Hello, Its me again of course, Right now it is 1:12 AM, and I am bored out of my mind, On this Windows 7 Based Laptop. So what do I do, of course I blog. I wanted to Post this article a quite time ago, umm maybe around November 23rd but never had the chance. [...]
Hello, Its me again of course, Right now it is 1:12 AM, and I am bored out of my mind, On this Windows 7 Based Laptop. So what do I do, of course I blog. I wanted to Post this article a quite time ago, umm maybe around November 23rd but never had the chance. So here goes.
On a Wednesday, behold a new video card came in the mail, a nVidia BFG 9800 GTX+ OC, Was so excited opened up the box, to be witnessed with an awesome, yet powerful card. I quickly held the power button on my PC, and Opened it up. The video card required to 6 Pin, PCI-e power adapters, I had them, one of
them was able to reach it, The Other one was stuck in between the Power supply and the Motherboard tray. I removed the Power Supply, got the wire out of the way, and was ready to go.
I took out the Old card, Popped in the new one, Put both PCI-e pins into the Card, Press the Power Button as fast as I could, the PC had turned on, could smell the scent of the new video card, and the fresh breeze coming out of the fan, 20 seconds later the PC turned off?!?!?! How?! Why?! were the only things going through my head. Tried removing the 6 pin adapters, switching them off, putting one in and not the other, Tried thousands of possible solutions. all turned out unreliable and died. Put back in the old card and the pc would still turn off every 20 seconds, I thought it could be the motherboard, or that both video card fried.. No… I tried the old card on another computer it worked fine. I tried putting the other card in my brother Pc, its new big it wouldn’t fit, then I left no card in my pc and it would still restart, my motherboard was also messed up. So… about a day later my cousin came down, we tried the new card in his computer, yes his case was big enough to fit the card. So we plugged it in, etc… and the PC wouldn’t post, meaning it was stuck right before it could boot into the bios, we tried his 8800 GTX and it worked perfectly fine.
So I contacted the company where I bought the card from, and they said they will send me a new one after I send this one back. So, I got the box ready for this one and sent it. It was on its way… Oh yeah forgot to mention my Power Supply is Died Also. Ok so what did I have with me, hmm lets see a Died Motherboard, A died Power Supply, and an Empty case. That weekend I got a box, packed up the GA-EP45-DS3R to be sent into RMA, Thats out of the way phewf…
Then I later on Bought a new Power Supply, a Thermal Take 700 Watt Modular Design, awesome. I checked everyday the tracking for my Video Card, It was in a USP Office, a city away, turns out they couldn’t find my address, and sent it all the way back, what dumba**es, so anyways, the guy told me he received it back, sent it and it came back the following Monday. So, Later I contacted Gigabyte to see the status of my RMA, and they told me it is in repair and I should receive a tracking email Friday, it was Wednesday. So, I waited and still nothing contacted them the same day, and they now said Wednesday.
So, I was like ok, I was like if I am getting all this stuff might as well get a new case, So I did, I bought a Cooler Master CM 690, the guy went out to ship it 10 minutes later. This was this Tuesday, and the next day I am hoping to get tracking for my Motherboard, turns out I haven’t, Called them up again, they said it is in their shipping department and I should receive an email soon. The tracking for the Case says, Monday, it is Super Early Thursday, and I am typing this, what I’m I looking forward to… Motherboard & Case Coming Monday, and a computer working flawlessly.
It is now 1:48 AM. and this just made up my boredness… if thats a word. Guess, what all me doing this week watching more House!. Anyways Merry Christmas to some and Happy Holidays wish the best for you all.
PS. Update your EFi-X’s!
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