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Cassy95

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  1. So I did once, last night, get a BSOD that said memory error. I usually never get a BSOD with this problem so I pursued this and ran a Windows Memory Diagnostic test, which detected no problems. I can try turning off the xtreme memory profile and see if that helps. I might try buying a PSU to swap it out and see if the computer is stable then. Edit: I should add this is a relatively new computer that is only a year old. You could say that I have been having these issues since day one.
  2. Hey forums! I have a problem that I want to describe and hopefully someone here has some insights. This problem occurs whenever power to my computer is cut either through a power out or if I unplug the computer myself. When I power the computer back up it works fine, but will eventually just completely freeze up as in the picture on the monitor freezes, keyboard and mouse inputs are not recognized, and random inputs such as turning on and off the Caps lock don't register (I tell this by observing if the caps lock led indicator on the keyboard lights up or not). The time the computer is powered on seems to be random before the freeze up happens, but does seem to happen faster if I am running a game or something that is more demanding of the computer's resources. The other kicker is that this issue usually seems to go away by itself, after suffering through half a dozen or so freezes and letting the computer sit overnight the problem typically goes away. I believe its hardware related because this problem occurred before and after I did a complete wipe and reinstalled my OS. I suspect the PSU currently; I don't have any hard evidence, but since it really only seems to occur after power had been removed to the PC that it must be something power related. My PSU is a EVGA P2 1000W and I have the Eco Mode set to off. Just for good measure, the temperatures on the CPU and GPU are well below tolerance when this happens. Does anyone have any thoughts?
  3. I mean, I am using the exact same graphite thermal pad for my cpu with zero issues. However, even though the temps weren't that bad under the graphite pad, I guess switching the paste might've been the fix. Other than that, the only thing I changed was leaving the computer on overnight. So *shrug*
  4. The thermal paste I was referring to was the stock paste before I opened the card. I originally replaced it with a piece of IC Graphite Thermal Pad, and it seemed like it was properly distributing the heat. However, out of desperation, last night I applied Kryonaut to the card and took off the graphite; the computer still crashed after this, but leaving it over night seems to have fixed the problem some how?
  5. Okay, so the card seems to stable as far as I can tell. I just ran the Division 2 benchmark at 100% power limit 10 times in a row without a crash. Before, it might complete one run through before crashing. I'm not sure why it is stable again. The last thing I did last night was put Kryonaut on the die and put it back in my PC. The computer still crashed after this. I left the computer on overnight, no crashes. I then was able to run the benchmark at 100% 5 times this morning and then just now the 10 more times, no crashes. So, my only guess is that maybe the kryonaut settled or maybe something is wrong with the PSU and it has trouble providing required power so soon after it has been unplugged/plugged back in? I don't know; I'm just confused.
  6. This is just something odd I observed, but don't really know if it is telling of something. I have been dealing with video card issues recently, but could have sworn (but not 100% sure) that before my issues started when running a particular benchmark multiple times I received the exact same performance score. However, now when I run it the score fluctuates by about .5% every time I run it, and the score is about 2% less than the score I was getting before my issues started. So back to the topic of my question, do benchmark scores normally have this kind of variation?
  7. My PSU is a Crosair HX1200; it can be toggled between single and multi rail, mine is set to single. Sure, let me try to touch on all your questions. 1. I bought the RTX 2080 ti new and have had it for a year; I've had zero critical issues with it in that year. My PSU is a Crosair HX1200. 2. I opened the card because the gpu temps were creeping upwards and causing the fans to hit 90-100% when under load. Some research I did pointed to poor quality and application of the stock thermal paste. I was opening up the card to replace the thermal paste. 3. While I was working on fixing my gpu I was using an old GTX 970 on a previous build, which, while I never really placed any load on it, it ran fine. With my current build I have only ever used the RTX 2080 ti up until now. 4. I live in the U.S. Update since my last post: I ran the card overnight in idle, no crashes. This morning I started to try and put it through a stress test to see if I could crash it. I started by putting the power limit to 50%; I was able to run the Division 2 benchmark 5 times without crashing, I have never been able to do this this many times. I then increased the power limit back to 100% and was again able to run the benchmark 5 times without crash. So I am just at a lost; its so bizarre, I changed nothing, but now the system is running way more stable than it was before I went to sleep. Temps during the benchmark, at 50% Power Limit > 58c max and at 100% Power Limit > 75c max
  8. Leaving the computer on idling overnight did not crash. Since this specific problem started happening after the first time I took the gpu apart, if something messed up it had to have happened at that time. The only thing I can think of is the thermal padding on the vrm, vram, etc is not properly protecting from the heat; that is the only major change that happened after the first time I took the card apart. Temps settle at about 30c after idling for a while. Can overheating VRAM cause this issue? The VRM still has the stock thermal padding so I don't think that is the issue. Edit: Any thought on this possibly being a PSU problem?
