GTX 560-ti hardware fault and out of warranty

[arjunbkool]

Hi,
my card seems to have blown out. The cause of it is not yet clear to me. It had been working perfectly well until one day suddenly, without any reason my monitor all turned fuzzy and has remained so ever since. I tried RMA but palit says its timed out. Maybe a few days before and I might have got it replaced. Any chance this can be repaired? I have heard people 'bake' their cards. Is it worth a try?

see my screenshots here-
http://postimg.org/gallery/aqitzjkk/


Also i think my motherboard could be faulty..the service guy said, because one of the pins of my processor slot is slightly bend..i have to turn on my task manager everytime i open windows or else everything runs damn slow. Maybe the cores do not work properly when not monitored or thats just my wild guess. MEM test and hard disk all checks out fine. So, could this also be a cause for my card failure? I would like to know before I get a new one.

and on second thoughts i am not going to try and fry my GPU..wont be able to stand the sight 🙁 🙁

 

[carowden]

With repairs like that (baking the card, etc) if you even get it to work, it likely wont last long. I would look into buying a new one.

 

[Roland Of Gilead]

Hi,
my card seems to have blown out. The cause of it is not yet clear to me. It had been working perfectly well until one day suddenly, without any reason my monitor all turned fuzzy and has remained so ever since. I tried RMA but palit says its timed out. Maybe a few days before and I might have got it replaced. Any chance this can be repaired? I have heard people 'bake' their cards. Is it worth a try?

see my screenshots here-
http://postimg.org/gallery/aqitzjkk/

Baking PC hardware has come up a few times recently. I've never done it, but am intrigued by it. There are supposedly some videos of it on Youtube, but all the links I've tried are dead.
Seemingly you set your oven at 375 F and bake it anywhere from 5-8 mins. However, it's an unknown quantity, in that there's no standardised way of doing it. Mostly 'have a go and see' kind of experiment. Seeing as the card is effectively fried, and out of warranty, give it a go and see. Let us know how you get on though. Good luck

 

[delmetor]

Have you tried it in another computer? Are you sure it's not a monitor health or configuation issue?

If indeed it is a hardware damage, there could be a lot of possible problems in a GPU hardware, founding it is a very hard and delicate work that's impossible to do through the net. If it worth a try, you could pay some specialist.

That's all i got. Hope it helps someway.

 

[J_E_D_70]

Just personal experience, I baked my 8800GTX three times over the course of a year to limp it along (finally got tired of doing it). Each time the "fix" lasted shorter than the last. I did 385F for 8 minutes. Have to remove the heatsink and shroud, any stickers, the aluminum grill on the back if there is one. Also need extra thermal paste handy - make sure to clean off all the old paste with isopropyl alcohol.

I'd only do this as a last resort.

 

[arjunbkool]

Have you tried it in another computer? Are you sure it's not a monitor health or configuation issue?

If indeed it is a hardware damage, there could be a lot of possible problems in a GPU hardware, founding it is a very hard and delicate work that's impossible to do through the net. If it worth a try, you could pay some specialist.

That's all i got. Hope it helps someway.

yaa..i have tried and failed..it shows the same error 🙁 ..btw, is there any place in the world where people actually repair GPU's? I know there are none close to where I live. Just hoping to fix it someday.