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Charling
By Charling
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I was working on a school project when out of the blue my screen goes black, I restart my computer and notice my gpu fan isnt starting, I have a mini 1080 with one fan so it overheats without that fan pretty quickly. I try again after a hour and still no video output, I try reconnecting all the cables, switching the pcie slot it was on and even just strapping a fan onto it. But none of these solutions work, is their a 1 out of a million chance that my gpu is still working? If their is can I fix this?

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At this point it’s hard to know if it’s hardware or software.  Hardware is very possible though.  Hardware Causes of fail during use most often include memory, PSU, and GPU.  

Not a pro, not even very good.  I’m just old and have time currently.  Assuming I know a lot about computers can be a mistake.

 

Life is like a bowl of chocolates: there are all these little crinkly paper cups everywhere.

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8 minutes ago, Bombastinator said:

At this point it’s hard to know if it’s hardware or software.  Hardware is very possible though.  Hardware Causes of fail during use most often include memory, PSU, and GPU.  

should i try and go for warranty? I think my card was made around 2018.

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10 minutes ago, Charling said:

should i try and go for warranty? I think my card was made around 2018.

I have no information as to what failed. Only that something did.  I don’t know what sort of warranty you have.

Not a pro, not even very good.  I’m just old and have time currently.  Assuming I know a lot about computers can be a mistake.

 

Life is like a bowl of chocolates: there are all these little crinkly paper cups everywhere.

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Same thing happened to me, but it still works, it just loses power in the middle of when I am using it, when I pulled it out, I noticed that some of the gold contacts on the the small part of the Card is fading, I tried using an eraser for it, but it only removed the dark marks around it, is there any way for me to fix this?

 

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3 hours ago, Charling said:

I was working on a school project when out of the blue my screen goes black, I restart my computer and notice my gpu fan isnt starting, I have a mini 1080 with one fan so it overheats without that fan pretty quickly. I try again after a hour and still no video output, I try reconnecting all the cables, switching the pcie slot it was on and even just strapping a fan onto it. But none of these solutions work, is their a 1 out of a million chance that my gpu is still working? If their is can I fix this?

You need to try the card in another system to verify if it is the card or another problem. 

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