Safe to assume GTX 590 is dead?

[Stuky]

To start with, I was getting a black screen prior to logon. I went through the normal steps:
Reinstalled drivers, tried older drivers, ran chkdsk, ran memtest
None of these worked and I got a few BSOD with code 116 at times. The only thing that has let me start windows normally was removing the driver altogether...obviously loading just the default vga driver like safe mode (which worked fine).

The card itself is a eVGA GTX 590 Classified that I've had for about 3 years. The card still has power and is detected (shows under device manager). Now, I have had issues with some games in recent months. BF3 ran horribly for instance, yet when I first played it back when it came out I had no issues at all. I've tried Star Citizen which had crazy artifacts, but that seems to be an SLI issue thats known (though it supposedly has fried a few cards...).

I just now replaced it with my old 295 and have no issues whatsoever.

So all this leads me to believe the card itself is dead, I just want to get some opinions before I go out and buy a new one or hope eVGA covers it under "limited lifetime warranty" as they claim.

Any help appreciated.

 

[snowctrl]

It is possible that the card is overheating or that there is an insufficient power issue - it would be worth checking both those things before committing to a new card.

 

[Stuky]

It is possible that the card is overheating or that there is an insufficient power issue - it would be worth checking both those things before committing to a new card.

Thanks for the quick answer snow.

I have considered these, however this setup has run for over 3 years without issue. I have not made any hardware changes since. For overheating, I do sometimes check the temps and it always seemed within norm (last time was about a month ago). I also clean out the dust when it seems to build up. For power, the 295 I have in here now is using the same connections as the 590 and is fine. I realize the 295 draws less power, but would you still think thats the issue? Not sure how to check (no spare PSU that could even handle it...)

 

[boju]

Sorry for your potential loss, this seems familiar with my old GTX580. Blanking out screens/Nvidia.sys crashes and finally nail in the coffin with failed to launch opengl in halflife 1.

Replaced with 770 and computer went on fine. This is in another computer not the one in my sig.

I would get in contact with eVGA and pull them on the lifetime warranty might get a newer generation card with similar specs.