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Thanks for the run down. I'll try this and report if it works. Thanks a bunch!

Thanks for the help! So how do I spray-down and wipe-down? Are they two different things? Sorry, I am a complete amateur with this. I only know to put parts together and inter mediate troubleshooting

There is some discoloration at the gold points where the card sits in the slot. I'll try spraying it with a PCB Contact cleaner provided I find any since I live in India and I doubt they'll have that here at the local stores. And a brake cleaner? Link Is this okay?

My bad. So the PCIe slots seem to be working fine. I installed a GTX 970 and it booted up just fine. I installed the drivers and everything worked as it should. I'm concluding that it's the graphics card that has gone bad. How do I check the PCB for damage/corrosion? It seems okay for an untrained eye.

I haven't cleaned it with isopropyl alcohol and I have let it air out for 2 days now. Thanks for the advice. I'll now clean it with the alcohol solution. I haven't got another PC but I did suspect that perhaps the slow is dead. I took the board to the local ASUS Service Center and they gave it a thumbs up saying everything seems to be working fine. They even booted the Mobo using an Nvidia Quadro and that GPU worked just fine. I have asked my neighbor to lend me his GTX 970 for a couple of hours to test my PCIe slots. Should I test my GPU in his setup as well?

Hey Everyone, This is my first post on LTT. I haven't been active much on the forums. I hope you all kind gentlemen will hear out my problem. I have a Sapphire HD 7970 Dual X edition which has been dead (I presume) for sometime. I am trying to resurrect it since I don't have the funds to buy a new graphics card at the moment. I tried baking it in the oven (Conventional Oven) on 200° C for 10 minutes as I researched that baking a graphics card might bring it back alive. But that did not work. I am running an Intel 3770k on an Asus Sabertooth Z77. When I place the GPU on either of the PCIe x16 slots, the UEFIO Bios detects the card but the link speed is x0. Is there any chance I could somehow bring my GPU back to life? Should I try baking it more? Any advice is appreciated. Thank you