check your warranty status...if u bought them in the last 3 years, depending on the vendor, you might be able to RMA them. Just dont tell them that YOU did something to them obv. Just say you turned on your computer one day, and they didnt work. Play dumb and i've never had an RMA rejected, even once when my friend spilled a soda thru the top fan on my PC right onto my GPU...i dried it off and got it replaced no problem.