[FIXED/RESOLVED] Is my ASUS GTX 1060 6GB Dead?

[sarsinajar]

Card is Asus GTX 1060 ROG STRIX
STRIX-GTX1060-6G-GAMING

So i picked up my card blackfriday at new egg via will call. I was too tired to install it the same dayas i was too tired from all the driving and shopping. Next morning I uninstall my AMD drivers, download nvidia drivers and shut down.

Pulled out the old PowerColor HD 7870 and popped in the GTX 1060, connected the 8 pin, booted up system. Everything worked fine, proceeded to install nvidia drivers and reboot. I decide to test out Killer Instinct as i would normally get a 980/1000 score and ran the test, awesome got 1300/1000. Then i close the game and all i get is a grey screen, awesome...

i decided to alt tab, nothing, press wintab, nothing, tried ctrl alt del, nothing; so i reboot. Reboots to blue screen, something about TDR i think? i am not so sure it was early sat morning. so i let it do it's thing and it reboots, reboots fine into windows. As i was starting up chrome i noticed something, the gamebuttons on the side of battle.net were not showing up. Then i start up a youtube video and as it plays my screen started to get red dotted and dashed lines up and down teh screen, but i could still see my desktop.

OK, so i reboot, and as i hear my fans do it's thing while i stare at the monitor i noticed bios never shows, boot never shows, keyboard and mouse light up, just no video. DVI doesn't work, hdmi doesnt work, can't tell if display port works because i don't have a cable for it or a monitor for it. I reboot and i stare at my board, i noticed it was hanging on VGA light for a good 20 seconds then it would proceed to boot. but again nothing on the screen, just black. MY TV says it's output is 640/480 with just a black screen. So i am thinking of everything, i shut down and reboot a shit load of times even clearing cmos multiple times same thing happens, VGA light on for 20sec then proceeds to boot as if everything was normal but with no screen output.

So, i take the 1060 out and pop my old HD 7870. Everything works. So i decide to take my old rig as a test bench and pop the 1060 in that rig (mind you it has no hard drive). I boot it up and boot shows just telling me it needs a HDD. I am thinking "oh sweet, i wonder wtf was wrong with it." So i shut down the computer and get an SSD for a fresh windows install just to see maybe i had an old driver or something from the HD7870 and i boot it up, same thing happens on this like the other machine, black screen, showing 2b for about 20 second then continues to cycle boot and ends at 7f (telling me no display and post error) staying black never getting near FF

I am thinking this is a bad card, what do you guys think? I have already did the RMA thing with NewEgg and gonna mail it back tomorrow evening but would like to exhaust all options before doing so.

just had another stab at it with my old rig as my current rig is using the HD7870. Old rig i swapped out the GTX 1060 with a GTX 260 216 CORE, 260 shows video and posts like normal no hang ups, swapped in the 1060 and same thing, black screen, 2b.

One more thing i noticed. When i was start the system with the 1060 i noticed all 3 fans spun on button press and after the 2b code only 1 fan spun, the first one closest to the display adapters Just tried monday morning, now all fans stop spinning after power on, as soon as button press fans spin then stop after 2B code.

Current System:
AMD 9590
Asus Sabretooth TUF 990FX rev3.0
PowerColor HD 7870
G.skill Sniper DDR3 1866 8GB
Samsung EVO 850 SSD
Sound Blaster Recon3d Champ
EVGA SuperNova G2 750W gold+

Old System Used to test 1060 after failure on current system
Intel Q6600 QuadCore
EVGA 780i FTW
G.skill DDR2 1066 4gb
PNY SSD
OCZ GameXStream 700w

Crosspost from Reddit:

Status: RESOLVED
Computer Type: Desktop Custom Built NZXT S340 Elite
GPU: Asus STRIX 1060 6GB no overclock
CPU: AMD 9590 watercooled w/ Corsair H115i
Motherboard: Asus Sabretooth 990FX TUF R3.0, Bios 0212
RAM: G.Skill Sniper 16GB 1866 2x8GB, 9-10-9-28, 1.5v
PSU: EVGA SuperNOVA 750 G2, +5V@24A, +3.3V@24A, +12V@62.4A, -12V@0.5A, +5Vsb@2.5A
Operating System & Version: Windows 10 Pro 64bit Build 1607
GPU Drivers: 378.66 clean install just drivers, geforceexperience (for gameplay recording), and PhysX
Description of Problem: came back from a week vacation in florida and updated drivers to 378.66 from 378.49, whevener i play any graphics intensive game such as BF1, quantum break, hell even overwatch it will crash to desktop after a few hours of gameplay and recently i am getting bsod's saying system32k and just now nvlddmkm.sys, also chrome freezes and crashes but just chrome would freeze and crash when watching a video. Also i have been getting BSOD's with 0xc0000005 all of which started happening with these recent drivers.
Troubleshooting: everything is running factory settings, made sure to optimize defaults and set the timing and voltages for my ram. Set to maximum performance in power options with wake/sleep etc disabled, set power in nvidia control panel to maximum performance. I am beginning to think the newest 378.66 drivers are just straightup garbage. I have a Asus STRIX RX 480 8GB OC sitting on top of my case as a display but willing to swap it out if it is a busted 1060 or nvidia will keep regurgitating bad drivers. One thing though, my system never did this until the recent drivers, not sure if it's both 378.49 and 378.66 or just 378.66. Haven't posted a game review or tech video because of these problems.
This will be my 3rd failed nvidia card in my lifetime if this in fact busted. First the 8800GT way back years ago, then got a defect 1060 that only black screened and mobo leds showed it was a faulty graphics card so RMA'd that and jumped on the RX480 during sales, now this 1060 from NewEgg RMA.
Nvidia is making me lose hope. When i ran the RX 480 i had 0 issues for the 3 weeks i had it in use.

