[David E. Gervais]

Originally posted by Karibu:
That is a sad story, David. However, you are entitled to compensation.

Perhaps, but am I intereted? Not one bit. If they offered me a new computer system to go with the card I'd say "No." Replace my 'Lost' ATI? No thanks. Nothing they say or do will ever change my opinion of them. There loss not mine. You know the old saying, Fool me once shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me. Well, this is one cat you can't skin twice.

I have several friends with ATI cards and they have had no problems. (one of my friends had the exact same problem as me, a resistor fell off, but he is an electronic technician by profession and he simply re-soldered it on the card and that fixed his problem.) BTW: the resistor that fell off did not prevent his computer from running, but he could not run any 3D games. they would simply crash to desktop or cause his computer to reboot. If this sounds like problems that you have, you might want to check if a transistor is missing from the graphic card.

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XX marks the approximate spot where the loose trasistors were on both my friends card and mine.

Anyway, It's all history now. I'd much rather look to the future. (And I know that SEV is a part of my future, so I'm very happy. )

Nuf said, Cheers!