Sprytix (@Sprytixl) “THIS DEVELOPER SPENT WEEKS TRYING TO GET TWO NVIDIA K80s WORKING - AND LOST $150” — TopicDigg

THIS DEVELOPER SPENT WEEKS TRYING TO GET TWO NVIDIA K80s WORKING - AND LOST $150 ON EBAY CARDS THAT NEVER BOOTED 04:59 he notices it - a little warmth on the card, so it's getting voltage - but nothing on the screen, no beeps, just a quiet click from the internal speaker every 30 seconds like the system is rebooting itself traced every wire with a multimeter - 12 volts on all four top pins, ground confirmed on every bottom pin, correct pinout on both cards known good PCIe 16x slot, 1125 watt power supply, correct adapter that came with the cards - everything should work and nothing does switched from G2 to slots G1 and G3 thinking maybe different rails - same result, same click, same blank screen tested the second card - identical behavior - at that point the only conclusion is two dead cards from eBay bought too long ago to return $150 gone, weeks of troubleshooting, and a very thorough video proving that sometimes the cards are just bad