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Customer Returns on Graphics cards
- Thread starter DrSpanky
- Start date
- Joined
- Oct 11, 2002
from what store?
have they been tested to work, or are they as is? refurbished??
there are dozens of reasons to return hardware....i personally would buy them unless I knew they worked.
have they been tested to work, or are they as is? refurbished??
there are dozens of reasons to return hardware....i personally would buy them unless I knew they worked.
- Joined
- Sep 30, 2001
- Location
- England, UK
I would guess alot of customer returns will be from people that don't know what they are doing and assume its not working correctly, as they havent installed it properly. With something like that though it really will be just luck, cross your fingers and you may get lucky with a couple of them.
-Chris
-Chris
- Joined
- Jun 9, 2001
- Location
- Montreal, Quebec, Canada
You might get the occasional one that is perfectly find, but if you work in the industry, you should arleardy know expect a fair ammount of product that fails after a short period of time or that is DOA.
- Joined
- Apr 2, 2002
- Location
- Sheffield, UK
The gf3 ti500 I had very nearly got sent back when I discovered that running it at any resolution over 800x600 gave a crapy, blurred image quality. I found out it was something to do with a low pass filter on the output, that could be fixed by removing 6 small resistors from the board. The mod took 5 minutes to do, the only tools needed were a pair of needle nosed pliers, and it worked fine at 1280x1024 and higher after that. details of the mod at http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.html?i=1577&p=5
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- Apr 2, 2002
- Location
- Sheffield, UK
my mistake...its capacitors that need to be removed, not resistors.
- Joined
- Jul 9, 2002
- Location
- Ireland
so , how did they turn out?
- Thread Starter
- #12
i have got the cards 3 of them seem to run at desktop and run 3dmark with no errors that with my extra 80mm fan blowing on them
all of the cards fans have packed up they either dont work at all or dont spin freely
the others
2x dont post
1x has strips going down the screen
4x have minor grapical errors when in the bios and dont work correctly
all of the cards fans have packed up they either dont work at all or dont spin freely
the others
2x dont post
1x has strips going down the screen
4x have minor grapical errors when in the bios and dont work correctly
- Joined
- Feb 26, 2003
1x stip - bad memory liekly
4x - try flashing a new bios to them?
4x - try flashing a new bios to them?
- Thread Starter
- #14
ive tryed flashing the ones with errors and had no luck
i found one was only registering 48mb video memory you i thought 2 of the memory chips were dead so i took off the heat sinks to see if there was any silly reason they werent working.
but i wasnt careful enougth and broke a resistor
so i used the heat sinks on another video card.
it also looks like the fans rusted :S
look like poor storage when being posted as there was some moisture under the fans
i found one was only registering 48mb video memory you i thought 2 of the memory chips were dead so i took off the heat sinks to see if there was any silly reason they werent working.
but i wasnt careful enougth and broke a resistor
so i used the heat sinks on another video card.it also looks like the fans rusted :S
look like poor storage when being posted as there was some moisture under the fans
- Joined
- Feb 26, 2003
oh well - u win some you lose some!
