[SOLVED] can a orange triangle on device manager mean that my gpu is broken?

[patriciogregorio]

My pc auto reboot and now i have a little orange triange, and the drivers are fine, can be the gpu? if yes i will try reflow i dont have warranty

 

[USAFRet]

My pc auto reboot and now i have a little orange triange, and the drivers are fine, can be the gpu? if yes i will try reflow i dont have warranty

The hardware may be broken.
The software r driver may be faulty.

Do you know what a "reflow" entails, what it does, and the limitations of it?
What leads you to determine that is the first thing you should try?

 

[patriciogregorio]

My pc auto reboot and now i have a little orange triange, and the drivers are fine, can be the gpu? if yes i will try reflow i dont have warranty

The hardware may be broken.
The software r driver may be faulty.

Do you know what a "reflow" entails, what it does, and the limitations of it?
What leads you to determine that is the first thing you should try?

well i dont have warranty, and i tried in a pc friend, at same time a friend that fix gpu watch it and told me that need a reflow/reballing
but talking about limitation and other spec about reflow i dont know too much :/

 

[USAFRet]

well i dont have warranty, and i tried in a pc friend, at same time a friend that fix gpu watch it and told me that need a reflow/reballing
but talking about limitation and other spec about reflow i dont know too much :/

reflow - heating it up enough to partially melt some/all of the solder connections.
And then cooling it properly.

1. Requires prep. You need to take off all the plastic or other melty bits.
2. You don't do this in an oven you wish to cook food in later.
3. There is a specific temperature curve, both up and down.
4. This is not a magical "fix everything" type of deal. It only works in certain kinds of fail modes, and generally only for a short time.
5. This "reflow" is an old concept, that sort of worked for one particular GPU, years ago. Since then, the word has taken on a life of its own.

If your 'friend' is recommending this, then surely he has done it before and knows the conditions.

 

[arajigar]

I did learn in the hard way that ,with GPUs, a yellow triangle means that, if posible, you need to RMA it. 🙁

 

[Phillip Corcoran]

I did learn in the hard way that ,with GPUs, a yellow triangle means that, if posible, you need to RMA it. 🙁

OP already told us he doesn't have a warranty on it.

 

[arajigar]

Crap... Is there a way to fix an apparently operative GPU? I mean, that card seemed to not overheat and it also seem to be up to date, and USAFREt said that the reballing seem also to not be a magical cure. In the other hand there is the fact that many modern models of GPUs are failing almost out of the box.

 

[USAFRet]

Crap... Is there a way to fix an apparently operative GPU? I mean, that card seemed to not overheat and it also seem to be up to date, and USAFREt said that the reballing seem also to not be a magical cure. In the other hand there is the fact that many modern models of GPUs are failing almost out of the box.

Failing "almost out of the box" = warranty.

 

[arajigar]

Touché. No more answers...