Question Did my GPU died on me?

glinski

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Hello. Recently almost all games I tried to play closed/crashed after only a few seconds UNDER LOAD (when you are actually playing).

Relevant specs:
GPU: Geforce 1070TI.
PSU: 850w Corsair 80 Plus Gold

NO OVERCLOCKS on GPU or on anything else on the system.
Nothing was recently added/removed/changed from the system


Full specs:
CPU: I5 8400
MOBO: Asus PRIME Z370-P
RAM: 2x8gb 3200mhz G-Skill
Disk: Samsung M2 1gb
OS: Windows 11

Tried:
  • Driver reinstall
  • Windows reinstall
  • Tried starting PC without one stick of RAM then another.
  • Tried some GPU benchmarks
All good (even GPU benchmarks), until I tried a stress test using OCCT. My PC crashed with articfacts on screen during the test.

After that, I lost video... After a few hard resets, windows finally booted without any trace of nvidia drivers, all gone, even the nvidia control panel... never saw that happened before.

Thinking that windows 11 must have removed the drivers on a possible conflict, I used DDU (a program that force remove any trace of nvidia) before a new driver reinstall.

Now I cant even see the BIOS when starting the PC. In otherwords I cant even acccess bios...

I dont think that, even removing all drivers, I wouldn`t be able to see the bios screen...

No video signal at all. I cant think of anything else than a hardware problem with the GPU.

Is there any hope that this can be caused by other things?
 
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