285 caught on fire..

[Yjani]

As the title suggests, my faithful Zotac Amp! 285 caught on fire yesterday...scared the bejeezus out of me Had a look inside the casing to find quite a large chunk of the pcb burnt out. Now being with Nvidia for so long it really pained me. I had bought the card from a well known auction site with no original purchase receipt so RMAs out of the question.

Have bitten the bullet and gone RED!! A brand spanking new Asus 5870 is winging its way to me. Although this is not facinating news to some with people getting there Fermi cards, but is a pretty big deal for me owning my first piece of ATI hardware.

Lesson learned i guess. If you are to buy 2nd hand, id have to say try and get the original receipt shipped with your card, or you could be a certain creek without a paddle

 

[d_brennen]

Hard luck mate. Don't really see why you'd see it as some sort of defection, you don't owe NV anything

 

[Ace Modder]

Have you contacted Zotac? They may RMA it without prooof of purchase.

 

[Yjani]

I guess i could try. They can only say no. Was very gutted when it happened.

 

[Vir]

Yeah I'd just try to RMA it if I were you You can always see what happens...

 

[mast3r]

time for an upgrade.?

 

[straxusii]

Well at least no-one will suggest the oven trick for this one

 

[Frozennova]

Latest news: nvidia make 2xx series cards catch fire to prove 4xx series dont run hot.

 

[mymorph]

If you are to buy 2nd hand, id have to say try and get the original receipt shipped with your card, or you could be a certain creek without a paddle

good advice. i didnt with my gtx 260.. goes and checks the battery in smoke alarm!

 

[Vir]

good advice. i didnt with my gtx 260.. goes and checks the battery in smoke alarm!

Don't worry, it's probably one in a million


*touches wood*

 

[reiyushin]

Latest news: nvidia make 2xx series cards catch fire to prove 4xx series dont run hot.

 

[4T5]

my first piece of ATI hardware.

Walk towards the light my son, Let the Light warm you.

Bit disappointed there's no picks of the flames though, I got pics of the smoke when my PSU went up.

 

[p4radox]

Anyone remember the thread about 4 or 5 years ago where someone's MSI motherboard set on fire? That was pretty funny, especially as MSI refused to accept an RMA IIRC.

 

[imamosher]

I knew they ran hot but Jesus!

 

[555BUK]

I guess there is another card that runs as hot as Fermi.

 

[WTFShelley]

Where you using the recalled driver which turned the fan off?



oh and 'Pics or didnt happen'

 

[snaggster]

Could be something in this... I was playing metro2033 earlyer and the fan on my gtx260 kept spining up and slowing, rapidy. I exited the game and checked, the gpu was 102oc! Never normaily goes higher than 70.. I was running 197.13 driver... Now trying 197.45 and all seems good... fingers crossed.

 

[Yjani]

I had been using the brand new 197s that just come out. Wasnt even doing gaming at the time, just some FLAC conversions i think, so nothing too strenuous. Anyway as i said, it really put me off Nvidia as i had been planning on the EVGA 480s when they finally came available.

So decided on impulse to go Red and bagged the Asus 5870

 

[dmxdex2020]

Man your lucky it didnt do any other damage to your system. If that had of happened i would be taking nvidia for a lot of money if it destroyed my whole system.

 

[Yjani]

Yes was very lucky. I had an old Gainward 7800gt laying in my clutter cupboard and it did fire up, thinking that it was my Enermax PSU that fried it, but turned out negative. Certainly looks like something short circuited.