Did the RMA guys "bake" my GPU?

[3DVagabond]

Whatever??? I'm glad you're glad but..... You're taking this personally, aren't you..?
I do not appreciate the charectar assassination attempt either. I've never sold anything that I've ever baked. 3 cards total and I still have them. Wrong of you to assume I would attempt to deceive someone like that and wrong of you to assume that I wouldn't tell the person I'm selling to that I had done so to repair the card. Wrong, wrong, wrong.

Back to topic,

Exactly "what" is unethical about baking a card to repair solder fractures? How do you know this hasn't been an employed method for years upon years by board makers? Maybe we could ask Zap? Even if it wasn't/isn't, there isn't anything "unethical" about it.
I wonder if you think RMA only means you'll automatically get a replacement instead of a repair.

I'm not taking it personal, nor am I attempting any type of character assassination. I'm sorry if you took great offense to my saying that. It was not my intent. Let me rephrase it as to not be misunderstood as some sort of personal attack. I wouldn't do business like that, nor would I do business with someone who would.

The materials used weren't up to a standard required to offer acceptable operational longevity. Reflowing does not fix that. You claim that reflowing (baking) is a permanent fix. I disagree. In our hypothetical instance here, yes the product should be replaced. I say hypothetical because the card was returned with no problem found. The original question was do we think nVidia baked it and returned it claiming no problem found.

No I do not think that an RMA automatically entitles someone to a replacement. A permanent repair, by replacing the defective component etc., is perfectly acceptable.

 

[-Slacker-]

No.

Whatever, there are already 52 posts in the thread, so there are enough opinions for me to make up my mind.

At any rate, the RMA chick from the store called yesterday and she seemed confused about the card after they received it; I explained why I thought the card was busted (can hear windows logo but no image + also no image on my other monitor) and she still seemed apprehensive about something.

Weird.

Seems like it's going to be like last time, they tell me there's nothing wrong, and send me the -apparently- working card...

 

[Soundmanred]

There are already 52 posts in the thread, so there are enough opinions for me to make up my mind.

At any rate, the RMA from the store she seemed confused about the card after it; I explained why the card was busted (can hear image + also no image) and she still seemed apprehensive about something.


Seems like it's going to be like last time, they tell me there's nothing wrong, and send me the -apparently- working card...

Weird.

 

[-Slacker-]

Weird.

Is that you expert opinion?

 

[beginner99]

Whatever, there are already 52 posts in the thread, so there are enough opinions for me to make up my mind.

At any rate, the RMA chick from the store called yesterday and she seemed confused about the card after they received it; I explained why I thought the card was busted (can hear windows logo but no image + also no image on my other monitor) and she still seemed apprehensive about something.

Weird.

Seems like it's going to be like last time, they tell me there's nothing wrong, and send me the -apparently- working card...

Have you tried any other card in the same system? Maybe the issue is your MoBo' (PCIe slot, PCIE connection,...)

 

[Soundmanred]

Is that you expert opinion?

expert?

 

[-Slacker-]

Have you tried any other card in the same system? Maybe the issue is your MoBo' (PCIe slot, PCIE connection,...)

I haven't, but I don't have a spare video card. I may pester a friend to lend his VC to me later on.