Question GPU Professionals where are you?

[TheMenny1562]

Now for the past 6 - 8 months my GPU RTX 2080Super Gaming OC is giving me headaches. I get more or less constant Blackscreens in Games (doesn’t really matter what game) with the Fans of the GPU rushing to Max. Around These 6 - 8 months ago I upgraded to a Ryzen 7 7800x3d on a ASUS Prime X670-P MB paired with a Corsair Vengeance DDR5 6000Mhz 2 x 16GB Kit. Power supplies a Phanteks 750W PSU.
I got the CPU cooled with a BeQuiet Silent Loop 2 and the OS as well as Games are installed on a 1 TB 980Pro with heatsink from Samsung.

The GPU seems to be the problem here, since the black Screens are almost always coming with a Kernel Event 141. Now I tired everything that I could over the course of the past 6 months including opening and deep cleaning the GPU paired with applying new thermal Paste. Now that took roughly 8 degrees Celsius off of my Card in Idle as in Gaming but sadly wasn‘t flying the black Screens. Since i had the first black screen with this „new“ setup i read several times about a possible BIOS Update fixing the Problem. Not the GPU but the UEFI update. So I did that. First to BIOS 3067 now not even a week ago to the newest BIOS-version. Sadly the Issue is continuing. Two days ago I gave the Card to a friend who has my old Parts still Running in one of his Rigs and also there the Card is crashing especially on a 4k screen with high Details and almost any 3DMark scenario.
I cleaned the Connectors for the PCIe to PSU cable, also changed the cable altogether in hope of that fixing the issue. No luck. Of course I trief reinstalling Windows 10 as 11, I tired several different GPU drivers and would say I know my way around DDUing old drivers in Safe Mode. Kind of an expert by now seeing as how often I had to do that in the past months trying to figure out what the <Mod Edit> to do.

I‘ m playing Games mostly with that build, on a MSI Optix AG32CQ 1440p 144Hz Display.

So before I upgraded CPU, AiO, RAM and MB I had the i7 7700k on a z270 Gaming Pro Carbon with HyperX Fury 32GB DDR4 I believe 4200Mhz and a Sharkoon Bronze 650W PSU. As mentioned in the beginning I had the 2080 super installed. Never had any issues with that build in 1440p.

So guys I am at the end of my capabilities regarding that issue at hand and I read more than once of Tom‘s Hardware Forum being the Most competent out there. I can give more specific Information as needed (Timings of RAM, OC and non OC values etc.) even though loading vanilla values in BIOS was one of the first things I tried. Obviously didn’t help the cause.

I hope for any kind of input on this one, since I have literally no other thing to try besides flashing the GPU BIOS and I am Not gonna do that if I don’t really have to.

If this should turn out to be impossible to fix please let me know your recommendation for a new GPU fitting to my Hardware.

Thanks so much in advance..
Cheers

 

[ex_bubblehead]

Obviously the card has a problem as the issue moved to another system with it. As such things as schematics are not available your only course of action is to replace the video adapter, unless the card is still under warranty (very unlikely for a card of that vintage), in which case you get a warranty replacement.

 

[Lutfij]

Welcome to the forums, newcomer!

I would source(borrow, not buy) a similar spec'd discrete GPU and drop it into your system to see if you have any further instances of the issue mentioned above. As my colleague above has said, since the issue migrated with the card, the issue is with your card.

I would like to point out, that you should recreate your bootable USB installer for Windows 11, then install the OS in offline mode. Installing all necessary drivers with the latest versions in an elevated command, i.e, Right click installer>Run as Administrator, while in offline mode.

 

[TheMenny1562]

Welcome to the forums, newcomer!

I would source(borrow, not buy) a similar spec'd discrete GPU and drop it into your system to see if you have any further instances of the issue mentioned above. As my colleague above has said, since the issue migrated with the card, the issue is with your card.

I would like to point out, that you should recreate your bootable USB installer for Windows 11, then install the OS in offline mode. Installing all necessary drivers with the latest versions in an elevated command, i.e, Right click installer>Run as Administrator, while in offline mode.

Thanks for you response. I’ll definitely give Windows 11 another try, is there a reason why you specifically refer to windows 11? I literally had it Running for maybe two days before switching back to 10.

 

[TheMenny1562]

Obviously the card has a problem as the issue moved to another system with it. As such things as schematics are not available your only course of action is to replace the video adapter, unless the card is still under warranty (very unlikely for a card of that vintage), in which case you get a warranty replacement.

Thanks for your Input! Do you maybe have a recommendation for a new video adapter?