Ok, so there's an issue, yesterday I've received an asus R9 280x DC2T. Today, after I started to setup my mining setup with cgminer (for experimenting) in a few minutes my pc crashed (I don't think its a cgminer problem because the crash could occur when playing bf4 for example). I was surprised that my screen was white with black lines
https://discussions.apple.com/servlet/JiveServlet/showI... Looked like this as far as I remember. Now after I went through a shock, I decided to see what the real issue is. I reassembled all the cables, tuned it on again and I my motherboard shows the code which is 62 it means "Installation of the PCH runtime services" I am like, wtf? I turned the pc off again. I put in my old gtx 560 ti in my mobo, and everything boots up without any problem. I thought, maybe it is a temporary issue. I replaced 560 with r9 again, and after I boot up (note that everything works, fans are spinning (not full speed), I see both green lights and everything works as it should) I still get error 62. I noticed as I touched the card, it starts to heat up really quickly and gets hot as hell. I thought maybe I should replace a thermal compound, maybe my thermal paste isn't applied that well and i've to replace it. There was a screw that I had to break and it looked like this
http://i61.tinypic.com/20f4860.jpg I didn't even think about it and I started unscrewing without realizing it may break my warranty (That screw is warranty right? Hope not)
I noticed thermal compound was applied really badly, all over the chip and etc. I cleaned it up and applied my MK-2. Reassembled everything together and powered it up. Nothing happens, still a 62 code and the gpu still heats up. So, is it a faulty card? Btw I've tried to reinstall my mobo bios and etc, but I don't think it's a problem with my bios as it worked before. The thing is, I got a faulty and a broken card and I broke my warranty? Please tell me that screw didn't break my warranty.
My PC main specs: i5 4670k
mobo: gigabyte z87x ud3h
ram: kingston hyperx 2133mhz cl11
psu: Fortron 650w 80' bronze.
