Soldato
Recently I put an Arctic Cooling Twin Turbo Pro on my 5850. When I put it back in the card had power (fans were spinning), but no output.
I took the cooler off, put the stock heatsink plate back on (after modifying it to allow the heatpipes to pass over), and cleaned off the old thermal paste (noticed some had got around the chip area) and tried again.
This time the card was fine, and has been fine for about 2 weeks. This morning, I went to fire up my computer and nothing on screen. I checked all the power connections etc, then removed the GPU and used the onboard GPU - suddenly, we've got video, and the system POSTs and Boots.
Therefore GPU is dead (tried it again, and still nothing, so can only assume GPU is dead - since I'm writing this on said PC, using onboard GPU).
So question is, do Asus do a non-warranty return? Would they just tell me to **** off and buy a new one? Do splits etc? Obviously can't RMA as the stock cooler has been modified, so what to do?
Do I just mark it up as experience, and try and sell the card as non-working on a well known auction site?
Main issue is, I'm short of money at the moment, so can't afford to buy even a 5770, let alone a replacement 5850.
Screws up my watercooling expansion plans too...
Thanks for any advice
Simon
I took the cooler off, put the stock heatsink plate back on (after modifying it to allow the heatpipes to pass over), and cleaned off the old thermal paste (noticed some had got around the chip area) and tried again.
This time the card was fine, and has been fine for about 2 weeks. This morning, I went to fire up my computer and nothing on screen. I checked all the power connections etc, then removed the GPU and used the onboard GPU - suddenly, we've got video, and the system POSTs and Boots.
Therefore GPU is dead (tried it again, and still nothing, so can only assume GPU is dead - since I'm writing this on said PC, using onboard GPU).
So question is, do Asus do a non-warranty return? Would they just tell me to **** off and buy a new one? Do splits etc? Obviously can't RMA as the stock cooler has been modified, so what to do?
Do I just mark it up as experience, and try and sell the card as non-working on a well known auction site?
Main issue is, I'm short of money at the moment, so can't afford to buy even a 5770, let alone a replacement 5850.
Screws up my watercooling expansion plans too...
Thanks for any advice
Simon