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Well good news. Support says they wont be able to give me information about the board, but they can replace the card for $55. I guess i'll be sending it in. Thank you for your support.

Thank you for your reply. I've sent a request into support to see if they can identify the component on the board, we'll see how it goes. After looking around, it doesn't seem like msi offers repair for anything out of warranty, but i'll keep digging.

I would consider an rma, but unfortunately the backplate for the card had been cut. There's a small section, about 1cm x 1cm that has been removed. The reason for the cut i don't really know, but I assume it had something to do with the damage.

Hopefully this is in the right place. Recently I acquired a MSI GTX 1070 Gaming X from a friend who said it had stopped working. He thought he might have knocked off a capacitor due to the visible copper, but it looks as if the only real damage is to the resistor. The top of the resistor has...

Update: Just switched the color preset on the monitor from "multimedia" to "game". Now it runs at 60 hz. I have no idea why a color preset mode would limit the frame rate of the monitor, but at least I know what's wrong :).

I hope this is the correct thread for this question. Please notify me if this would belong in another thread. I have been searching for a few hours for a solution, but could find nothing on the matter. A few months ago, i purchased a dell P2815Q monitor. I know about the 30hz refresh rate, as...

I recently aquired a Visiontek radeon 5670 for my home server. I needed a decent, but not overpowered graphics card for video. Unfortunately, the card did not fit as the server only had a 1x pcie slot. I decided to cut the card to fit the server, and it worked beautifully :). Out of a random...

Have you tried the card in another computer? If that doesn't solve the problem, i would just try to rma the card.

The first thing I recommend you upgrade is the processor. Your current processor's performance is about the equivalent of a core 2 duo. I recommend an A8-6600k, which is about the equivalent of an Phenom II. If you have the money, and want the pest processor for your computer, get an A10-6800k.

This error code indicated that a fatal hardware error has occurred. I have had this error before and the culprit was faulty ram. Try using another stick of ram if you have one, or if you have multiple sticks of ram, try one at a time and see which ones cause the error. This error can be caused...

I recently purchased a Supermicro 1021M-T2RV server for a good price online. I thought it would be an interesting project to convert the server into a workstation of sorts. The server has a Supermicro H8DMR-I2 motherboard with 2 pcie 4x slots, which are connected to 2 pcie 8x riser boards. I was...