Possibly shorted my gpu?

[AllaboutPC]

I was really exited for my first water cooled build, and I set everything up, leak-tested it for 8 hours, and then fired the system up.

 

The first day I had my system I played a bit of Titanfall beta and everything was running fine, except for one very small leak on the out port on the pump, which only formed a small dropped held by surface tension.

The temps never got above 45 C on both the GPU and the CPU while under load.

 

The second day, I booted my pc and... Bluescreen. F#*@

 

My GPU is the EVGA 780 classified. I overclocked it by 50 mhz on the gpu after watercooling and it ran smoothly. I did no overvolting.

OTHER SPECS:

CPU - Intel 4770k w/ EKWB waterblock @ 3.9 ghz

GPU - EVGA 780 classified w/ EKWB 'classy' block

MOBO - Asus Maximus VI gene

PSU - Corsair AX 860

RAM - 4x Corsair dominator platinum 2300 mhz 4gb

CASE - Corsair Obsidian 350D

DRIVES - 1x Samsung 840 pro 250 gb and 1x wd 2tb caviar black

WC - 1x slim 240mm rad and 1x 240mm XSPC 240mm rad all with noiseblocker pk-ps fans

 

Upon various pondering, I realized that a strip came with the gpu to put on the VRM/power delivery section of the card to prevent any shorting, and I forgot to put it on.

I tested every component, and when I replaced the gpu with a 650 ti, the pc booted fine.

 

I removed the waterblock on the card and put on the stock cooler, but I have not tested it at all for fear that it would blow up something or worsen the problem

 

 

Is there anything I can do to save the card? Would the card be fine now? Will and RMA be possible? Thanks for the help, guys!

 

EDIT:

Pic of the strip:

[acidydragon]

Try it with the stock block... If it's dead, it wont hurt it.

If it works, cool...

If not, try the RMA... They MIGHT take it... Might not.

[AllaboutPC]

Try it with the stock block... If it's dead, it wont hurt it.

If it works, cool...

If not, try the RMA... They MIGHT take it... Might not.

Thanks. I'll try next week. Hopefully it works!

[AllaboutPC]

Try it with the stock block... If it's dead, it wont hurt it.

If it works, cool...

If not, try the RMA... They MIGHT take it... Might not.

It works!

[acidydragon]

It works!

Awesome!