News Bug Impedes RTX 4090 Founders Edition GPU From Working

[Admin]

A repair shop has shared a video documenting the fault finding and repair of an RTX 4090, which somehow got a winged insect under the AD102 GPU.

Bug Impedes RTX 4090 Founders Edition GPU From Working : Read more

 

[The Historical Fidelity]

Well, I’ll be dipped…now I’ve seen everything

 

[bit_user]

OMG, how much did it cost for such a repair? I expect someone lost money on this (aside from possible youtube ad revenue, if this video becomes insanely popular).

 

[ZeroDayWild]

an insect(s) never broke my computer. however Lizards will often get into the fuse box of my air conditioning unit and get zapped when the lizard bridged the contact points with there body,

 

[bit_user]

an insect(s) never broke my computer. however Lizards will often get into the fuse box of my air conditioning unit and get zapped when the lizard bridged the contact points with there body,

Happens "often" and not worth doing anything to prevent?

 

[ZeroDayWild]

Happens "often" and not worth doing anything to prevent?

wasn't my problem. i was a child.

 

[kkthebeast]

Crazy, I assumed all cards where boot tested before shipping. Definitely seems like an issue that should never have reached the consumer. But hopefully the guy got an absolute steal (all in).

 

[umeng2002_2]

I couldn't believe it when that was found to be the issue.

 

[hannibal]

Ah a bug!

 

[schwaggins]

Crazy, I assumed all cards where boot tested before shipping. Definitely seems like an issue that should never have reached the consumer. But hopefully the guy got an absolute steal (all in).

I suspect this was sold as a factory 2nd by mistake by whoever binned it

 

[Baggins2287]

I'm surprised nobody has noted that this failure mode is precisely where the term "bug" originated from.

 

[3ogdy]

What I think would bug me more than this is the fact that cards this expensive don't get basic testing before they're packaged.
I mean, I know they make a lot of them but still - shouldn't each card be tested for image output?

 

[King_V]

"Man, this defective card is really bugging me!"

Yep, yep, I'll show myself out now.

 

[coromonadalix]

do we love to play with words here loll take this with a pinch of salt

 

[Toadster88]

oh man, that would really bug me!

 

[jkhoward]

Looks like a booger

 

[vertuallinsanity]

an insect(s) never broke my computer. however Lizards will often get into the fuse box of my air conditioning unit and get zapped when the lizard bridged the contact points with there body,

Gross. Unsavory, even. Especially when you factor subs into what you wrote. Hope everything is okay with your pet lizard..

 

[Tonet666]

I'm surprised nobody has noted that this failure mode is precisely where the term "bug" originated from.

Yes when a computer was the whole room. 🤣

 

[cryoburner]

The customer who contracted NorthWestRepair for the graphics card fix explained that they had a ‘brand new’ Nvidia GeForce RTX 4090 Founders Edition, which they bought at a ‘resale place’ with no warranty.

This was likely some grey-market piece of hardware. Considering the 4090 only came out a year ago, any new card should have been covered under a full manufacturer's warranty. So if the card had been purchased new from a retailer and found to be nonfunctional (or failed after a short time), the original purchaser would have had it replaced under warranty. It seems unlikely that they would pawn it off to some "resale place" for a fraction of the card's value when they could instead have it replaced with a functional card worth significantly more. Even if they returned it to the store, I can't imagine the store would have taken a loss on a $1600 DOA card rather than returning it to the manufacturer.

So this might have been in some bin of reject cards at the factory, that somehow "fell off a truck" and ended up getting sold by someone looking to make some extra profit on the side.

an insect(s) never broke my computer. however Lizards will often get into the fuse box of my air conditioning unit and get zapped when the lizard bridged the contact points with there body,

Have you tried releasing snakes inside the air conditioning unit to hunt the lizards?

 

[rc1000]

A repair shop has shared a video documenting the fault finding and repair of an RTX 4090, which somehow got a winged insect under the AD102 GPU.

Bug Impedes RTX 4090 Founders Edition GPU From Working : Read more

This is shady as hell. A 4090 would still be under warranty.

 

[rc1000]

Crazy, I assumed all cards where boot tested before shipping. Definitely seems like an issue that should never have reached the consumer. But hopefully the guy got an absolute steal (all in).

I didn't. This is fishy as hell. A brand new 4090 and you don't send in for warranty work, bull. This is probably some reject that was stolen from the MFG.

 

[bit_user]

I'm surprised nobody has noted that this failure mode is precisely where the term "bug" originated from.

Yes, I thought that and then even checked the article to see if that point was noted.

For full context, here's the etymology from Wikipedia:

The terms "bug" and "debugging" are popularly attributed to Admiral Grace Hopper in the 1940s. While she was working on a Mark II computer at Harvard University, her associates discovered a moth stuck in a relay and thereby impeding operation, whereupon she remarked that they were "debugging" the system. However, the term "bug", in the sense of "technical error", dates back at least to 1878 and Thomas Edison who describes the "little faults and difficulties" of mechanical engineering as "Bugs".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debugging#Etymology
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I was unaware of the Thomas Edison reference. Somehow, it seems unlikely that he coined it, so perhaps the history goes back even further.

 

[newtechldtech]

I dont believe this crap , it is 100% staged .

 

[newtechldtech]

Crazy, I assumed all cards where boot tested before shipping. Definitely seems like an issue that should never have reached the consumer. But hopefully the guy got an absolute steal (all in).

They are ! and this movie is staged , he put the bug himself to get more views from this repair.

 

[RandomWan]

I wonder what the FDA minimums are for insect parts in a GPU.