Fried my Accel Card - Any Hope?

[rantanplan]

Hi there!

I think i fried one of my accel cards (PCI-X). It's the one seated next to my passive cooled video card. That's why i guess it's a overheat damage, because this card gets quite hot.

This first became noticeable when PT just froze from time to time on the start up window. In these cases, rebooting once ore twice did the trick.

But later on it started to crash DAE in the middle of a session.

In the end, rebooting didn't help neither, or maybe only in one of ten tries.
Now i have removed this card and the system works fine again.

I hope that it's just something simple like a fried capacitor.
Because, when the card is working, DSPs are all up and ok in DigiTest.
And when it doesn't work, the BIOS screen of my hackintosh shows less PCI devices than usual (but some of the card's resources are still there...).

Someone here with similar experience? Or maybe some insider with technical knowledge?

Of course I could get a "new" one in the bay for low (and I did already), but it hurts to dump this card...

Cheers
T

[tonwurm]

I´ve sent my accel card to Mitch Berger technical services a few weeks ago. He repaired it for a very good price and all is running fine again.

http://duc.avid.com/showthread.php?t=344947

read last post in this thread from "the dude"

[rantanplan]

Originally Posted by tonwurm

I´ve sent my accel card to Mitch Berger technical services a few weeks ago. He repaired it for a very good price and all is running fine again.

http://duc.avid.com/showthread.php?t=344947

read last post in this thread from "the dude"

Thank you for the hint!

I see you are from "old Europe" - did you have to pay any customs duty? How much was shipping?

Cheers,
T

[tonwurm]

Originally Posted by rantanplan

Thank you for the hint!

I see you are from "old Europe" - did you have to pay any customs duty? How much was shipping?

Cheers,
T

from germany to usa about 20€, back from usa to here 55 usd, no customs duty...

[Barry Johns]

These cards go for 200 bucks, probably cheaper just to buy another one on eBay.

[rantanplan]

Originally Posted by Barry Johns

These cards go for 200 bucks, probably cheaper just to buy another one on eBay.

I fear that it's not worth repairing, too

[the dude]

send it on in... an estimate can not hurt, or maybe even a trade in for a good card

$200 for one on eBay sounds great
But what happens when it arrives dead or broke, so I fix for $150 but you know it will work
What sounds better