This is on a clean windows 10 install so it had no amd drivers to begin with. I even reinstalled windows 10 2-3 times thinking maybe it was corrupted during installation but the results were exactly the same everytime. I go into event log and i get hit with these 0xc0000005
Play Overwatch, crash to desktop, sometimes it will BSOD. BF1 would also do the same thing but would ask to debug. Quantum break also did the same, crash to desktop, chrome would freeze every few hours or so and crash sometimes BSOD.
I reformatted today and installed another clean windows 10 install and running the RX 480, so far so good and haven't crashed since restarting a few times after installing AMD Drivers, sound card, printer. Since the last restart from installs i have not crashed/BSOD for over 12 hours straight playing BF1 (enjoying DX12) and Overwatch.
Imma wait a few months until i try out my 1060 again, i sure do miss Nvidia's video recording, the quality was amazing and i LOVED Nvidia's FastSync since it had no input lag (With the AMD RX 480 i am just running all my games in borderless windows mode to make up for the loss of FastSync and i can't really tell the difference other than FastSync is smoother)

Was dusting the computer and noticed my ram was in slots 2 and 4 like i followed in the Manual. Double checked manual, confirmed it says to put my memory in A2 ans B2. Thought it was wierd and threw them on A1 and B1 (A1 is closest to the CPU).
Haven't crashed in 4 days (present day). I have the 480 still installed and the 1060 on top of the case just hanging there. Imma wait a few days maybe few weeks until I reinstall the 1060. Knowing AMD's "finewine tech" i'll prolly hold onto the 480 and sell the 1060 based on future benchmarks.

 

[sarsinajar]

so long story short, ordered a RX 480 which immensely pleased me. i just installed my new GTX 1060 from newegg rma and it is holding up and should hold up in the future, played a game of overwatch and ran heaven benchmark so i am pretty sure my previous card was dud. irregardless, i am happy to own both a RX 480 and a GTX 1060. If the GTX 1060 turns out to be a long term dud i can just revert back to my RX 480.

 

[sarsinajar]

So, i feel stupid but not at the same time. In the Asus Sabretooth TUF rev3.0 manual it specifically states to use dual channel in A2 and B2 (beige). But then i remembered that on the contrary from past posts and googling it should be the slot closest to the cpu.

So my ram was set up on the beige slots instead of the black slots because that's what Asus says in the manual. While i was swapping out my graphics card for the 480 i decided to swap the ram slots if i noticed any crashing, she still crashed.

While i still had my side glass-panel off i swapped out the ram slots to black (A1 and B2) and the computer hasn't crashed in 1 week which is a god damn miracle in my book for as long as i had this since i built it early/mid December. I was always used to check error logs and no longer saw AMD/Nvidia programs with an error, now i am error free.

I decided to add my old 8GB 4x2 G.Skill Sniper along with my 16gb 8x2 G.Skill Sniper (same timing, voltage etc) to A1 and B1 and my 8GB 4x2 to A2 and B2 for a total of 24GB of RAM. An additional 2 weeks later and have yet to crash. One day i will maybe change back to my 1060 STRIXso see if it is stable but i am more than confident that the 1060 is stable and maybe it was my ram slot mix up prolly killed my 1060 that i RMA'd and prolly why i was having these problems in the first place since day build.

I will post in the future when I switch out to the 1060 STRIX one day and will post if i get a stable system, i have no doubt it should be stable. Believe me when i say ONE DAY, i miss Nvidia's FastSync so bad, i am playing all my games in windows borderless on the RX 480. But i love playing BF1 and finished Quantum break in DX 12 and there is a noticible difference at least in my eyes and experience.

I still blame Asus though for the manual description and instructions.