Posts by The Pro

Alright well, I guess i will have to contact evga. I'll either send them an email tonight or call them tomorrow. Thank you all for your help.

Just an update on what I've done so far, with nothing being successful: -tried 5 different drivers including 2 beta -reseated gpu -tried a different pci slot -tried different psu -reset bios and all possible setting that i can think of...

Quote:Originally Posted by DOOOLY All replacements from Evga are refurbished, it sounds like the card is faulty.So what do I do now? Send it back?

A few weeks ago I sent my gtx 480 to evga for a rma and today I got the replacement, which is also a gtx 480 but it doesn't look like its new, probably refurbished. I installed it with all the drivers and I get nvlddmkm.sys bsods all the...

Well it is official now, my gtx 480 is dead. RIP. It was such a good card. Thank you everyone who helped.

Quote:Originally Posted by AMC They will not accept it with a flashed bios. I definitely wouldn't. People overclock. That's why the original bios has a limit. But once you take that limit off, it's hard to do anything..... I think...

Quote:Originally Posted by xenomorph113 sounds like when i did a similar H60 mod on my 570's, both of them blew the VRMs after a few months of use (insufficient cooling on my part ) i would contact EVGA for warranty (unless the...

Quote:Originally Posted by splinterize EVGA dont mind you removing the stock cooler. If the card is not physically modded they will take it back. They will replace it with whatever they think is equivalent to your GTX 480 (something...

Quote:Originally Posted by Kolmain You could possibly RMA it- dunno if it'll work but I agree with the above, you may have blown em' since "The Mod" only cools the GPU itself...Do you think they will accept it back? I am pretty sure...

Yes i did have the stock vrm cooler but i had 120mm fan cooling it. And i did take a look but i could not see anything that seems not right or burned. I have an evga 480 btw. I can take some pics if that would help.