GTX280 Cream Crackered

[mark_a_scott]

Got home this evening looking forward to a session on NFS Undercover but alas I was treated to a corrupted screen in Vista. Tried restarting a few times and after 10 minutes the display corrupted or went blue

Fished out the reinstall DVD and managed to get the system stable under VGA but as soon as I put the nVidia drivers on, corruption again

I am now typing this under the VGA driver at 1600x1200 and no chance of any gaming for a while. No changes except moving my PC downstairs 3 weeks ago and having it fold for F@H

Is the card indeed Donald Ducked or is there another explanation?

[mightymouse]

is it still under warranty? why dont just rma it

[GoNz0]

looks like the vram is shot, had a duff one myself as a rma replacement for a dead card..

[mark_a_scott]

Was a BFGtech OC if that makes any difference? Do you think I was over stressing it?

[BartmanTaz]

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[GoNz0]

shouldnt be, mines the bfg h2oc, 1st one died, 2nd one arrived with full screen corruption !

in other words mine never got really hot due to water cooling, so no explanation

anyway its got a lifetime warranty, so not all is lost, apart from a potential xmas without a video card, now that sucks !

get the rma started asap, they might be able to get one out in time.

[mark_a_scott]

Have emailed them. Will they do "forward" replacement or will I need to fork out for a cheap as chips card to tide me over?

[GoNz0]

they wont advance rma unless they send u a duff card as a replacement like they did me, then they got told from HQ in the USA to advance me one ASAP for sending me a duff card !

[digit]

Have emailed them. Will they do "forward" replacement or will I need to fork out for a cheap as chips card to tide me over?

My RMA turnaround with BFG Tech was a week, a faultly 6800 Ultra --> 7800 GS!

That was last year, doubt the service would have got any worse since!