  9. Ok, I popped open the card and took off the IC Graphite Thermal Pad and applied some Kryonaut I had in an X shape over the die. Temps were definitely cooler, by about 8-9c maybe. I ran the Division 2 benchmark once and it completed, ran it a second time and computer locked up crashed during the second benchmark. This is bizarre, it does seems like its heat related, but maybe not with the gpu? The card only crashes after it heats up after putting a load on it. No matter what the load is it seems like the card can handle it until it heats up enough to crash. I should add that I replaced some of the stock thermal pads with Arctic thermal pads after they tore from taking the card apart. This is my first time installing thermal pads, but I ended up touching them a lot with my fingers. Also, I'm pretty sure the stock thermal pads on the vram were 1mm, but weren't super firm whereas the Arctic ones are so I ended up using .5mm to replace the stock. Not sure if these two things could potentially cause the issues I am having?
  10. Pretty sure the warranty was voided when I opened the card up. Before I opened the card, when gaming the fan would shoot to 90-100% rpm and temps got up to 80-85c. Looking online other people said the thermal paste was crap in the 2080's. I opened it up and it looked in bad shape; adding a IC Graphite Thermal Pad reduced temps, but now I have the issue described above. This is why I won't ever buy another Gigabyte card; spend over $1k for a card and the thermal paste doesn't last a year. I wasn't going to send my card in to get the thermal paste replaced. EDIT: Let me add a bit more info, I'm not actually sure if these would cancel my warranty. The card is still within its warranty period. The Card: Aorus Extreme RTX 2080 ti Maker: Gigabyte Noticeable Things From Me Working on Card: - Broken wire going to fan/heat sink assembly (This is a non-esstenial wire that powers the "Fan Stop" light on the side of the card) - New Arctic thermal pads; the original ones tore when I pulled the card apart. - Top of a screw mount broke off so I cannot screw a screw into this part of the board (doesn't seem to effect heat dissipation on the gpu) - Thermal paste removed and replaced with an IC Graphite Thermal Pad
  11. Pretty sure the warranty was voided when I opened the card up. Before I opened the card, when gaming the fan would shoot to 90-100% rpm and temps got up to 80-85c. Looking online other people said the thermal paste was crap in the 2080's. I opened it up and it looked in bad shape; adding a IC Graphite Thermal Pad reduced temps, but now I have the issue described above. This is why I won't ever buy another Gigabyte card; spend over $1k for a card and the thermal paste doesn't last a year. I wasn't going to send my card in to get the thermal paste replaced.
  12. Using MSI Afterburner, I set my power limit from 100% to 70%. I ran Unigine Heaven on Extreme for about a minute and then ran Division 2's benchmark on Ultra settings which completed. So, I would say this is more than I have been able to do before. However, when I tried reloading the Division 2's benchmark for a second run through my comp crashed. I could try lowering the power limit more, but I feel like it would be roughly the same. I will be able to do more for longer, but it will eventually crash. Just web browsing and sitting on the desktop doesn't seem to crash the comp.
  13. Hey guys, I have had a hard week long journey (link to my original post below) trying to repair my RTX 2080 ti after taking it apart to try replace the thermal paste with an IC Graphite Thermal Pad. I have fixed a series of subsequent problems, but I am back at the original problem that I faced after first reinstalling the card after my maintenance. Here is what I am facing, what do you guys make of it? My RTX 2080 ti is kind of working; I am actually using it now as I type this post. However, whenever I try to do anything that puts a reasonable load on the card it will eventually crash. There is no rhythm to the crashes, which makes my whole computer lock up and require a hard reboot. I've ran the Unigine Heaven benchmark for a few minutes at Extreme before my computer crashed. I ran the Division 2's benchmark which completed and then crashed. The behavior of crashes makes me think its something heat related since the card can run fine at nearly 100% for a bit before it will crash. The Temps on the gpu itself have been running fine; I'm using Precision X1 to measure gpu temps and never seen them get above 80c or have I heard the fans go above 90% rpm. When the computer crashes I put my hand to the back-plate of the card and it is quite warm to the touch; nothing that burns me, but just feels hot. I'm just kind of at a loss because, I've been encountering this problem since the first time I put the card back together. What could be causing it? Is it heat? Faulty component? The only thing I have left to try is to reapply thermal paste and get rid of the graphite pad. What do you guys think? https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/1162923-help-this-bonehead-save-his-1400-video-card/?tab=comments#comment-13358323
