I’ve had a MSI GTX970 for about 6 years now. I’ve taken it out of the case maybe a handful of times.
Yesterday I was trying to replace my power supply to get ready for an upgrade. I replaced my EVGA Supernova G3 550 with an EVGA Supernova G5 1000.
While taking it apart to replace wiring (my cousin recommended that I just replace all the wiring just to be sure), I cleaned the computer of dust and took the graphics card out (then outside) to clean it specifically of dust.
After cleaning it I put everything together and plugged a monitor in. Booted it and didn’t see anything. I reseated the graphics card (it turned out to be unseated) and tried again. Still no display.
I thought maybe the something was wrong with the display or graphics card power so I remoted into my computer to see if it had booted. It had. I then checked to see if Nvidia recognized my card. It didn’t.
I’ve since probed the PCIE pins with a multimeter to test for a short. There were two but with a fair amount of resistance and they seemed to be quite intermittent.
I then opened up the card, taking off the cooling fans and the plate and noticed what I believe to be burn marks on the card. See images. View: https://imgur.com/a/Xbu2qwT
I’m unsure of whether or not ESD can cause this amount of damage. I’ve heard that modern graphics cards (which I believe this to be) are pretty resilient against ESD.
I don’t have another graphics card to put in here. And I haven’t contacted EVGA yet because I’m pretty sure this just boils down to “my fault, suck it up”.
What are your thoughts? Anything else I can test?
Yesterday I was trying to replace my power supply to get ready for an upgrade. I replaced my EVGA Supernova G3 550 with an EVGA Supernova G5 1000.
While taking it apart to replace wiring (my cousin recommended that I just replace all the wiring just to be sure), I cleaned the computer of dust and took the graphics card out (then outside) to clean it specifically of dust.
After cleaning it I put everything together and plugged a monitor in. Booted it and didn’t see anything. I reseated the graphics card (it turned out to be unseated) and tried again. Still no display.
I thought maybe the something was wrong with the display or graphics card power so I remoted into my computer to see if it had booted. It had. I then checked to see if Nvidia recognized my card. It didn’t.
I’ve since probed the PCIE pins with a multimeter to test for a short. There were two but with a fair amount of resistance and they seemed to be quite intermittent.
I then opened up the card, taking off the cooling fans and the plate and noticed what I believe to be burn marks on the card. See images. View: https://imgur.com/a/Xbu2qwT
I’m unsure of whether or not ESD can cause this amount of damage. I’ve heard that modern graphics cards (which I believe this to be) are pretty resilient against ESD.
I don’t have another graphics card to put in here. And I haven’t contacted EVGA yet because I’m pretty sure this just boils down to “my fault, suck it up”.
What are your thoughts? Anything else I can test?