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For the last month my TV would blink black then back to the image, and it seemed to becoming more frequent, and ill be on my week off next week so I was going to take it apart and see if maybe something was lose, or looked wrong. And then this last Monday it just quit showing an image all together. I tried and different hdmi cord, different TV, I bought an adapter from display to hdmi, and I took my gpu out and it looked fine (no broken pins scratched solder). I was about to contact gigabyte and start the process to return the gpu to have it looked at. (Also the pc would boot just fine or it would seem that way it turned on no stopping fans didn't shut off then on it acted like it was going straight to windows like it should. Last night I tried the one thing I didn't think it could've been. I moved it to the lower pcie slot, and it came on just fine. No blinking screen so far or overheating (which it wasn't before but checked incase I didn't notice) and I guess I'm lost as to what happened. I have a gigabyte x570 motherboard thats not 3 months old, and has a reinforced pcie slot that the gpu was in. It sits behind my couch, and isn't moved touched nothing. Is this a problem with motherboards occasionally? Or gigabyte gpus super heavy compared to others? Gpu is a rtx 2080 super gigabyte Super Gaming OC 8G Graphics Card, 3X Windforce Fans. I just want to know if I should replace the mother board or if it'd be worth the potentially long wait because of the corona to send it in for repair. Thanks alot

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5 minutes ago, Tripping on my toes said:

For the last month my TV would blink black then back to the image, and it seemed to becoming more frequent, and ill be on my week off next week so I was going to take it apart and see if maybe something was lose, or looked wrong. And then this last Monday it just quit showing an image all together. I tried and different hdmi cord, different TV, I bought an adapter from display to hdmi, and I took my gpu out and it looked fine (no broken pins scratched solder). I was about to contact gigabyte and start the process to return the gpu to have it looked at. (Also the pc would boot just fine or it would seem that way it turned on no stopping fans didn't shut off then on it acted like it was going straight to windows like it should. Last night I tried the one thing I didn't think it could've been. I moved it to the lower pcie slot, and it came on just fine. No blinking screen so far or overheating (which it wasn't before but checked incase I didn't notice) and I guess I'm lost as to what happened. I have a gigabyte x570 motherboard thats not 3 months old, and has a reinforced pcie slot that the gpu was in. It sits behind my couch, and isn't moved touched nothing. Is this a problem with motherboards occasionally? Or gigabyte gpus super heavy compared to others? Gpu is a rtx 2080 super gigabyte Super Gaming OC 8G Graphics Card, 3X Windforce Fans. I just want to know if I should replace the mother board or if it'd be worth the potentially long wait because of the corona to send it in for repair. Thanks alot

Which Gigabyte x570 motherboard?  

 

Have you contacted Gygabyte to see how long of a wait a replacement motherboard is?

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The only reason i would replace that board is if other things about it you don't like.  Like the WiFI keeps dropping or temps aren't under control, etc...

 

The issue you are facing isn't normal from my experience but others on LTT might have a different opinion.

 

So personally I would try to get the board replaced over buying a new one. 

 

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Okay. I don't even use the wifi I just got the wifi one cause non wifi wasn't in stock for two weeks at the time. Temps are great on it too. I have an HTC pro, and boneworks maxed out gets it right around 72 for the gpu, and about 65 for the cpu. I have a giant noctua cpu cooler on it, so I was already trying to keep that way down. Thanks man ill call them up and see what they say then go from there. I'm really impatient, so if it takes longer than 2 weeks I'm probably just gonna buy another board, and then when the rebuilt one comes back ill just sell it on FB or something.

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@Tripping on my toes I just read an interesting article about the motherboard.  The PCIe slot might not be bad.   That slot is PCIe 4 compliant but your GPU is only PCIe 3.

 

The suggestion I read was to set the PCIe slot to 3 instead of allowing it to run at 4 and put the GPU back in the slot.   It seems the PCIe 4 implementation on that board might be buggy.  

 

I do not have experience with this board so I am not sure where in the bios this could possibly be set but it can't hurt to try.

 

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