8600M GT 512mb GDDR2 dies within a week of use! Normal!?

Asus sent me a replacement 8600M GT DDR2 card a week ago now I can't boot past the windows 7 boot logo while there are vertical red lines across the screen. This card only about a week or so since I installed it. Is this at all normal for a new card to die so quickly! Absolutely shocked that it died so fast even if it is the "faulty" 8600M series still this card must have had another fault! The heat never exceeded 75C as I tested it. Idled around 50-60C at full clocks as powermizer didn't kick in.

 

No it is not normal. I dont think anything breaking after a week of use is normal. They send you the card and you installed it? Are you use you installed it correctly including the heat sink?

What were your temperatures when it was working? Did you do any overclocking? Flashed a new gpu bios? things like that

Send it back? Should be covered by warranty

 

I am out of warranty now lol the last replacement was last minute already I hope they will still change it though It died while playing crysis warhead.

Yes absolutely properly installed it have changed out mxm cards a number of times.

 

The faulty GeForce 8 cards break on the timescale of a year or two, not a week. So either there was some other issue unrelated to the well known problem or your "new" card was actually salvaged from another laptop.

 

Is it a refurb or new?

 

It's not a "new" card. Factories don't produce video cards that are 2 years old with a target market of about 20 people.

 

Well that explains it.

 

It is supposed to be unused. They did ship this one from China however to the UK which means it passed through many many hands. They were supposed to ship a DDR3 one but messed up as perusual and sent a run of the mill DDR2 one. I wonder if it got slightly damaged on route and as a result something burnt out after a short while of usage. I must also point out that this card never once caused a nvidia driver crash nor had to downclock thanks to temps. It simply was fine until it died mid-game.

Found a 8600M GT 256mb GDDR3 card on ebay for cheap price. It is a acer mxm card though. Is this card likely to be vbios locked only to acer machines?

 

ASUS uses flipped MXM can't work sorry... u'd need to look for something else or sell ur laptop.

 

I think the C90 is the only Asus laptop to use normal MXM slot type II.

There are people that managed to install a GDDR3 9600M, so maybe you can follow those instructions and get yourself a slightly better card?

 

Lol sean473 it uses mxm cards certainly not flipped however I cannot be bothered to manufacture a new heatsink. It works again now but will crash at 68C. I am thinking of ripping off the lower memory modules and just have 256mb DDR2 ram as maybe one of the lower modules is wrecked.

 

Yep, they're right. The C90 actually had a successful upgrade to a 9600M GT.

 

Yes, it's normal. Consider yourself lucky it worked for a week. The 8600m gt that came with a new inspiron 1520 in 2007 was like that on the first day, weird artifacting at vista boot logo except it did boot. Before sending it back we made a tiny mark on the videocard with a marker and guess what? dell replaced the motherboard, but not the videocard.... of course the problem stayed, had to send it back again.

 

Still a very common notebook gaming GPU.

 

You were sent the wrong one, say it does not work anyway.

You should expect reasonable use out of products, regardless of warrenty.

 

send it back and request a new one. warranty or not, a product is still bound by the consumer protection act which states products should last for a "reasonable time". a week isnt. this is law. law beats "its out of warranty" everytime lol.

 

well try a 9600M GT... it should be a nice upgrade... otherwise just sell ur laptop

 

funny..my 8600m GT 256 Mb GDDR 2 is runnin OCED since over 2 years now..no problems here..

 

Not in production anymore though.

 

nah I shall hold on for now it works for everything but games. If I game the temp climbs and it crashes lol. I am presently working on getting an msi 4670 DDR3 card so feck nvidia.

 

Well good luck with that.

 

Good luck indeed

 

a condom?

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Nope, not normal at all, I have never had a graphics card die on me before it became obcelete and I replaced them.

 

If you had an 8600M GT or 8600M GS you would I think. They had a proven fault.

 

Lol, classic.

 

That's 8 chars actually.