Radeon 7970 - Did it just die of old age?

[k-l-e]

Hello everyone.

For some time now I've been having frequent crashed when in-game. These are crashes that display a weird graphic glitch, where the screen goes one color, or several other colors/patterns. I completely removed the graphics drivers and reinstalled them together with windows 10 updates. After that I saw some improvement.

But yesterday, it happened again. And when I rebooted my computer, I didn't get any image or response up on my monitor. My GPU is connected via a DVI-cable, so I tried with an HDMI, same thing. And I hooked up my monitor to my laptop, and the monitor works fine. my card is 5 years 3 months old. And I've never tweaked any components in my computer.

So, did my Radeon 7970 just die?



Specs:

Radeon 7970
I7-2600k
ASUS p8p67 LE
8 gb 1333 mhz ddr3 ram
650W corsair PSU
Windows 10 64 bit

 

[RCFProd]

It could very well have died. RIP 🙁.

Sounds like it did a decent job lasting 63 months.

 

[k-l-e]

It could very well have died. RIP 🙁.

Sounds like it did a decent job lasting 63 months.

What I feared. I'm so sad. It's still such a good card for it's age. And I just missed the warranty by 3 months 🙁

 

[zdbc13]

Often the solder joints go bad so you might try cooking it - https://lifehacker.com/5823227/save-dying-video-cards-with-a-quick-bake-in-the-oven

I just revived an HD 6870 that way. Tried it on an old GTX 580 I got cheap on ebay and it revived it for about 10 minutes and then it started artifacting again. I'm going to try again a little longer and hotter.

 

[k-l-e]

I did the baking procedure. And it surprisingly worked. It was a pain to remove the old thermal paste, so I'm hoping the temperatures are OK. I don't know how well the vmemory pads will work either.

 

[RobCrezz]

Did you apply some new paste after baking?

 

[k-l-e]

Did you apply some new paste after baking?

I did, arctic silver. Seems to be around 75 C in overwatch.

 

[RCFProd]

Wow, nice to see it worked!

 

[The Paladin]

I have saved a number of older video cards given to me as "broken" from friend going " your a wizard, see if you can fix this.... lol I love getting free video cards, last one was a 750TI. cold solders are not limited to older video cards.