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My Video Card Exploded - Monday, September 10, 2007
Literally.
I have an EVGA GeForce 6600 LE, and it turned out to be one of the many pieces of hardware that was impacted by the shameful Capacitor Plague. So last week, as I was tranquilly surfing the web, I heard a loud pop come from inside my computer. This had occurred once before, with no visible effects, and things were still running normally, so I didn't make much of it until the next day when I couldn't even boot into Windows without the whole system crashing. Interestingly, I could boot into and use Linux just fine- I guess it has lower graphics requirements. An inspection of the insides of my computer revealed that three of the large capacitors on my graphics card had blown through their tops. How fun.
Fortunately the card had a lifetime warranty, and getting it RMA'd was a snap. EVGA customer support was very responsive and they shipped a replacement back to me within a couple days of receiving the defective card, and now my computer is running good as new. The capacitors on the new card look like they're a different brand, so hopefully they're not faulty as well. I guess we'll find out in about a year's time. ;)
I have an EVGA GeForce 6600 LE, and it turned out to be one of the many pieces of hardware that was impacted by the shameful Capacitor Plague. So last week, as I was tranquilly surfing the web, I heard a loud pop come from inside my computer. This had occurred once before, with no visible effects, and things were still running normally, so I didn't make much of it until the next day when I couldn't even boot into Windows without the whole system crashing. Interestingly, I could boot into and use Linux just fine- I guess it has lower graphics requirements. An inspection of the insides of my computer revealed that three of the large capacitors on my graphics card had blown through their tops. How fun.
Fortunately the card had a lifetime warranty, and getting it RMA'd was a snap. EVGA customer support was very responsive and they shipped a replacement back to me within a couple days of receiving the defective card, and now my computer is running good as new. The capacitors on the new card look like they're a different brand, so hopefully they're not faulty as well. I guess we'll find out in about a year's time. ;)