That's ridiculous man. I'd start using different power supply brands or something. Or get a UPS for your system to clean up power fluctuations or something. There has to be a reason that you lose so many components. I've only seen two dead video cards in the past 10 years, and only one was my full time card (Ti 4400 back in 2003 I think). __________________ ---- Primary Rig ---- CoolerMaster 690 II Advance - Gigabyte GA-EP45-UD3P - Intel Core 2 Quad Q9550 @ 4.0Ghz + Thermalright Ultra 120 Extreme 6GB DDR2 @ 942Mhz 5-5-5-20 1.9v (2x1Gb Wintec AMPX PC2-8500 & 2x2Gb G.Skill PC2-6400) - EVGA Geforce GTX 470 @ 750/1500/1850 (1.050v) Sparkle Geforce GTS 250 1Gb Low-Profile (Physx) - Crucial RealSSD C300 64Gb SSD - Seagate 7200.12 500Gb SATA - Seagate 7200.10 320Gb SATA ASUS VW266H 25.5" LCD - OCZ GameXStream 700W PSU - ASUS Xonar DX - Logitech Z-5500 5.1 Surround - Windows 7 Professional x64 ---- HTPC ---- Asus M3A78-EM 780G - AMD Athlon X2 5050e 45W @ 2.6Ghz - 2x2GB Kingston PC2-6400 DDR2 - Sparkle 350W PSU Seagate 7200.10 320Gb SATA - Seagate 7200.10 250Gb SATA - Athenatech A100BB.350 MicroATX Desktop - Creative X-Fi XtremeMusic

02-27-10, 12:29 PM	#6
Dr.Nick Registered User Join Date: Nov 2004 Posts: 1,044	Re: So I RMA'd my EVGA 8800GTX and they sent back a broken 8800GTX Had the same problem a while ago with my evga 8800gtx rma where I received a physically modified dead card -aka someone had taken a hacksaw to the metal heatsink cover- that a blind person would have known to put in the trash. They came through and took care of the issue but I know the feeling of having a PC down for so long. Try to do an advanced rma if you can, its the only way I go these days. __________________ i7 920@4.03\|asus p6t7ws\|6gb ocz\|gtx580oc sli\|x-fi fatality\|x25m+12tb\|enermax 1kw\|dell u3011 & 2405fpw

02-27-10, 11:02 PM	#7
Yaboze Registered User Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: United States Posts: 2,057	Re: So I RMA'd my EVGA 8800GTX and they sent back a broken 8800GTX I think it's more Nvidia than anything else. I had a 260 216 GTX die on me, got a 285 replacement, it would artifact or BSOD the system under stress. Got another 285 and it's been golden ever since. All BFG by the way. I have a BFG 8800GTX in my AMD box and a 9600 GT as a on/off PhysX card and they have been fine. The 8800 GTX is from 2007 and still rocking. I used that card for over a year and a half. One of the best cards ever made, IMHO.

03-01-10, 01:56 PM	#8
Kemo The Smite Join Date: Nov 2005 Posts: 217	Re: So I RMA'd my EVGA 8800GTX and they sent back a broken 8800GTX throw all that **** in an oven and hope for the best. __________________ Core2Quad Q9550 @ 3.61Ghz (425x8.5) evga 680i SLI (T1 Version) 8GB Corsair XMS PC8500 5-5-5-12 (SPD) DDR2@850Mhz 8800 GTX SLI Corsair 750W PSU

04-17-10, 10:52 AM	#9
Bman212121 Registered User Join Date: Jan 2006 Posts: 6,726	Re: So I RMA'd my EVGA 8800GTX and they sent back a broken 8800GTX Update.... So I got another 8800GTX card back. Threw it into the pc, and didn't have SLI enabled right away. First time I went to enable SLI I noticed that I had flashing red while in a game. It was running okay, just not pretty to look at while the screen was going from normal to flashing red. Tried a driver update, that didn't work. So I took the cards out and swapped their positions. That seemed to do the trick and everything was working. Played games on it for a few hours a couple of nights. Tried to boot the pc this morning, horrible texture corruption on the BIOS screen, and windows BSOD. Took the older card out, same thing. Took the RMA card out and put the old card back in, and all is well again. So... Maybe my old card is frying the RMA'ed cards somehow while using SLI mode. At this point I've already wasted way too much time and money to even care to make this work. I'll just keep cruising along with my old 8800GTX and throw this EVGA POS in the trash and be done with it.

04-17-10, 11:47 AM	#10
snowmanwithahat Snowy Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Michigan Posts: 973	Re: So I RMA'd my EVGA 8800GTX and they sent back a broken 8800GTX That's a bummer man. If you didn't have any serious attatchment to those cards I'd really recommend ebaying them once you get them all fixed and back from RMAing and get something newer and hopefully more reliable. You could just about get a 5850 (slightly used) or atleast a 275 (new) at almost no net cost. Best of luck to you whatever you decide to do __________________ ---Gaming Rig--- Q6600 3.4ghz (378x9) - 1.5v Gigabyte EP45-UD3P 8gb (4x2gb) OCZ Gold DDR2-800 (5-4-4-12) MSI+ASUS GTX 470 SLI Dell u3011 IPS Display HP 22" Auxiliary Monitor 256gb Western Digital Silicon Edge Blue SSD 5x2tb RAID-5 Array 750W PC P&C PSU Windows 7 Pro 64-Bit & Ubuntu 10.04 64-bit ---Gaming Laptop--- ASUS G53JW Core i7 740QM 16gb DDR3 Nvidia GTX 460m 1tb WD HDD 120gb Corsair SSD Join the NvNews Folding @ Home Team

04-18-10, 07:31 AM	#11
Smee Registered User Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: SoCal Posts: 1,099	Re: So I RMA'd my EVGA 8800GTX and they sent back a broken 8800GTX LOL, I thought this was a thread I started a while ago... almost the exact same title (well, except the end result) http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=126427 Maybe they just don't like you?

04-20-10, 07:38 PM	#12
Bman212121 Registered User Join Date: Jan 2006 Posts: 6,726	Re: So I RMA'd my EVGA 8800GTX and they sent back a broken 8800GTX Heh, yea what a coincidence. And I guess they don't like me. Also, someone moved my thread.