  14. You are the real hero; thank you! thank you!
  15. Yep, they were plugged in originally. Good idea about watching waterblock videos; I've been watching disassembly videos, but your idea is probably the better route.
  16. Okay, a little more context; I have another thread where I talk about my efforts to replace thermal paste on this card because it was running very hot. I took care of the thermal paste, which was in frustratingly bad shape for a card this expensive and is only a year old. Anyway, one of the wires for the circled connectors broke when trying to pull it out of the board. I am planning for a shop to fix the wire, but I wanted to make sure that the card is working before I pay to have the wire fixed. So basically want to make sure the card is functional before getting the wires fixed; I had to fix some other issues with the card, but want to know if the card is still not working then it might be a larger problem with the card and not the unplugged wires.
  17. My video card is a Aorus Extreme RTX 2080 ti; below is a picture of it. Does anyone know or have a reasonable guess at what the circled ports are for? There are four ports for wires from the fan assembly (I numbered them in the picture); there are three fans with RGB on the fan assembly. I am trying to figure out if not having the wires for these two circled ports plugged in will cause the video card to fail. Thank you!
  18. Sorry, my wording might've been a little confusing, but yeah that is what the picture is showing. I just didn't take it very seriously because this cable is to plug the fans into the gpu. Not exactly sure what it controls, but the fans seemed to operate fine without it. My guess was that it controlled the RGB maybe? I plan to try and fix it tomorrow by dropping it off at a repair shop. Just want to let someone more skilled at fixing broken wires to take care of this problem for me.
  19. So I was dealing with something similar with my Aorus Extreme RTX 2080 ti. When playing The Division 2 for the last week, my gpu temps would push 75-80c and the fan would ramp up the rpm's to 90-100% for a few seconds then calm down as temps dropped. I concluded that the issue was because the thermal paste was poor quality in the first place and had broken down after a year of use. I found a lot of other people having a similar issue with their 2080's. I ended up opening up the card and cleaning the paste (which was in bad shape) and replacing it with a graphite pad instead. My gpu temps seemed to had dropped about 10-15c, but then I ran into other problems that I am currently dealing with. Here's my thread about my scenario if you are interested:
  20. Quick follow-up question; what should I buy if I was going to replace the thermal pad/tape shown here https://imgur.com/a/tMFA4ST ?
  21. It will basically do both; I can force a crash so to speak by trying to install video drivers (it will always crash at the same spot in the process), but if I do nothing the computer will eventually crash (maybe after 5-7 minutes). I actually tried once plugging the broken card back in after I had the GTX 970 plugged in. I successfully installed the drivers with the GTX 970 in and then tried putting the RTX 2080 back in the case. The card seemed to recognize the drivers as the video wasn't displaying in super low resolution anymore (which it started doing after the first crash when installing the drivers). I proceeded to try and install the drivers again to see if with the RTX 2080 plugged back it would complete successfully now. The installation process got a lot farther, but ultimately still crashed. Sure, the broken screw is for the hole slightly off screen in the bottom right of the original picture. I also found another picture directly below that shows the hole. What actually broke here is on the fan/heat sink assembly there is a mount for the screw to screw into; part of the top of this mount broke off. For the wire, I marked the connector mount in the second picture too and tried to point it at the pin that broke off. To be clear the mount shown in the picture below is fine, its the wire/connector coming off the fan assembly; the cord going in the connector slot that would align with the far left mount pin shown below snapped off from the connector. The pin it was crimped to is still in the three pin connector. Here are two pictures of my card to show the damage: - Wire Damage: https://imgur.com/a/MY3WGMN - Screw Mount Damage: https://imgur.com/a/XSd0Ydp Your third point motivated me to disassemble the card to take picture. From the first time I took apart the card the thermal pads were all over the place and even though I tried to place them in the correct places I'm not sure everything is properly covered (in fact after inspection for the pictures I added below there is a whole section missing thermal pad coverage). Here are some labeled pictures of my disassembled card: https://imgur.com/a/KqwcgOm Additionally, here is a picture of the left side of the video card where I can see issues with thermal pad coverage: https://imgur.com/a/tMFA4ST I will disassemble the backplate to inspect the bottom here soon.
