The Log Man

Okay. So. Update. I may be an idiot. I checked in Gen 4 mode. No boot. Reset to Gen 3. Booted immediately. Looked if FE 4070 cards have a 0db mode, didn't find a clear answer, but was prompted to double check Afterburner & GPU Tweak. And uh… I was able to mess with the fan settings. Just had to enable manual adjustment. I honestly fogured that there was some deeper issue to this but it turns out I was overthinking. I didn’t realize that pushing Gen4 signal thru a Gen3 riser would cause weird behavior like this. I thought it would just refuse to boot entirely. This is an excellent lesson for me but man… what a headache I went through for this conclusion…

I’m going to double check if it boots with Gen 4 selected. Also, I didn’t think the founders edition cards had a 0db mode? Its quite weird that I can’t edit the fan in GPU Tweak OR Afterburner too…

Also, another update; I got into windows after force rebooting a few times and the gpu fan was spinning BUT I couldn’t launch my game for some reason?? I then restarted, which led to a bit more boot-looping, but got into the bios and changed PCIe speed from Auto to Gen3; ir booted quickly and I can game but the gpu fan isn’t spinning. I think the Auto option for PCIe generation may have been causing the inconsistent boot-up behavior but I could be wrong. I’m really stumped on this one.

Damn that’s rough to hear. The guy did tell me the warranty is still valid and offered to share the original receipt. Didn’t seem that sketch. Hopefully I can get it RMA’d worst case. If so, would you know the timeline on that process? I’ll double check the riser Generation & BIOS setting too.

Hey all. I’ve been having some strange issues with my used 4070 FE. I upgraded from an EVGA 2080ti; with it in, everything worked perfectly fine and I was able to download the newest nvidia gpu & amd chipset drivers. I then installed the 4070 and its been acting strange since. I downloaded MSI Afterburner & Asus GPU Tweak III to check things and for some reason the fan control sections are greyed out in both; showing no data or click-able buttons. Currently, as I turn on my pc, the motherboard goes through the boot indicator lights and then gets stuck on white for VGA. It then stays there. After I press & hold the power button to shut down, then turn it on again, the American Megatrends screen pops up after some weird lines (see pic attached). The only option is F1 to enter the BIOS. From the A.M.t. screen to the BIOS, the display refreshes really slowly. I leave it set to ‘optimized defaults’, exit the bios, and it restarts. The white LED stays for a while but then it turns green for successful boot and goes into windows, at which point the GPU fan turns and stays off. Its not a 0db mode; the fan doesn’t spin back up when under load either. However it’s now running full 1440p resolution & shows up in task manager ‘performance’ tab but still nothing regarding the fan shows up in Afterburner or GPU Tweak. I would flash the vBIOS but the only version on TechPowerUp is the version I have already. The person I bought the card used from said they used it in an eGPU enclosure and had zero issues. My specs are: 4070 FE (stock 12 pin adapter) Ryzen 5600x Noctua NH-L9A ROG B550i 16gb 3733mt/s RAM Corsair sf750 platinum 750w (stock PCIe power cables) Fractal Design Ridge (stock PCIe riser) Let me know if there’s anything else I should include to help resolve this issue. Thanks, cheers

I recently bought a waterblocked 2080ti and a founder’s edition cooler with the intention of using it on air. I originally thought that I could use the screws from the water block to screw in the founder’s cooler & backplate but they ended up not fitting. does anyone know if / where I could find a set of the screws required for a founder’s edition 2080ti cooler to buy them??

So I’m looking at buying an MSI GS65 Stealth (RTX 2060) laptop but I’ve seen that 1440p 144hz+ is the best way to go for 15in laptops. Only problem is, high refresh rate 1440p laptops with the specs and designs I want are really out of my price range. I know that there are both 144hz AND 240hz 1080p panels available as screen replacements for the GS65 but I was wondering if the screens are standardized enough that I would be able to find a non-msi-gs65-specific panel that would be 1440p 144hz and would work with this laptop. Anyone know of any place I could find this or even if it’s at all possible? Also, on the subject of upgrades, are there any ~95wH batteries that would work with this laptop?

i actually just installed 2016 drivers and the system froze on this screen. this artifacting is different than it was doing before. does the artifacting + screw-y no windows load thing just mean bad silicon?

I bought this Asus Strix 980ti off ebay as “for parts or not working” but I put it on a test bench and got it to boot into windows. Now, the resolution is significantly lower than it should be and the card gets way too hot. It has a 0db mode but the fans to not kick up at all except for spinning for a moment after turning on the system. I understand that it is to be expected of this card to not work but I’m surprised that it turned on at all. I just want to see if there is any driver or vbios tweaks I could do to maybe make it work or if I just need to replace the bga chip itself. or maybe its something wrong with another part of the board? dunno, there doesn’t seem to be any damage to it. anywho, please shoot me suggestions.

well damn, guess I’ll just try to sell it again on ebay

How could I test the components? I have a multimeter but no experience using it. I just know that you can use one to test the components on the board. And if nothing is damaged, what would be worth salvaging and what could I do with them? maybe get a custom replica pcb printed and make a new card?? And on that, where would I find the exact resistors and capacitors and inductors n such? Sorry for too many questions haha I’m just trying to make this unfortunate $100 investment worthwhile.

yeah I know that it would work to get another 1070 board but I also know that manufacturers use the same boards across multiple different gpu SKU’s. that leads me to think that I would be able to move the gpu and ram chips over without problem. what, if anything, would make that cause problems / not work?

yeah I just don’t know if I can bypass that area. and if I can, I don’t know what I’d have to do to block it from shorting or what I should remove, if anything. any tips or recommendations on videos / sites to look for?

Well the burn in this board is near the cooler’s fan header so I think it would be possible to bypass fixing it or just seal it off somehow. The board I have is an EVGA reference 1070ti. I included a pic of what the board should look like (from NVIDIA) as well as the burn on my own card. Would this be something I could fix or just seal up and bypass? Also, the r33 inductor looks burnt out so I want to replace that too. I just can’t seem to find where to buy an exact replacement. Where would I get one and what SKU or manufacturer name is it?

Hey all! I’m new here and wanted to ask a question that I haven’t been able to find much information for elsewhere. So I bought a broken 1070 ti a few weeks ago hoping to repair it and use it. It wasn’t until I got it that I found that the board itself was burnt. I got it as what I hoped to he a cheap replacement for my current 1060 3gb but I don’t think I can fix or work around that burn in the pcb. So, I was thinking that I could possible desolder and resolder the gpu die and memory chips from the 1070 ti onto the board of my 1060. I have decent enough knowledge of soldering but is this operation at all possible? And if so, what would I have to do to make sure it works properly??