It has to be something on the card. The power supply is a brand new 750 evga supernova and it runs two hd7950s and it never needs to run its fan. So the caps might be bad? I couldnt find any shorted fets or open inductors. I measured every capacitor in each vrm and they measured 1.1 for the gpu, 1.25 for the vram, and one single phase vrm that drives...something measured 1.65, which seems strange. Here is some info from one of my posts in a different fourum:
I already checked each mosfet for shorts and they are all fine. I checked each choke while the card was running (it works occasionally if you mash the cmos reset) and the vram chokes measured the same AC and DC voltage, and the GPU chokes also measured the same. However, the unknown choke measured a bit higher and that VRM was outputting the highest voltage.
Measuring the 6 phase GPU VRM set, I got 1.0v idle and 1.1v load
Measuring the VRAM 2 phase VRM set, I (think) I got 1.25v
Measuring the unidentified single phase regulator, I got about 1.65V
Attached is an image of the basic layout (sorry, didnt feel like finding a high res image and launching photoshop)
Does anyone know what this unknown section doeS?
Before anyone asks the cards serial number is missing and asus wont even touch it without a serial.