- Joined
- Jan 31, 2002
- Location
- Out looking for ET... in IL, USA
ALERT - Gainward
I just wanted to let you all know how my experiance with gainward has been over the last 9 months with my gf4 4200. I got a card with the "pink screen" problem a while back. I RMA'ed it to gainward to have a better chance at getting a card that was fixed b/c it had already been 3 months and newegg would only do an exchange also. This was while i was in college and I was with out a video card for 3 weeks waiting for a new card. No emails or anything about status from them ever. well my second card worked for about another 3 months till about a month ago. It also started to make my screen freeze. I called them one afternoon and they when the RMA department answered they first off said "Hey there we are going to lunch now so call back later." click. well finally i got through to them. I had already done this before so i had their info and address. that was good because they never offored to tell me their address. well i sent my card off and 3 weeks later i was mad that i had yet to recieve my new card. I called them and they said here is the tacking number. Look it up yourself. I was like thanks for helping me. well i looked and they sent it to my old address for when i was in school. they told me to put a letter in the box on where to send the new card. They never even looked to see if it was the same when i even told them on the phone. Well they told me i would get another card rushed to me by some day. Well it came a day later than that. Mow i have had this card for a week and my PC is locking again. over that last month my pc ran for weeks at a time on the other video card so i know there is nothing else wrong with my system. Well I thought i would share this story for all of you looking to buy gainward cards. just wanted you to know what you would be getting in to. Tomorrow I am going to loop 3dmark for a little while to see if it locks up. If it starts to again i am going to try to get another model card. I would LOVE my money back and i am going to try but i bet it will never happen. This whole thing has changed me away from gainward for life. Hope you all have better luck than me.
Was wondering if any one has ever recieved money or another item from gainward or any other manufacture. looking for advice on how to handle this very possible situation i might be in really soon. Thanks for any advice.
Heezer
I just wanted to let you all know how my experiance with gainward has been over the last 9 months with my gf4 4200. I got a card with the "pink screen" problem a while back. I RMA'ed it to gainward to have a better chance at getting a card that was fixed b/c it had already been 3 months and newegg would only do an exchange also. This was while i was in college and I was with out a video card for 3 weeks waiting for a new card. No emails or anything about status from them ever. well my second card worked for about another 3 months till about a month ago. It also started to make my screen freeze. I called them one afternoon and they when the RMA department answered they first off said "Hey there we are going to lunch now so call back later." click. well finally i got through to them. I had already done this before so i had their info and address. that was good because they never offored to tell me their address. well i sent my card off and 3 weeks later i was mad that i had yet to recieve my new card. I called them and they said here is the tacking number. Look it up yourself. I was like thanks for helping me. well i looked and they sent it to my old address for when i was in school. they told me to put a letter in the box on where to send the new card. They never even looked to see if it was the same when i even told them on the phone. Well they told me i would get another card rushed to me by some day. Well it came a day later than that. Mow i have had this card for a week and my PC is locking again. over that last month my pc ran for weeks at a time on the other video card so i know there is nothing else wrong with my system. Well I thought i would share this story for all of you looking to buy gainward cards. just wanted you to know what you would be getting in to. Tomorrow I am going to loop 3dmark for a little while to see if it locks up. If it starts to again i am going to try to get another model card. I would LOVE my money back and i am going to try but i bet it will never happen. This whole thing has changed me away from gainward for life. Hope you all have better luck than me.
Was wondering if any one has ever recieved money or another item from gainward or any other manufacture. looking for advice on how to handle this very possible situation i might be in really soon. Thanks for any advice.
Heezer
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