I bought a couple Ethereum rigs from this guy. One of the mobos was bad and possibly one of the cards. Unfortunately it is a $1000 Radeon Pro-Duo card that seems to be more of a brick than a card.
These cards are awesome, I have had 3 of them running for 3 weeks straight [basically 6 GPU's with massive cores, HBM, and Cooler Master factory water cooling]
I think the guy sold me a fried card. I can't prove that the card was bad when I received it.
Anyway, it was an Engineering Sample made by AMD in 2016. So I know there is no warranty, however I am wondering what my options are. I am waiting to hear back from AMD about what they might offer in terms of repair.
I can keep the card for water cooler spare parts for my other 3 cards, or I can try and manually flash the BIOS with an IC programmer. [maybe 20 man hours for me to set up]
Before I get into that; the card powers up but does not appear even as a registered PCI device. Maybe totally dead.
I can not find any physical damage, smoked VRM's, melted power connectors etc. And neither BIOS selection makes a difference. [I did not update the BIOS]
Any suggestions?
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[–] OHSHITANIGGERLIED [S] ago
Thanks for the link.