Rma advice

[chrstahl89]

Hey,
I recently purchased a 470gtx off eBay. I know, I know but they don't make the card anymore so not many options. The seller had sent the card to ASUS to be inspected and it came back with a sheet of clean health. When I received the card it did not work blue screen every time I tried to enable sli or every time I booted the card alone. So I RMAed the card, ASUS gets it says it's fine and mails it back. The card still doesn't work. So I flashed the BIOS to that of my evga 470gtx they are both reference pcb so I really didn't see the harm. Now everything seems to be working fine. The question is I had already contacted ASUS again so I can send them the card back or is there a way to check the stability of this card with my new BIOS and deem it fixed?

 

[mightymaxio]

Once you flashed it with an EVGA bios or did anything with flashing you voided the warranty and its no longer ASUS's fault if anything happens to the card.

 

[xtc28]

Whoa now ^ not exactly true you can always flash it back.

 

[xtc28]

OCCT is a decent program to test stability

 

[chrstahl89]

Once you flashed it with an EVGA bios or did anything with flashing you voided the warranty and its no longer ASUS's fault if anything happens to the card.

Since ASUS will mail me a different card the moment this one is in the mail...I'm not really worried. And yes I can flash it back in two seconds.

 

[chrstahl89]

Personally after running OCCT for 2 hours with no errors I am ready to call it stable. This thing has already been sent to ASUS twice for them to deem it is perfectly fine. I really don't feel like getting jacked around again when it's obviously a bios incompatible issue.

 

[xtc28]

Make it so!!