So in april of 2016, I replaced my old MSI GTX 660 with a new EVGA GTX 1070 FTW. It worked fine for 16 months, up until last month. I woke up to a burning smell in my room, and my computer was no longer working with the 1070. I swapped in the 660 for the time being, and was able to get the 1070 RMA'd.
I received the replacement 1070 today and installed it. It worked fine for about 30 minutes before i got some blue box artifacting, and eventually the computer blue screened and crashed. Initially I thought there might be some faulty connection to the motherboard, so I removed the card and ensured the socket was clean. It worked fine upon startup for a bit, until i got the same blue box artifacting and eventual bluescreen. Every attempted startup since then, I get horizontal blue line artifacts and extreme pixelation.
It was extremely hard to read the screen, so i had to go back and forth from my phone to try to figure out what was going on. I figured out my replacement card had the infamous micron vram, but I eventually figured out that the current vbios should not be causing a problem in that regard (GPUZ says that the current bios is 86.04.50.00.72). Video driver is also up to date. I took some pictures with my phone just so I could have a record of what exactly the artifacts look like, but unfortunately any screenshots with text would just not be useful because of how extreme this pixelation is.
Anyway, while my card is known to be problematic, I cant find any problem with it that shouldn't have been already fixed. I received the replacement TODAY, so I find it very hard to believe some kind of damage was caused to the card. Is there a potential fix, or should I just have it RMA'd again?
I received the replacement 1070 today and installed it. It worked fine for about 30 minutes before i got some blue box artifacting, and eventually the computer blue screened and crashed. Initially I thought there might be some faulty connection to the motherboard, so I removed the card and ensured the socket was clean. It worked fine upon startup for a bit, until i got the same blue box artifacting and eventual bluescreen. Every attempted startup since then, I get horizontal blue line artifacts and extreme pixelation.
It was extremely hard to read the screen, so i had to go back and forth from my phone to try to figure out what was going on. I figured out my replacement card had the infamous micron vram, but I eventually figured out that the current vbios should not be causing a problem in that regard (GPUZ says that the current bios is 86.04.50.00.72). Video driver is also up to date. I took some pictures with my phone just so I could have a record of what exactly the artifacts look like, but unfortunately any screenshots with text would just not be useful because of how extreme this pixelation is.
Anyway, while my card is known to be problematic, I cant find any problem with it that shouldn't have been already fixed. I received the replacement TODAY, so I find it very hard to believe some kind of damage was caused to the card. Is there a potential fix, or should I just have it RMA'd again?
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