Dead Graphic Card ?

[Sainwave]

Hi all!

 

So i have an old Asus STRIX GTX 980ti card that has served me great thrue the years (since 2015). It still is a valid card for 1080p gaming even these days and because of the shortage its value is even greater since getting a replacement or upgrade is how it is...

 

So i recently had a nice crash playing Valheim (not the first time..) that could only be recovered from by hard rebooting the system(nothing new...). When i got back the screen was just black. I rebooted again and now i got into windows (albeit it took way longer than usual and i only had one of my monitors output anything). so i went into device manager and was welcomed by a exclamationmark in a yellow triangle on my card saying a code 43 on it.

 

To not make this longer than it has to i have tried all the different methods of "solving" the code 43 error - clean driver install (with DDU), reseating, rollback of drivers, switching to a new PSU, etc. Nothing has worked.

I also booted up in a different windows install on a different drive, same(ish) story there. First a black screen -> Reboot -> finally got image but it was distorted as hell (major artifacting so you cant really see anything) -> Reboot again -> got (very very low res) image and saw code 43 on the card in device manager. Now the interesting part of all this is I still had my monitor plugged into the graphic card, so the signal did go thrue it and output image on screen, for both windows installs.

As said above, i've tried everything except baking the card, which usually is just a temporary fix anyway.

 

edit: I had an old GTX 770 laying around and plugged that in. it works fine so i probably can rule out motherboard failure here.

 

So my question is really this: Is the card salvageable or is it just bricked to death ? Should i even bother trying to fix it thrue a electronic fixer firm of some kind?

 

Any help or insight would be greatly appreciated!

 

/Peter

[Sheep-welshman]

Chances are hardware failure.

sometimes a vbios reflash will fix it but not always and there are risks to doing it. 
also have you tried a different pcie slot?

 

[HerveMaas]

1 minute ago, Sheep-welshman said:

Chances are hardware failure.

sometimes a vbios reflash will fix it but not always and there are risks to doing it. 
also have you tried a different pcie slot?

 

Not yet....I'll let you know when I have.
Luckily it's running with a 2200G so it still boots. It just doesn't do a thing when I connect the 8-pin to the card.

[Sheep-welshman]

2 minutes ago, HerveMaas said:

Not yet....I'll let you know when I have.
Luckily it's running with a 2200G so it still boots. It just doesn't do a thing when I connect the 8-pin to the card.

I’m not familiar with card does it have a led above pcie power connector.? If not have you tried swapping the cable from the psu. Better to rule out as many failure points as possible 

[HerveMaas]

It has a red LED above the powerconnector. The PSU is non-modular But ill check if there is another one in the basement. Otherwise (I wanted to upgrade my mainRig's PSU so), I have another PSU incoming tomorrow.

[Sheep-welshman]

11 minutes ago, HerveMaas said:

It has a red LED above the powerconnector. The PSU is non-modular But ill check if there is another one in the basement. Otherwise (I wanted to upgrade my mainRig's PSU so), I have another PSU incoming tomorrow.

If your lucky it’s a dead psu that led should be white to indicate power at least most other gpu led are white when working

[Sainwave]

2 hours ago, Sheep-welshman said:

Chances are hardware failure.

sometimes a vbios reflash will fix it but not always and there are risks to doing it. 
also have you tried a different pcie slot?

 

Yea, i was wondering if i should try to reflash the vbios (not that i know how though).. but also know it comes with its own set of issues.
I have not tried another PCI-e slot, but it probably is not the slot that is the issue, since another GPU works fine from it.

[Sheep-welshman]

6 minutes ago, Sainwave said:

Yea, i was wondering if i should try to reflash the vbios (not that i know how though).. but also know it comes with its own set of issues.
I have not tried another PCI-e slot, but it probably is not the slot that is the issue, since another GPU works fine from it.

Probably not the pcie slot but first rule of trouble shooting is alway pick the easiest things to check first even if they seem redundant. It’s a little scary I’ll admit I’ve only ever done it once

[Sainwave]

3 minutes ago, Sheep-welshman said:

Probably not the pcie slot but first rule of trouble shooting is alway pick the easiest things to check first even if they seem redundant. It’s a little scary I’ll admit I’ve only ever done it once

Ok, yea i'm gonna do a reflash as a last resort then. When all options is gone.

[Sheep-welshman]

12 minutes ago, Sainwave said:

Ok, yea i'm gonna do a reflash as a last resort then. When all options is gone.

Did you try the changing the PSU aswell? 

[Sheep-welshman]

14 minutes ago, Sainwave said:

Ok, yea i'm gonna do a reflash as a last resort then. When all options is gone.

Wait some other user commented on your post and is also having the same issue and I got massively confused lol. So yeah try the other slot. Then try another psu, then a possible vbios flash. If all that has failed then yeah you got a dead/ dying card

[Sainwave]

5 minutes ago, Sheep-welshman said:

Wait some other user commented on your post and is also having the same issue and I got massively confused lol. So yeah try the other slot. Then try another psu, then a possible vbios flash. If all that has failed then yeah you got a dead/ dying card

hehe yea, i did notice the hijacking of the thread there.

havent tried another slot (but as i said its working with another card though), did change PSU. so ill prob try the other slot when i come home and after all is exhausted try to reflash.

[Sheep-welshman]

7 minutes ago, Sainwave said:

hehe yea, i did notice the hijacking of the thread there.

havent tried another slot (but as i said its working with another card though), did change PSU. so ill prob try the other slot when i come home and after all is exhausted try to reflash.

Lmao just re read see you tried the PSU my bad. Yeah if no luck with the other slot. It is highly unlikely it’ll work then flash is all I can think of the oven bake might work but I’ve never tried it to say with any certainty I use my oven exclusively for food haha. 

[Sainwave]

27 minutes ago, Sheep-welshman said:

Lmao just re read see you tried the PSU my bad. Yeah if no luck with the other slot. It is highly unlikely it’ll work then flash is all I can think of the oven bake might work but I’ve never tried it to say with any certainty I use my oven exclusively for food haha. 

Yea same here, which is why im reluctant to do it. Linus did the baking in a video and said that you shouldn't do it in a oven you cook food in.. so thats why i kind of hesitate..