- Mar 1, 2020
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So I have a Gigabyte r9 390 which was just sitting there for an year, since I went to an out of state college and didn't bring my PC, I got back during a break and wanted to test the PC out.
Unfortunately, at the first boot windows was very laggy, like dll errors and eventual crashes. I thought I would clean install, but 2 minutes in the installer and the screen goes black. Then I tried going into the BIOS, but same thing, it goes black after 5-10 minutes.
Maybe the card was overheating, or any VRM or VRAM component was busted, so I opened the card and checked. Most of it was clean and nothing seemed out of place. The GPU Dye was getting hot for idle, but I didn't have the tools to measure how hot, but I was touchable. No VRM or the VRAM were getting hot enough to concern me.
I don't know what happened to it, since it was not used long enoug I don't think the GPU can break, and before that it played perfectly fine at highest temps being 80°C in DOOM 2016. I'll replace the thermal paste and the pads and try again, but I doubt it will work.
Integrated Graphics work. One thing I noticed is that the PC shuts down when I insert anything in the back USB ports, but after I turn it back in it works fine with the component in the port.
Unfortunately, at the first boot windows was very laggy, like dll errors and eventual crashes. I thought I would clean install, but 2 minutes in the installer and the screen goes black. Then I tried going into the BIOS, but same thing, it goes black after 5-10 minutes.
Maybe the card was overheating, or any VRM or VRAM component was busted, so I opened the card and checked. Most of it was clean and nothing seemed out of place. The GPU Dye was getting hot for idle, but I didn't have the tools to measure how hot, but I was touchable. No VRM or the VRAM were getting hot enough to concern me.
I don't know what happened to it, since it was not used long enoug I don't think the GPU can break, and before that it played perfectly fine at highest temps being 80°C in DOOM 2016. I'll replace the thermal paste and the pads and try again, but I doubt it will work.
Integrated Graphics work. One thing I noticed is that the PC shuts down when I insert anything in the back USB ports, but after I turn it back in it works fine with the component in the port.
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