2070 Never working RTX 2070

[Lemony Crisket]

I've come into possession of a Gigabyte 2070 from one of my friends, and it has a quite the history. The original owner had bought it to use in someone else's build over 2 years ago, but kept having artifacting and BSODs, so he sent it into Gigabyte for repair. Twice. Neither time had fixed his issue, and the working theory is that Gigabyte just flashed the BIOS both times. After the second time he gave up on the card and just put into storage. He then gave it to my friend as they're family members and he was needing to downsize since he was moving. My friend then sent it in again to Gigabyte, as it was still in warranty, and when he got it back it started working for about a week and then started bluescreening and artifacting at random.

Then he gave it to me as we thought that it was a possible power supply issue since he had also gotten a 650W supply that wasn't opened from the original 2070 owner. After doing some testing of my own with the 650W and an older board I had with a gtx 460 and a i5 7400, I concluded that it wasn't the power supply that was the problem. Even so, I bought a new 850W power supply just to make sure that it wasn't the cause of the issue. I did get the card to work before installing drivers, as I was getting video output, but my friend had told me that he had gotten artifacting even without drivers installed. The drivers fully downloaded but during installation the screen went red, and after restarting the computer it only displays a black screen after the windows splash screen.

 

I really don't know what else to do with this 2070 because as of right now it's essentially just a paperweight. I want to get it fixed so I might be able to give it to a friend who might want to build a computer, as the 2070 is a small form factor card and I have a full 2060 super already, so I imagine it would operate similarly and I don't really need the upgrade. Along with the 2070 my friend received a lot of other parts too, he got a full tub of them with some really good parts, such as a 780 TI and 1080 as reference with a couple intel motherboards and chips. We've both been collectively using these parts to make sort of frankenstein builds for people, and we've been just giving the parts to them free of charge because we don't want them to be wasted. The card is now out of warranty and I am completely stumped on what to do, and I don't even know if there is anything to do if it's a physical issue with the silicon or something else, I just don't really want to see a 2070 get wasted, especially in the GPU climate we have today.

[HQuan]

Oh boy massive GPU! Still not big as 3090

 

You have no other choice. If the GPU manufacturer itself can't fix the GPU 3 times, then it completley died.

If you can, try to get refund from the manufacturer, but keep the GPU yours as a novelty item. I done that before, with an 3090.

 

13 minutes ago, Lemony Crisket said:

I don't even know if there is anything to do if it's a physical issue with the silicon or something else

 

Yes, this may cause by the physical issue. 

[Mark Kaine]

this obviously sucks, but there probably isn't much you can do unless its *still* under warranty... imo the previous owners made the mistake, its totally not acceptable to have a gpu "repaired" three times and not getting a properly working item. if you think about it, it makes sense gigabyte cant "fix" it, they arent the "manufacturer" thats Nvidia,  i doubt gigabyte have the expertise to fix an actual gpu, if thats even possible at all. so yeah, warranty works like this: you get the chance to repair the item and if you cant do it with 2 attempts this still ends up with me having a functioning item i paid for, or a full refund (including shipping costs etc)

 

but this is also why rma isnt really a thing here,  people usually just deal with the seller in a warranty case.

[Tech87]

57 minutes ago, Lemony Crisket said:

I've come into possession of a Gigabyte 2070 from one of my friends, and it has a quite the history. The original owner had bought it to use in someone else's build over 2 years ago, but kept having artifacting and BSODs, so he sent it into Gigabyte for repair. Twice. Neither time had fixed his issue, and the working theory is that Gigabyte just flashed the BIOS both times. After the second time he gave up on the card and just put into storage. He then gave it to my friend as they're family members and he was needing to downsize since he was moving. My friend then sent it in again to Gigabyte, as it was still in warranty, and when he got it back it started working for about a week and then started bluescreening and artifacting at random.

Then he gave it to me as we thought that it was a possible power supply issue since he had also gotten a 650W supply that wasn't opened from the original 2070 owner. After doing some testing of my own with the 650W and an older board I had with a gtx 460 and a i5 7400, I concluded that it wasn't the power supply that was the problem. Even so, I bought a new 850W power supply just to make sure that it wasn't the cause of the issue. I did get the card to work before installing drivers, as I was getting video output, but my friend had told me that he had gotten artifacting even without drivers installed. The drivers fully downloaded but during installation the screen went red, and after restarting the computer it only displays a black screen after the windows splash screen.

 

I really don't know what else to do with this 2070 because as of right now it's essentially just a paperweight. I want to get it fixed so I might be able to give it to a friend who might want to build a computer, as the 2070 is a small form factor card and I have a full 2060 super already, so I imagine it would operate similarly and I don't really need the upgrade. Along with the 2070 my friend received a lot of other parts too, he got a full tub of them with some really good parts, such as a 780 TI and 1080 as reference with a couple intel motherboards and chips. We've both been collectively using these parts to make sort of frankenstein builds for people, and we've been just giving the parts to them free of charge because we don't want them to be wasted. The card is now out of warranty and I am completely stumped on what to do, and I don't even know if there is anything to do if it's a physical issue with the silicon or something else, I just don't really want to see a 2070 get wasted, especially in the GPU climate we have today.

There is a repair shop called Northridge Fix. I believe they're located in California. 

 

The owner has a YouTube channel, and they're really good with electronics.

Perhaps you could reach out to them and see if anything can be done