I did have them running all 3 for a few days at a time, a d then randomly they stopped. I also tried different versions of amd drivers. Right now I am on the very latest and these seem to be working pretty well. But I spent probably 50+ hrs trying diff configs, its my first rig so no biggie but to have the card die in 4 weeks just blows.
Hopefully amazon/tigerdirect will take the card back, otherwise I need to send it back to visiontek I guess. Only issue is I am in sweden now for my masters so I am hoping the shipping wont cost an arm and leg....
Topic: Visiontek Radeon 6950 1gb really dead (Read 927 times)
Had a similar issue. Ordered one from Tigerdirect, and it worked perfectly as a third crossfire care and miner for about 2 days until it crashed everything that used crossfire. When I tried to use it as the main card, I would get this huge red band on the screen up until Windows booted, which was a black and red checkerboard. Gave hardware errors for Bitcoin mining and simply refused to Litecoin mine.
Got it RMA'd within a week, and my new one actually stays cooler than both XFX cards I have with more robust heat sinks. Runs like a beast.
My other dealing with Visiontek was several years ago for a 3870 (which I still have, it's sitting on my room's intercom), and they honored the warranty 2 months after it expired. I can't vouch for them now, but they've served me nicely before.
Got it RMA'd within a week, and my new one actually stays cooler than both XFX cards I have with more robust heat sinks. Runs like a beast.
My other dealing with Visiontek was several years ago for a 3870 (which I still have, it's sitting on my room's intercom), and they honored the warranty 2 months after it expired. I can't vouch for them now, but they've served me nicely before.
I've been using these cards for a while now and they have been running perfectly
Guess you got a bad one.
As for not getting multiple cards to work together, isn't that more of a driver/possibly motherboard thing?
Guess you got a bad one.
As for not getting multiple cards to work together, isn't that more of a driver/possibly motherboard thing?
I bought 3 of these and after 1 month 2 are still working. Nothing but issues with these cards... the longest I had all three running at the same time was about 4 days and then couldn't get more than 2 at the same time, lots of BSOD, driver restarts... ugh
Now exactly sure what happened to this card, everything seemed to be fine, and then at some point I walked to the room and noticed that the screen was frozen. I looked at my p2pool server and noticed that my hashrate was at 50%.
When I restarted the fans on the card started spinning but it wasn't posting at all, and eventually the bios switched over to the internal graphics card.
I've tried inserting it into a few different slots over the last couple days with no results.
Sent in a request to Amazon / Tigerdirect and hopefully they will take it back, but it's been about 40 days since my order shipped so...
Sometimes it's better not to go bottom of the barrel cheap
Now exactly sure what happened to this card, everything seemed to be fine, and then at some point I walked to the room and noticed that the screen was frozen. I looked at my p2pool server and noticed that my hashrate was at 50%.
When I restarted the fans on the card started spinning but it wasn't posting at all, and eventually the bios switched over to the internal graphics card.
I've tried inserting it into a few different slots over the last couple days with no results.
Sent in a request to Amazon / Tigerdirect and hopefully they will take it back, but it's been about 40 days since my order shipped so...
Sometimes it's better not to go bottom of the barrel cheap
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