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RX 580 stopped working

Akorane
By Akorane
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Hello everyone,

I am in possession of an RX 580 Sapphire Nitro+ SE 8GB. The card was bought new by it's first owner in 2018, and I bought it second hand in 2019 in near perfect condition.
The card has since been used in my personal PC for general use/gaming.

Around 10 days ago, the GPU clock/Memory clock/GPU temp and some other data were no longer showing in GPU-Z. (They were still showing in HW info).

Around 7 days ago, I tried de-shrouding the card and putting 2 120mm Fans for cooling. (This was done non-invasive, as I only removed the top cover, and attached the Fans to the backplate with Zip-ties). This was done mainly as an experiment, as my card was cool/quiet enough for my use before that.

My card with the fan mod worked for around 2 days, until once when I started my PC and nothing happened, there was no longer any video output. I tried remounting the normal shroud, as well as re-pasting the GPU, with no effect.

My PC specs:
CPU: i7 3770k
MB: Z77 Medion MS-7785
RAM: 4x4GB 1333Mhz DDR3
GPU: RX 580 Sapphire Nitro+ SE 8GB (currently replaced by a GTX 670)
Storage: MX500 500gb
PSU: Bitfenix Formula Gold 550w
OS: Windows 10 build 19044

So the issue is that currently the RX 580 doesn't output at all (none of the 5 display output work). This is present on both GPU BIOS.

What I have gathered/tried so far with the RX 580:
1. The GPU fans run (albeit seemingly always at high speed) and the GPU RGB lights work too.
2. I tested the same PCIE slot with another GPU (GTX 670), and it works fine. So this should rule out the PSU/MB as the potential culprit.
3. The RX 580 is not recognized at all. In the BIOS, the card is not shown, and the GPU voltage is NA. I tried DDU/re-install AMD drivers to no avail. No software is currently able to detect the GPU (speccy/GPU-z/HW info/device manager)
4. My CPU/MB display output works properly.
5. As I seem to be unable to have the GPU recognized, I couldn't even try to BIOS flash it.
6. There was no power surge/short during the time around the time the issue happened.


I have added front and back photos of the GPU's pcb (those were taken after having re-pasted the card once, so the card was no longer working at this point), maybe there is something wrong/broken with it?

At this point, what are my option to continue troubleshooting and see if the card can still work?

Thank you all in advance!


 

RX 580 pcb back.jpg

RX 580 pcb front.jpg

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Welcome to the forums!
Sure you didn't knock a resistor off the back or something while repasting or doing the fan mod? I believe the GPU-Z issue is a software issue but that could have also been a hardware issue with the card. It may have been related to the repasting or could have just been an unfortunate coincidence. 

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