6850 died? Maybe? I dunno...

FireBean

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I have two 6850's that I recently started to water cool. I had to since the fans were dieing and visionshit gave me the bird on a warranty. I already had a loops for my CPU and said why the hell not?

I was playing Rage (I know, please don't flame) when the game the whole system froze. No graphic glitches, no odd artifacts on the screen and it was running very cool at about 44c. Rage does not use crossfire, so the other card was not doing anything. Now, I rebooted the computer and it will not power the screen on. If I plug into the other card, it works just fine. I have not tried using the first PCIe slot yet because it's a major pain in the ass and it consumes a lot of time to try and swap a component out now. Also the video card will not show up in Device Manager either. Any Ideas people?

*NOTE* If you have a Visiontek card and you do folding or bitcoin with it, DO NOT TELL THEM! It will void the warranty, along with furmark. now I got two companies that will not honor a warranty, Visiontek and PNY. F**kers
 
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I already solved it. PCIe slot died. Time to call in a warranty. First time with MSI...
 
They won't honor a warranty for bitcoining? I would have thought they would be more likely to void a warranty for putting a water block on it.
 
I think that was a 'no warranty, so I'll do it anyway' scenario - it wasn't why the warranty was void in the first place (I'm assuming).
 
I think that was a 'no warranty, so I'll do it anyway' scenario - it wasn't why the warranty was void in the first place (I'm assuming).
you got it...

5min phone call with Msi and got a rma. I hope they replace it with a 990x :D
 
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