(help) Pretty sure my 580 is fried

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nurturedhate

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It's an evga 580 superclocked. Was playing bf4 this morning and it hard locked. Had to reset. At boot there were lines going across the screen. Wouldn't boot into windows. Would boot into safe mode. Removed all drivers. Still no boot. Tried a different pcie slot, psu and completely different system. All same behavior. Wanted to try to mess with voltage and downclocking but can't get afterburner/precision to work in safe mode and can't get into normal win7.

Issue looks like a cross between these pictures.
http://img546.imageshack.us/img546/3299/img1049uh.jpg
http://s11.postimg.org/4hrn3sfoj/Evga_GTX_660_Ti_SC_02_G_P4_3662_KR_problem.jpg

Bought it in early 2011 I believe so it should still be under warranty but the worst part is the sticker on the back has fallen off somewhere along the way and Evga says they can't do anything without that sticker.

Can't exactly afford a new card. Wedding in Feb. 2014 and all money is going to it atm.

Any thoughts or suggestions appreciated!
 
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thilanliyan

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How did the sticker fall off?

Is it inside your case somewhere maybe?

Any old cards you can use for now?
 
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BallaTheFeared

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You can replace it for not a great deal of money, I'm pretty sure the 660 gives the same or better performance and they're under $200.
 
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Erenhardt

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If warranty is gone I would cook it crispy. Had the same issue with old EVGA 8800 GTS. Baking did helped. Used the card for 2 or 3 months, then sold it.
 
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nurturedhate

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No cards to replace it atm. Lent my old 4870 to my brother then moved across country. Running on the 4670k's igp, go go igp.

As for the sticker I noticed it was starting to fall off a year or so ago while cleaning my case/ gently removed it and placed it in its box and stored it away. Seems someone cleaned up that part of the garage and the box is now mia.

As for money, weddings and kids are excessively expensive. Would have the money for whatever I wanted after the wedding and had intentions of upgrading when 20nm came out but damn..
 
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BallaTheFeared

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Pretty sure baking was related to the brittle solder that occurred when they were forced to go lead free.

It's unlikely that reflowing the solder will help with a 580, but if you can't validate the warranty you might as well bake it and pull the chip off for a keychain.


Overclock the mother load out of your HD4600, not going to replace your 580 but you can get it pretty close to 8800 performance :| 2006 wasn't a bad year.
 
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no warranty? bake it (why is there a sticker for warranty on the gpu anyway?? that stuff is bound to fall off)
should work 99%. my 8800 did its job for 1 more year after baking and then sold it.
my ps3 and xbox360 still work after baking. i pretty much just do the cook when such stuff happens lol
 
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sucks about the sticker, try to find it/deal with customer support, EVGA is usually pretty good at that. If warranty is not an option, try baking, as mentioned. Or, there are plenty of decent cards for cheap these days, if you can spend between $100-$200.
 
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nurturedhate

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Initial signs are good. No artifacts and no crashing. Cleaned everything up really well. Time to see what temps are and then hope for the best.
 
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nurturedhate

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1.5 hours of BF4. No crashes. No artifacts. No nothing. Temps didn't go above 75c. All in all pretty good. Hope this lasts more than a couple days.
 
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Erenhardt

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Your cooking skill has increased by 1. GZ!
It is often good idea to change thermal compound after baking, but if temps are good and you don't want to bother...

BallaTheFeared said:
It's unlikely that reflowing the solder will help with a 580, but if you can't validate the warranty you might as well bake it and pull the chip off for a keychain.
Click to expand...
U dont say:p
 
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BallaTheFeared

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Well I'm surprised, but he might not have had the card seated properly ;)

We'll know if he's back in a week or two with the same problem.

Baking is more often than not a temporary solution.
 
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nurturedhate

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Still functioning today. I changed out the thermal compound long before I got to the baking as one of the steps I took in rectifying the problem. It definitely wasn't an issue with seating. The card was working properly since I swapped out my i5 2400 for this 4670k back in June/July? whenever newegg had the cpu/mb combo sale. The second thing I tried, after simply rebooting, was reseating the card, add in trying the other pcie slot, pulling the card and changing out the TIM and putting it back, trying it in another pc laying around here and then sticking it back into the old sandy system, it was not a seating issue.

Never had a card do this before. I had an old voodoo 3 3500 give up after about 10 years of use. Brother is still using my old sapphire 4870s that I thoroughly abuse and my mother is still using an evga 8800gt that I bought around xmas 2007.

I do agree though, I highly doubt that this is any form of long term solution. If I get 3 months out of it I will be ecstatic. On the bright side it is now working and I'm not out a gaming pc or cash... at the moment. Hopefully it will make it till March and we'll have a solid understanding of 780ti and aftermarket 290/x series cards and if need be pick one up then or maybe I'll get lucky and will be able to go with the original plan and be able to wait til 20nm comes out and buy a new card then.

I'll keep you all informed of this cards progress.
 
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Baking is done to re-solder any areas that's cracked and has bad contact, it melts the solder a little and when it cools it makes a good contact again.

I have no reason to believe that it's a temporary solution, I sold my friend my old 8800GTX when I upgraded and it didn't last him more than 6 months before it failed, so I pointed him to a baking guide and he tried that and it's worked ever since.

Obviously results vary though.
 
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