Its fried itself.

[fastwunz]

Guys i now talk to you from Windows Safe mode after an enthralling experience that went along these lin

Little Brother: 'Dude what are those red dots down your screen'
Me: Shutup mate, thats not even funny - hang on i gotta put the pizza in
Little Brother: No seriously, look at your screen
Me: Holy freakin mother of pants covered in poo - my gpu ram has died.

So, my Graphics card ram has decided to shaft itself, my card was running completely stock and yet, it dies. Its a Geforce 8800GTS640 BTW.

Im completely and utterly gutted. I bought it from new like 8months ago from OCUK. Time for an RMA? ive reseated the card, redone drivers etc. gutted, gutted, gutted gutted.

 

[TheMagic1an]

RMA. What make is it?.

 

[fastwunz]

Its a Leadtek mate - gutted, gutted, gutted.

 

[TheCenturion]

not sure leadtek support is that good

 

[TheMagic1an]

I've never dealt with Leadtek, so i'm not sure how long the RMA will take. They might need to give you a different card since they stopped making the 8800GTS 640.

 

[fastwunz]

ah i see - well ill send it back to OCUK first and see what they say.

 

[TheMagic1an]

If you have to send it to OCUK then it wont take long to RMA since their very quick.

 

[silversurfer]

ocuk is good so you are lucky it failed before 12 months

 

[gurusan]

Yeah its still under warranty with OcUK....contact them about a RMA

 

[Monkeynut]

Look at the bright side, they might not have any 8800GTS640mb cards left, and have to send you a 4850!

 

[Ben M]

Look at the bright side, they might not have any 8800GTS640mb cards left, and have to send you a 4850!

it'll be an nvidia card i'm pretty sure

tell us what you get to replace it =]

 

[marktime]

Pretty sure standard Leadtek warranty is 2 years anyhow.

 

[TheMagic1an]

yeah, it says on some of the leadtek cards

-2yr Warranty with Leadtek/OcUK.

So i guess OCUK deal with the RMA's for them.

 

[fastwunz]

god i hope so - im sending it to them now - not sure i want to wait for like a month to get a replacement though. Not fair!

 

[Kelt]

god i hope so - im sending it to them now - not sure i want to wait for like a month to get a replacement though. Not fair!

Tell me about it, I've had my 42" plazzy away for repair for 5 weeks now, and watching stuff on my ancient, relegated to bedroom duties, Sony 28" CRT ain't funny!

 

[fastwunz]

well im waiting for my RMA number as we speak. It tried calling them this morning (about 09:45) and the automated voice said 'you are at queue position 1' - yet it said this for about 12 mins!

 

[ACESHIGH]

replacement will likely be something like a 9600GT, 8800GT or 9800GT

 

[fastwunz]

yeh thats what i thought mate - i may just buy a 4870 tbh - anyone know of any good computer shops near Newbury Berkshire lol (sry OCuk lol