My gpu is dying

[SunSeizer]

Long story short
2 weeks ago I was playing some Magic Arena and suddenly my screen froze, then went black... but i could ear the game was still going in the background.
So thought the problem what in the gpu, so i removed it, cleaned it to see if the problem was some dust accumulated in the years, but i was doubtfull because temperatures were not really high.
With my surprise that worked... at least for some time.
Today, i was again playing magic arena and... same story.
Restarted the pc and tryed to install now drivers for the gpu... froze again.
so Cleaned it again, changed the termal paste, but nothing worked
then I changed the pci slot were the gpu it's installed, worried that the first slot was bended over the years.
Started windows with some stuttering and this message appeared... 


Strange enough after this message windows is running "smoothly", probably because changed the graphic to integrated (but i'm still using the DVI on the gpu)

My gpu is a GTX 780 

[Metallus97]

Did you uninstall the drivers with DDU?

[SunSeizer]

2 minutes ago, Metallus97 said:

Did you uninstall the drivers with DDU?

humm no, I simply downloaded the newest ones

 

[Metallus97]

Just now, 4l45t0r said:

humm no, I simply downloaded the newest ones

 

Try that. This ensures to wipe the dirver 100% https://www.guru3d.com/files-details/display-driver-uninstaller-download.html

[SunSeizer]

6 minutes ago, Metallus97 said:

Try that. This ensures to wipe the dirver 100% https://www.guru3d.com/files-details/display-driver-uninstaller-download.html

ok I did it, but without restarting the pc because i'm pretty lazy and i don't want to change the DVI port :D, now what you think i should do?

I was thinking I cound download the new drivers again and restart the pc

 

 

2 minutes ago, yaboistar said:

if this continues after a DDU driver wipe - try re-flashing your gpu's bios

what's a reflash? 

[Metallus97]

1 hour ago, 4l45t0r said:

ok I did it, but without restarting the pc because i'm pretty lazy and i don't want to change the DVI port :D, now what you think i should do?

I was thinking I cound download the new drivers again and restart the pc

You have to do it in save mode to do it properly!

And when doing what @yaboistar recommended be 100000% sure to have the correct BIOS so there is no risk of you bricking the GPU

[BTGbullseye]

1 hour ago, 4l45t0r said:

ok I did it, but without restarting the pc because i'm pretty lazy and i don't want to change the DVI port :D, now what you think i should do?

Restart in safe mode and run DDU. It only takes 3 minutes. Then download the newest drivers and install them without any of the additional Nvidia stuff, (like GeForce Experience) just the drivers.

 

1 hour ago, yaboistar said:

re-writing the GPU bios with a copy of itself to overwrite any errors that may have appeared

Bad idea. That can change a glitching GPU into a permanently dead GPU very easily.