980Ti corrosion and shutting off

[JSZ17]

Have an interesting one here, had someone bring me a 980 Ti that is broken

He told me he has used it for about 2 years, and recently it has started turning off a couple minutes after booting the PC.

I removed the card and found a small amount of corrosion on the pcie connector, no visible corrosion anywhere else on the GPU with the cooler removed

https://imgur.com/OQafjpk

https://imgur.com/zizyXMl

Was run with a 4790k, 32gb of ram, and an 850 watt evga psu before this. Haven't done much testing but so far it boots up, runs for a couple minutes and shuts off. Any tips?

 

[RONOTHAN##]

51 minutes ago, JSZ17 said:

it boots up, runs for a couple minutes and shuts off

Sounds like some sort of thermal issue. Replace the thermal paste and the thermal pads first to see if that fixes anything. I'd recommend just using thermal putty instead of pads since they're much harder to screw up with the wrong thickness. 

 

EDIT: Just to clarify, by "runs for a couple minutes" does that mean launches Heaven and cycles the benchmark a few times or sits at the desktop then turns off? Both ways can be thermal issues, but the second has the possibility of being silicon damage. 

Edited July 11, 2022 by RONOTHAN##