  22. Hello Everyone, I was recently doing some maintenance on my Aorus Extreme RTX 2080 ti and now it is exhibiting behavior that makes it unusable. Here is a breakdown of the why, how, and where I am at now; directly below is an image of the bare video card board I found on the internet, which I labeled for easy visuals: https://imgur.com/a/Q9HPOW1 Why: I have had my video card about a year now and for the past week the card would start pushing 80c while playing a graphically intensive game. The fans would shoot up to 90-100% rpm and it became very distracting. After doing some research I concluded that the thermal paste had probably dried out and was not properly transferring heat anymore; this is apparently a common problem with RTX 2080 ti's. How: I took the GPU out of the case and unscrewed the fan/heat sink assembly from the card. Slowly, I pulled it apart until I got to the first of two three pin connectors that connect the fans to the card. Here is where I hit my first problem; the second three pin connector felt like it was practically glued in and was not coming out easily. I ended up ripping off the left most wire (the one closest to the first connector) in the connector. The link above shows a picture of which connection I mean (Labeled 1). I continued to pull the assembly apart, but the thicker 8 pin connectors were not coming out easily either so I ended up just leaving them plugged in and resting the fan/ heat sink assembly on its side so the whole video card made an "L" shape. A quick inspection of the video card confirmed my suspicions; the thermal paste was dry, cracked, and very thinly applied. Kind of frustrated with Gigabyte here since they could've used better thermal paste for a $1400 card, but whatever. I went to work cleaning off the thermal paste from the gpu using 70% isopropyl alcohol (couldn't find anything higher in stores due to coronoavirus fears causing a run on all antiseptics), cotton swabs, coffee filters, a toothbrush (to get some of the more stubborn gunk that got between the components around the gpu), and a couple paper towels. I never cleaned outside of the gpu, the bottom of the heat sink, and the green area around the gpu (Labeled 2 in the picture). I also used a compressed air can to blow off any leftover particles on the board. Once it was all clean I decided to go with a piece of IC graphite thermal pad instead of more thermal paste. I reassemble the card and screw everything back together, even plugging back in the connector with the ripped wire (the ripped wire was left dangling). I do notice that one of the mounts for a screw at the corner of the board was made of plastic and part of the top broke off; I just left this hole empty since the screw wouldn't screw in now, and it doesn't seem like it would cause any significant problems. Anyway, I plug the card back in my computer and boot up. Everything seems to be working fine and I launch my game and EVGA Precision X1 to see how temps are doing on the gpu. If accurate it looks like my card was running 10-15c cooler than before. I was thrilled, but after maybe 5 minutes in game my computer freezes, and my heart sinks. Where I Am At Now: Every time I boot my computer the same thing happens, it runs fine for usually just under 7 minutes and then just crashes. I have proceeded to disassemble the card a few more times to see if there was anything I didn't clean. I even tried plugging the card back into the computer, but leaving both three pin connectors unplugged on the card. The card looks pretty clean and I don't see any black marks that would indicate a short circuit. I tried reinstalling the video drivers, but that failed and caused the computer to crash again. Now, anytime I try to install video drivers it automatically crashes the computer, which requires a reboot (maybe significant, the computer will reboot itself after being frozen for roughly 15 seconds; I don't need to hard boot the computer). Additionally, after crashing I put my hand up to the heat sink and it doesn't feel hot so I don't think it is overheating. I eventually pulled out an old GTX 970 I had and plugged that into the computer, and it runs fine. Possibly notable, when inspecting the area between the video card board and the back plate I noticed a tiny amount of some yellowish material on a component close to the DP port connectors that I brushed away. I never actually removed the back plate at anytime. Now What: I haven't lost hope yet especially since it doesn't look like the card is actually damaged (other than the ripped wire and broken screw hole), and seeing people bring their video cards back from the dead (even after a serious short circuit) makes me think there is a fixable solution for my video card. The only thing I can think of is that the wire I ripped is actually causing the video card to crash for some reason. I can try getting that one wire repaired, but what do you guys think? I could disassemble it again and take pictures if that might help?
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