KYRO 2, Injured in battle;(

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Dave B(TotalVR)

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A friend of mine was upgrading his PC, got himself a 2100+, he was unclipping the heatsink (globalwin) when the tab you shove your flatblade screwdriver into snapped off and the screwdriver made a nice gouge into his AGP KYRO II, right down by the AGP connector.

It looks lik 2 of the tracks on the board have been severed, with the possibility of a third. The gouge isn't enourmously deep, but the board is 6 layer right?

I was wondering what the plausibility of repair/claiming on warranty/suing globalwin for inferior products is. Really need simons help for the can I repait it question. It looks like it just needs a couple of tracks to be joined by a wire (I have thin enough wire, but not a small enough soldering iron - yet).

Whaddayoo guys think?

Dave
 
I think you might be better off letting it rest in peace.

With regards to warranty - card damaged and had it for longer than 30 days... you probably wont even get a look in.

Sueing GlobalWin - you have to prove that it was their products error and not user error. Very hard to do.. gonna cost u a squillion dollars and er you might end up losing (OUCH).

Repairing the Kyro II.. no idea how difficult that is. Might be a good time to upgrade :)
 
;)

OK not lawsuit, more getting trading standards on their asses for selling a faulty component which has casued damage to another part of the system.
 
Well

if the part which is bust is only a day old then I'd say you've got a pretty good case for getting it replaced. Damages to the Kyro II, that's gonna be harder to argue.

Playing Devil's Advocate for a second: Why wasn't the Kyro II removed from the machine before the upgrade took place??
 
I've had problems with heatsinks before , some of the first thermaltake orbs , bad clip design , no dent for any screwdriver

enough to take ma away from computers for a few weeks not wanting to go back

there has to be a good clip design
 
"Playing Devil's Advocate for a second: Why wasn't the Kyro II removed from the machine before the upgrade took place??"

Because the case has a slide-out motherboard tray and the processer is fully accessible when its pulled out.
 
It may be of no help now. :(
But i got a big fat rusty flathead screwdriver i pulled from the engine comparment of some old car that i use to clip HSF units on with.
Seems to be guaranteed no slip with all the rust on the blade.
clean rust, not flaky that is.
Gives it some grip when wedged into that lil confounding notch.

I tried various other new shiny flatheads, and experienced the same prob. - slipping off the lil metal clip when installing.
Seems the only answer to lives problems are so low tech.. it hurts. :-?
 
He didn't slip off the metal clip, the metal clip snapped off.


Its academic now though really coz he's bought a GF4 ti-4200 for £99 +vat, not a bad deal..
 
Dave B(TotalVR) said:
He didn't slip off the metal clip, the metal clip snapped off...
Click to expand...

Ahh, my mistake.
Actually right before i posted this i had been visiting one of those sites that show hardware abuse. Some of those pictures disturbed me more than something one might see on one of those rotten sites.

Some of those disturbing and graphic pictures can be seen Here
:D
 
My Dad is having a look at it for us, he has the equipment to fix it at work, but if one of the internal pcb layrs has tracks severed my m8 is screwed.
 
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