Thank you for your concern, ssateneth. I did consider that a possibility. I received the card back today and pretty much 100% sure it's mine. It's showing the same symptoms he described. The forum user who bought it is dxtwo. He is a newer user and I read through some of his post. He appears to be buying a decent amount of mining gear and must have a small farm going. He said is was his first 7950 and I don't see where he has purchased any. We did the deal through bitmit. I decided to try it out incase I want to sell a few things in the future. The btc is currently in escrow there and I will be releasing it back to him this evening. He paid return shipping.

I really don't know what happen to the card. It was working fine when I removed it. It had been through power cycles before and also been moved to a different pc a few times. It set on my desk for about 1 week while I was trying to sell it. It was kinda sitting on/near the plastic package the free-games come in. I guess this is a small possibility of static from that somehow. It was shipped in a medium flat-rate box(the flat rectangle one). The card and everything was packaged in its original box. I put that inside the medium flat rate box without extra packaging. It could move freely inside. Even still, the card itself is cushion inside its anti-static bag and foam in box. I don't see how it could have been damaged in shipping.

I ran it at 1050mhz, 300 mem, 65% fan, low 70c temps

Fan spins but not video. Card doesn't even warm up after some minutes. atiflash doesn't detect the card. Anything I can try?