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Bad luck or Bad Parts? Cyberpower Revisited. (12/01/08 Updates!)

November 6th, 2008 Ted Sanft 3 comments

Since my last post about Cyberpower, I have continued to experience issues with my system.  First, something was seriously wrong with my video system.  After a lot of diagnoses and downloading EVGA Precision, I determined that one of my two 9800GX2 cards was running hot (WAY HOT).  At idle, this card was running @ 70(c) and at load it hit 112(c)!  I pulled one card and then the other to determine which one was bad.  Now comes the moment of truth, a call to CyberpowerPC tech support (dum dum duuuuuum!).

At first, I sent Cyberpower an email explaining the issue and asking for help.  I received no response.  Once I became convinced the issue was a bad card, called and left a message, again, no call back, however the next day I received and email (addressed to Dear Mr./Mrs.).  I played phone/email tag with them for almost a week(In fairness, I was out of town for two days).  Finally Zakary called me and it was a simple process.  They needed a credit card number for a cross-ship (They send me a new part and I return the old one in the box I received the new one in).  They ship the part ground, which would really suck if it was a part I needed to get my PC running!

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