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So, my two sons both have eVGA cards in their PCs. On Sunday one of my sons came down and told me that he thought his video card was bad. Sure enough, his 8800 GTS 640MB had verticle red/blue lines and symbol character screen dump during POST. It would only boot into Windows in 4 bit color (yes 4) at what looks like something around 320x200.
Then, this afternoon (3 days later) my older son's 8800GTX started with the same artifact issues. However, the 8800GTX will boot into normal windows resolution (with artifacts everywhere). So, both the 8800 GTS and GTX will boot, but there are screen artifacts even during POST and both cards drop a lot of symbols and other code on the screen during the POST. My first thought was an Nvidia driver update. However, I checked and no driver updates had been done (neither of them have admin privs anyway) and I also checked Windows update and nothing there either.
Both GPUs were puchased in 2007 a few months apart. Total cost was about $1000 for both cards. Both of these cards were purchased from Newegg.com with an eVGA lifetime warranty (-AR models). I specifically went with the -AR models due to the warranty and with eVGA instead of BFG or XFX because of the excellent reputation for customer service I read about on their forums.
Unfortunately, I do not think either of my boys remembered to register them online. It is my sincere hope that eVGA will honor it. I still have one of the boxes and I can find nothing inside the box back in 2007 that stated they had to register to get the lifetime warranty.
Here are the models:
EVGA 768-P2-N831-AR GeForce 8800 GTX 768MB Purchased 01/28/2007
EVGA 640-P2-N821-AR GeForce 8800 GTS 640MB Purchased 07/31/2007
I still have the original invoices in my name and the street address on the invoice matches the account I created back then to ask questions about the cards on the eVGA forums. Has anyone else had good experiences with eVGA in a similar situation?
Thanks!
Then, this afternoon (3 days later) my older son's 8800GTX started with the same artifact issues. However, the 8800GTX will boot into normal windows resolution (with artifacts everywhere). So, both the 8800 GTS and GTX will boot, but there are screen artifacts even during POST and both cards drop a lot of symbols and other code on the screen during the POST. My first thought was an Nvidia driver update. However, I checked and no driver updates had been done (neither of them have admin privs anyway) and I also checked Windows update and nothing there either.
Both GPUs were puchased in 2007 a few months apart. Total cost was about $1000 for both cards. Both of these cards were purchased from Newegg.com with an eVGA lifetime warranty (-AR models). I specifically went with the -AR models due to the warranty and with eVGA instead of BFG or XFX because of the excellent reputation for customer service I read about on their forums.
Unfortunately, I do not think either of my boys remembered to register them online. It is my sincere hope that eVGA will honor it. I still have one of the boxes and I can find nothing inside the box back in 2007 that stated they had to register to get the lifetime warranty.
Here are the models:
EVGA 768-P2-N831-AR GeForce 8800 GTX 768MB Purchased 01/28/2007
EVGA 640-P2-N821-AR GeForce 8800 GTS 640MB Purchased 07/31/2007
I still have the original invoices in my name and the street address on the invoice matches the account I created back then to ask questions about the cards on the eVGA forums. Has anyone else had good experiences with eVGA in a similar situation?
Thanks!
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