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Hi everyone,
As I was trying to milk every last bit of performance out of my graphics card a while back, I accidentally enabled a bad overclock.
I was unaware that I had done this as it appeared to be stable in both benchmarks and games, however, when I later went to turn my computer back on, it began to boot and then shut itself off. Prior to turning it on, however, I decided to install a gpu stand to counter sagging — which lead me to believe that it was perhaps the stand pushing the GPU into the wrong position.
Regardless, after I eventually got Windows to boot, I began to notice pixelation across solid textures on my screen, and issues with my Card’s anti-aliasing, anisotropic filtering, DSR, etc. Images became blurry, textures across games became “shimmery,” and I saw pixelation on any scene that involved rendering different shading.
Now evidently, at this point I believe myself to have fried my graphics card given the circumstances. I spoke to Nvidia support and after providing them data from GPU-Z, they said the card was working perfectly— I didn’t buy that exactly, since I also noticed that the card wasn’t maintaining its usual boost clock speed, and was dropping to speeds
I had never seen before (GPU usage was also high in relatively non-intensive scenes, such as loading screens and menus). I also noticed that without any overclock applied (which was how my card was now behaving as I took of that troublesome OC) GPU-Z was reporting an operation voltage limit — which had never happened before on stock settings.
At this point, I decided that I really needed to start eliminating variables though. So first, I tried different cables to my monitor, both HDMI and DP; I still saw the same graphical errors.
Next, I tried a different monitor (1080p instead of my 1440p one); same result as the last. I then LITERALLY reinstalled windows via as flash drive (wiped my C drive) just to perhaps eliminate any troublesome voltage delivery settings, or something like that; it still didn’t work — though I did notice that there was a partition on my hard drive I wasn’t allowed to clear.
And finally, I tried a different Graphics card figuring that IT HAS to be the card, and… my other card had the EXACT same graphical issues.
At this point I then realized that maybe, since the issues were exactly the same, it wasn’t the card. I then began to believe it was the PCIE slot considering both cards had had the same issue. From that realization, I then move my other graphics card to the bottom slot, only to encounter the exact same graphical issues. “So the board’s PCIE controller is shot (or something else hardware related),” I thought to myself. And from there I engage in the painstaking task of literally RMAing every single part in my PC aside from the PSU, the hard drives, and of course the graphics card.
A couple of days go by, I functionally rebuild my PC, and… the same issue. So, that’s where I’m at now; I feel like I’ve literally exhausted every possibility. I tried a little bit more tinkering with settings, such as of course tuning the Nvidia control panel settings, ensuring that no auto-oc tuners are running, and even looking into reflashing the vbios in case some voltage delivery value was changed.
But other than that, guys, I have absolutely no clue what to do. Nvidia support and Evga support haven’t really been any help, so I figured this is one of my only final options. If anyone has a sure fire solution or any suggestions, please, feel free to share them.
Thanks in advance (and also, thanks for sitting through all of that 😆)
Hi everyone,
As I was trying to milk every last bit of performance out of my graphics card a while back, I accidentally enabled a bad overclock.
I was unaware that I had done this as it appeared to be stable in both benchmarks and games, however, when I later went to turn my computer back on, it began to boot and then shut itself off. Prior to turning it on, however, I decided to install a gpu stand to counter sagging — which lead me to believe that it was perhaps the stand pushing the GPU into the wrong position.
Regardless, after I eventually got Windows to boot, I began to notice pixelation across solid textures on my screen, and issues with my Card’s anti-aliasing, anisotropic filtering, DSR, etc. Images became blurry, textures across games became “shimmery,” and I saw pixelation on any scene that involved rendering different shading.
Now evidently, at this point I believe myself to have fried my graphics card given the circumstances. I spoke to Nvidia support and after providing them data from GPU-Z, they said the card was working perfectly— I didn’t buy that exactly, since I also noticed that the card wasn’t maintaining its usual boost clock speed, and was dropping to speeds
I had never seen before (GPU usage was also high in relatively non-intensive scenes, such as loading screens and menus). I also noticed that without any overclock applied (which was how my card was now behaving as I took of that troublesome OC) GPU-Z was reporting an operation voltage limit — which had never happened before on stock settings.
At this point, I decided that I really needed to start eliminating variables though. So first, I tried different cables to my monitor, both HDMI and DP; I still saw the same graphical errors.
Next, I tried a different monitor (1080p instead of my 1440p one); same result as the last. I then LITERALLY reinstalled windows via as flash drive (wiped my C drive) just to perhaps eliminate any troublesome voltage delivery settings, or something like that; it still didn’t work — though I did notice that there was a partition on my hard drive I wasn’t allowed to clear.
And finally, I tried a different Graphics card figuring that IT HAS to be the card, and… my other card had the EXACT same graphical issues.
At this point I then realized that maybe, since the issues were exactly the same, it wasn’t the card. I then began to believe it was the PCIE slot considering both cards had had the same issue. From that realization, I then move my other graphics card to the bottom slot, only to encounter the exact same graphical issues. “So the board’s PCIE controller is shot (or something else hardware related),” I thought to myself. And from there I engage in the painstaking task of literally RMAing every single part in my PC aside from the PSU, the hard drives, and of course the graphics card.
A couple of days go by, I functionally rebuild my PC, and… the same issue. So, that’s where I’m at now; I feel like I’ve literally exhausted every possibility. I tried a little bit more tinkering with settings, such as of course tuning the Nvidia control panel settings, ensuring that no auto-oc tuners are running, and even looking into reflashing the vbios in case some voltage delivery value was changed.
But other than that, guys, I have absolutely no clue what to do. Nvidia support and Evga support haven’t really been any help, so I figured this is one of my only final options. If anyone has a sure fire solution or any suggestions, please, feel free to share them.
Thanks in advance (and also, thanks for sitting through all of that 😆)
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