Leadtek Winfast GeForce2 GTS

[ChaplainDave]

Have had this card since March 2001...bought from Neutron...all has been fine until yesterday. Screen went blank...tried several times to reboot. Then I noticed that the computer was not as "loud" as it had been...suspected some sort of fan malfunction. Looked...then spoted the fan on my GTS...frozen...dead. Quickly pulled the card and carefully removed the heatsink fan unit and replaced it with a blue orb. Reinstalled into computer (Abit KT7A-RAID, AMD Thunderbird 1GHz, 512MB (two sticks of 256MB) PC 133 SDRAM, IBM 75GXP 45GB HDD, CD ROM, SoundBlaster Live!, Linksys NIC 10/100, Creative Labs ModemBlaster 56K.

Even after replacing the heatsink fan with the blue orb, cannot get boot up. Even reseated the memory modules. Any suggestions? Do not even get the initial beep before booting into Windows 98SE. Nothing. Please help. All suggestions will certainly be considered. Thanks.

 

[Barrei]

It depends how long the fan was off, but you probably fried your gpu.

 

[ChaplainDave]

Any idea on what kind of warranty Leadtek has on its boards? I searched the site, but because the board is a bit old couldn't find any info on warranty. I did write to them...guess I'll just have to wait to hear from them. If they tell me to send the board back to them I will have to reinstall the old heatsink fan, but that shouldn't pose much of a problem. Thanks for the reply.

 

[jiffylube1024]

Did you try booting with another video card, to make sure it's the GF2 at fault? Otherwise something else could have gone in your computer instead or as well...

 

[gtd2000]

Leadtek has a lifetime warranty I'm sure.

I have a Leadtek GF2 Pro - it came with a one year warranty card but was advertised as having a lifetime warranty on the Newegg site.

One e-mail later to Leadtek they confirmed that it had a lifetime warranty