Anyone buy a Gigabytee GTX275 on this week only? A cautionary tail.

[Bigsy]

Well I bought one (ironically to replace a faultly 4870) trouble is it will only give me a monitor signal 50% of the time on a cold boot, and never on a warm boot. After a bit of looking around on the net it seems that this card is just generally shagged from the factory:

* http://forums.overclockers.com.au/showthread.php?t=798328
* http://csd.dficlub.org/forum/showthread.php?p=78035
* http://www.hardforum.com/showthread.php?p=1034425640
* http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/forum-replies-archive.cfm/1253662.html

If your thinking of buying one don't! I'm currently sitting here with 2 faulty cards wondering what the hell to do.....I'll probably wait to see if gigabyte want to send me an updated bios (there isn't one out at the moment) thats even if it can be fixed by a bios update....then see what OCUK can do for me if they can't.

 

[Bigsy]

Heard nothing back from gigabyte today so will be asking ocuk for an RMA.

 

[Bigsy]

mel d that is exactly the problem, I thought it was just a signal issue, but my card also thinks its dual display when it isn't, obvisluy picking the wrong one on boot etc.

I can drag things off the right of the desktop..on to an extra screen I don't have!

Going to raise it with ocuk tonight and get this thing RMA'd.

 

[Bigsy]

My card went back for a refund, totally ridiculous a card went out with a fault as obvious as this. Lost all faith in gigabyte products.

 

[Bigsy]

Yeah thats pretty much the same issues as with the 275, sounds like RMA time m8. Interestingly ocuk don't seem to have pulled the 260 from the shop like the 275 but reading other forums it does seem to suffer the same issues.