Possible GPU death

maxstill

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Alright, so I will try my best describing this very peculiar incident. Just a while ago I decided to update my motherboard bios, a MSI 970A-G46, so everything went just fine, no issues right after the update.
After about one week or so, I was watching a Twitch stream, when all of a sudden my display driver crashed, pc screen froze and restarted shortly after.
After the restart my resolution was messed up, so I changed it back to the regular one which resulted in yet another freeze, I used Guru 3d's DDU to clean up the drivers and install fresh ones, same result with the fresh drivers as well.
After multiple attempts at some point my display driver would not even start anymore, all drivers installed properly yet I was unable to utilise the GPU, I had no issues with the image, everything displayed correctly, so I decided to try cleaning and reinstalling the drivers for like the tenth time.
Disaster struck however after cleaning the divers with DDU again, this time upon restarting the system after the complete driver wipe, red horizontal lines started to appear all over the screen, these lines would appear on the darker colours, while magenta lines would appear on the lighter colours, appart from these lines everything still displays correctly, the system is still unable to detect the gpu, my MSI afteburner does not detect a gpu and I am unable to set my highest resolution, games also not running.
The card I am using is a Palit GTX 780ti Jetstream, never overclocked, temperatures never exceeding 70-74 degrees in full load with about 33 degrees while iddle, no issues with temperature on it, the card does not have warranty anymore.
Sorry for the poor text formatting, I am writing this message with a pesky smartphone.
 
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I do not think there's much you can do, if it is still in the RMA period I would opt for a replacement. If not ... well there's always the GPU oven baking crapshoot ..

if it is possible test it in another PC or another card in the PCIE slot to rule out the mobo, thats all you can do about it.
I do not think there's much you can do, if it is still in the RMA period I would opt for a replacement. If not ... well there's always the GPU oven baking crapshoot ..

if it is possible test it in another PC or another card in the PCIE slot to rule out the mobo, thats all you can do about it.
 
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