- Aug 30, 2017
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Hello yall,
today I'd like to seek your opinion on a peculiar issue I've been having, with rather painfull hit as of late.
For a while I've been having an issue with my old gpu GV-N108TAORUSX W-11GD being random screen going black no signal plus fans starting to spin at 100% and having to manually hit reset to do anything.
I've seen it a 1000 times and experienced it around 10 throughout all my rigs so just assumed it's the gpu dying. One time after such event and usual reset I encountered black screen with "please power down and connect the pcie power cable for this graphics card" which was new. Again assumed that's just next stage of death and with tears in my eyes bought the succesor GV-N308TGAMING OC-12GD.
Life was good for almost year after that, enjoyed the improved performance and even started to think about buying better refresh rate monitor then my 60hz Iiyama. When I found some spare time and money I decided to attemt a fix on the old gpu, so many years together and all plus while it might no have rtx it still was a great performancewise gpu capable of easily running anything at mex sets in full hd. Since it seemed problem was deeper then just dusting off and replacing thermal pads and paste I sent it to pc hardware wokrhop specializing in gpu restoration.
People there however soon contacted me and said they checked the gpu through and through and there is simply nothing wrong with it. I was quite suprised at first but shrugged it off to either luck or maybe they made a mistake or didn't check deep enough.
More time passed and since last week I started having same sudden strokes into black screen with max fans but with my new gpu this time. Yesterday evening had another such case, I was pretty mad due to this happening in the middle of Elden Ring boss fight, so instead of restarting I shut the rig down and went to cool off. When I got back however rig wouldn't power on no matter what I did. I went to sleep thinking "it's too late for this cr@p, I'll handle it tomorrow".
Well it didn't go well. Rig turns on, both motherboard and gpu lights on, fans spinning, no beep, no errors just black screen with no signal. I pulled the gpu out, noticed that despite being just powered on for few mintes not doing anything the backplate was incredibly hot. I swapped back the old 1080TI, same pci-e slot, nothing changed in other hardware, it runs fine. Meanwhile 3080TI seems to be dead, or in zombie mode considering no display but spins fans and flashes leds.
Do yall think that's just a strange coincidance or maybe I should investigate possible culprits in either motherboard or psu? As far as I know these are the only two things coming to my head that could somehow do this.
today I'd like to seek your opinion on a peculiar issue I've been having, with rather painfull hit as of late.
For a while I've been having an issue with my old gpu GV-N108TAORUSX W-11GD being random screen going black no signal plus fans starting to spin at 100% and having to manually hit reset to do anything.
I've seen it a 1000 times and experienced it around 10 throughout all my rigs so just assumed it's the gpu dying. One time after such event and usual reset I encountered black screen with "please power down and connect the pcie power cable for this graphics card" which was new. Again assumed that's just next stage of death and with tears in my eyes bought the succesor GV-N308TGAMING OC-12GD.
Life was good for almost year after that, enjoyed the improved performance and even started to think about buying better refresh rate monitor then my 60hz Iiyama. When I found some spare time and money I decided to attemt a fix on the old gpu, so many years together and all plus while it might no have rtx it still was a great performancewise gpu capable of easily running anything at mex sets in full hd. Since it seemed problem was deeper then just dusting off and replacing thermal pads and paste I sent it to pc hardware wokrhop specializing in gpu restoration.
People there however soon contacted me and said they checked the gpu through and through and there is simply nothing wrong with it. I was quite suprised at first but shrugged it off to either luck or maybe they made a mistake or didn't check deep enough.
More time passed and since last week I started having same sudden strokes into black screen with max fans but with my new gpu this time. Yesterday evening had another such case, I was pretty mad due to this happening in the middle of Elden Ring boss fight, so instead of restarting I shut the rig down and went to cool off. When I got back however rig wouldn't power on no matter what I did. I went to sleep thinking "it's too late for this cr@p, I'll handle it tomorrow".
Well it didn't go well. Rig turns on, both motherboard and gpu lights on, fans spinning, no beep, no errors just black screen with no signal. I pulled the gpu out, noticed that despite being just powered on for few mintes not doing anything the backplate was incredibly hot. I swapped back the old 1080TI, same pci-e slot, nothing changed in other hardware, it runs fine. Meanwhile 3080TI seems to be dead, or in zombie mode considering no display but spins fans and flashes leds.
Do yall think that's just a strange coincidance or maybe I should investigate possible culprits in either motherboard or psu? As far as I know these are the only two things coming to my head that could somehow do this.
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