i'm located within the EU, whats confusing as said is the T17+ and none with different amount of chips on each board, 44 and 64?, should they need a designatet FW depending on asic count on each hash bord? Awesom issued two different FW's 1.00 and 2.0.3? Ill try the first one on the faulty card, may be it will run?

Yes rigth, the T17 with a poped heatsink present it self at initial phase of power cycling, 000000 and then it wanish from the Gui, so i migth be alive, lets see what will happen as i glue i back then.