I bought a used MSI Aero 1080 Ti 11G OC around the release of the 2080 Ti for about $400 USD off of eBay. It was clearly used for bitcoin mining because the pictures from the ad were from a mining rig with multiples of the same card.
I didn’t have any issues initially, it ran amazingly well until just recently it started to have this issue where it doesn’t turn on right away from a cold boot. It will post, get to MSI Windows 10 splash/loading screen (MSI motherboard) but then display numerous white lines, go black and then to “No Display.” It stays like that until I hard reset my computer, then it works perfectly. Sometimes I’ll do the same thing, but when I get to the login screen, or just after logging in and on the desktop, it will display purple/pink artifacts and freeze. From there the display resets on its own or I have to hard reset the computer again. Worse case: it’ll sometimes have no display at all, even at start, blower fan will crank up to 100% fan speed and stay like this until it is hard reset.
I’m sure it’s my graphics card. I’ve swapped in my 1050 Ti that I had originally on both my original motherboard and the one I’ve since updated to and it works perfect even from a cold boot. I’ve used DDU, I turned off fast boot in Windows, changed all the power settings to maximum performance in Windows/NVIDIA control panel, I made sure the display was set to PEG0 in the BIOS, I’ve even upgraded to a higher rated PSU because I thought it might of not been getting enough power. I’ve flashed the current vBIOS for the card, I’ve rolled back/updated drivers. I feel like I’m out of options.
I’m worried it’s just going to die. It works when it works, but it’s just a pain sometimes. My wife thinks I should just buy a new graphics card, but I keep hoping it’ll last til Ampere.
TL;DR : Dying graphics card, what do?