News Bug Impedes RTX 4090 Founders Edition GPU From Working

[A Fist Full of Chips]

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:

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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".​

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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.

All it would take was this to have been a Hopper H100 and the circle would be complete...

 

[Bluoper]

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

It's possible whatever factory made this 4090 just thought it was defective and an employee tried to sell it on the side for a bit of money.

 

[ZeroDayWild]

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.


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

no, actually i was quite sad that spikey, razor and Godzilla died. they where my friends.

 

[ZeroDayWild]

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

its still an on going problem lol