AMD GPU Crashing when installing driver

[Thomas_Sarnyai]

Hello
I'm having an issue with my gpu after i have deep cleaned my card, blown off with aircompressor and applied fresh thermal paste
after i have assembled it it booted up normally, but after it got into windows it started artifacting and then the gpu basically shut down and screens turned off

I was able to get into safe mode, use DDU to remove the driver, i have display output on Microsoft basic display adapter driver, but its basically useless, the gpu is at idle state, fans at 55% all the time and clocks all the way down
Any version of driver crashes it, i had to disable all kinds of windows updates to avoid a driver getting installed

Card is a AMD Radeon R9 270x 2gb, i bought it used 4 years ago
Motherboard : GIGABITE GA-A320m-S2H
PSU: Chieftech 650 watt
CPU AMD Ryzen 1200
16GB of 2400mhz ram in dual channel
i built the PC about 4 years ago myself
I'm running windows 10, installed a year ago, still runs fine now, i just cant play games since everything is rendered on the CPU

During the week i had several driver crashes during a game and have artifacts and black screens, but the system didnt crash, i was able to restart the game and play
I'm certain its quite dead at this point, but i just want to confirm it really is, and what could have happened with it?

Note: i had no bluescreens at all during these happenings
 

[MikeHawkSmol]

6 minutes ago, Thomas_Sarnyai said:

Hello
I'm having an issue with my gpu after i have deep cleaned my card, blown off with aircompressor and applied fresh thermal paste
after i have assembled it it booted up normally, but after it got into windows it started artifacting and then the gpu basically shut down and screens turned off

I was able to get into safe mode, use DDU to remove the driver, i have display output on Microsoft basic display adapter driver, but its basically useless, the gpu is at idle state, fans at 55% all the time and clocks all the way down
Any version of driver crashes it, i had to disable all kinds of windows updates to avoid a driver getting installed

Card is a AMD Radeon R9 270x 2gb, i bought it used 4 years ago
Motherboard : GIGABITE GA-A320m-S2H
PSU: Chieftech 650 watt
CPU AMD Ryzen 1200
16GB of 2400mhz ram in dual channel
i built the PC about 4 years ago myself
I'm running windows 10, installed a year ago, still runs fine now, i just cant play games since everything is rendered on the CPU

During the week i had several driver crashes during a game and have artifacts and black screens, but the system didnt crash, i was able to restart the game and play
I'm certain its quite dead at this point, but i just want to confirm it really is, and what could have happened with it?

Note: i had no bluescreens at all during these happenings
 

Were all thermal pads reapplied correctly? Sounds to me like this is a memory issue, but could also be a problem with GPU temps. Was thermal paste spread out across the die? 

 

This is most definitely a reassembly issue, but most likely fixable as well. No worries, ive done it as well, nearly killed my 15 year old Quadro card after a thermal paste re-application.

[Thomas_Sarnyai]

1 minute ago, MikeHawkSmol said:

Were all thermal pads reapplied correctly? Sounds to me like this is a memory issue, but could also be a problem with GPU temps. Was thermal paste spread out across the die? 

 

This is most definitely a reassembly issue, but most likely fixable as well. No worries, ive done it as well, nearly killed my 15 year old Quadro card after a thermal paste re-application.

A day later i have cleaned the die surface very thoroughly again with alcohol and cotton, and spread the thermal paste evenly again, thermal pads sit evenly all across, cooler makes good contact, gpu sits at 31c° right now, when the driver installs the fans slow down to normal idle rpms, but the screen goes black, seconds later the gpu shuts down, fans stop, it makes a clicking noise like its trying to turn back on, and then system reboots and bootloops until it throws it to the troubleshooting page.

[MikeHawkSmol]

1 minute ago, Thomas_Sarnyai said:

A day later i have cleaned the die surface very thoroughly again with alcohol and cotton, and spread the thermal paste evenly again, thermal pads sit evenly all across, cooler makes good contact, gpu sits at 31c° right now, when the driver installs the fans slow down to normal idle rpms, but the screen goes black, seconds later the gpu shuts down, fans stop, it makes a clicking noise like its trying to turn back on, and then system reboots and bootloops until it throws it to the troubleshooting page.

Okay, intriguing. Is the system running as expected between driver update attempts?

[Thomas_Sarnyai]

1 hour ago, MikeHawkSmol said:

Okay, intriguing. Is the system running as expected between driver update attempts?

When there's no driver installed, just the microsoft basic one, its running just fine, but the gpu isnt utilized at all so thats not really suprising
I'm using it like this to watch movies and browsing, its kind of annoying cuz the fans are quite audible