Just got an 8400 and was installing it tonight and had to reseat my heatsink a few times and after the 2nd time my net all of sudden didn't come on and didn't see lights in the back. Spent like 2 hours researching online about the problem but couldn't find anything.
So I decided to go look close to the Realtek chip on the board itself. And right next to the chip was 3 transistors. 2 of them bent and out of those 2, one of them had one of the legs completely broken off!
So I figured I hit it a few times with my re seating my GTX few times. But after putting the card in, it wasn't even close to the card! I have no idea what happened.
So my choices are..
RMA it.
Buy a PCI NIC.
Take it to my work(work at a PC/Printer/Typewriters Repair/Store) and my boss solders on loose AC power connectors on laptops all the time and was going to ask and see if I could just bring it in and see if he could solder it back on but wasn't sure if it possible to get it working again since its a bit different then an AC connector.
Help?
So I decided to go look close to the Realtek chip on the board itself. And right next to the chip was 3 transistors. 2 of them bent and out of those 2, one of them had one of the legs completely broken off!
So I figured I hit it a few times with my re seating my GTX few times. But after putting the card in, it wasn't even close to the card! I have no idea what happened.
So my choices are..
RMA it.
Buy a PCI NIC.
Take it to my work(work at a PC/Printer/Typewriters Repair/Store) and my boss solders on loose AC power connectors on laptops all the time and was going to ask and see if I could just bring it in and see if he could solder it back on but wasn't sure if it possible to get it working again since its a bit different then an AC connector.
Help?