1080ti randomly died last night - any chance to fix or time for upgrade?

[Ksmerola1]

Last night during a gaming session my monitors suddenly developed horrible pixelation artifacts that filled both screens and then the PC turned off. When I turned it back on they were still there. I went into device manager and the 1080ti showed up but had an error alert that said "Windows has disabled this hardware due to a problem with it" or something along those lines. The problem has now evolved to if I even have the card installed in the pcie slot the computer won't boot. I currently have it out of my PC and am connected to the onboard graphics just to be able to use the PC. I cannot even get into the bios anymore if the card is installed. I did not change anything last night when this started happening it came out of no where while playing Escape Simulator with some friends. My system is not overclocked. Does it sound like this is something that can be fixed or is this card most likely dead and its time to start looking at a new PC upgrade?

 

My PC:

Alienware R7

1080Ti

8700K

32gb DDR4 2666
850W bronze PSU

Windows 11

 

 

[Hinjima]

5 minutes ago, Ksmerola1 said:

Last night during a gaming session my monitors suddenly developed horrible pixelation artifacts that filled both screens and then the PC turned off. When I turned it back on they were still there. I went into device manager and the 1080ti showed up but had an error alert that said "Windows has disabled this hardware due to a problem with it" or something along those lines. The problem has now evolved to if I even have the card installed in the pcie slot the computer won't boot. I currently have it out of my PC and am connected to the onboard graphics just to be able to use the PC. I cannot even get into the bios anymore if the card is installed. I did not change anything last night when this started happening it came out of no where while playing Escape Simulator with some friends. My system is not overclocked. Does it sound like this is something that can be fixed or is this card most likely dead and its time to start looking at a new PC upgrade?

 

My PC:

Alienware R7

1080Ti

8700K

32gb DDR4 2666
850W bronze PSU

Windows 11

 

 

 

 

I would say this GPU has done its job and its time for retirement.  This is usually an indication of bad VRAM.

This card is barely hanging on, poor thing.

Unless you know how to solder on new components etc I would say its time to start looking for a new GPU.

 

 

[bal7]

3 minutes ago, Ksmerola1 said:

Last night during a gaming session my monitors suddenly developed horrible pixelation artifacts that filled both screens and then the PC turned off. When I turned it back on they were still there. I went into device manager and the 1080ti showed up but had an error alert that said "Windows has disabled this hardware due to a problem with it" or something along those lines. The problem has now evolved to if I even have the card installed in the pcie slot the computer won't boot. I currently have it out of my PC and am connected to the onboard graphics just to be able to use the PC. I cannot even get into the bios anymore if the card is installed. I did not change anything last night when this started happening it came out of no where while playing Escape Simulator with some friends. My system is not overclocked. Does it sound like this is something that can be fixed or is this card most likely dead and its time to start looking at a new PC upgrade?

 

My PC:

Alienware R7

1080Ti

8700K

32gb DDR4 2666
850W bronze PSU

Windows 11

 

 

i'd say just to replace a gpu for something like 3060 or 4060 but it will be limited a bit by cpu

in any way, full upgrade would be better but gpu replacement/upgrade will be cheapest option to do

[jaslion]

The only thing that you could really do is a thermalpaste replace and inspect the pads of the card if they are still in contact and not brittle af. Poor thermal transfer/contact can cause these issues and can be salvagable. Dells 1080ti is pretty terrible cooler wise so wouldnt put it past it to be solvable somewhat

[Spotty]

Considering that it won't even boot with the card installed I think it's safe to say it's dead. If it was still working but artifiacting there might have been a small chance you could have recovered it by underclocking the memory by -300MHz or something. If it's refusing to boot at all the card is likely fried.

 

o7 for the fallen 1080Ti

[tkitch]

sorry, but the card's dead.  

A 3060 12gb, or RX 6600 XT are similar in performance to the 1080 TI.

Or you can consider upgrading to faster.  (But don't go too crazy, the CPU will be a bottleneck for high-end cards.)

[Agall]

24 minutes ago, Ksmerola1 said:

Last night during a gaming session my monitors suddenly developed horrible pixelation artifacts that filled both screens and then the PC turned off. When I turned it back on they were still there. I went into device manager and the 1080ti showed up but had an error alert that said "Windows has disabled this hardware due to a problem with it" or something along those lines. The problem has now evolved to if I even have the card installed in the pcie slot the computer won't boot. I currently have it out of my PC and am connected to the onboard graphics just to be able to use the PC. I cannot even get into the bios anymore if the card is installed. I did not change anything last night when this started happening it came out of no where while playing Escape Simulator with some friends. My system is not overclocked. Does it sound like this is something that can be fixed or is this card most likely dead and its time to start looking at a new PC upgrade?

 

My PC:

Alienware R7

1080Ti

8700K

32gb DDR4 2666
850W bronze PSU

Windows 11

Might be able to dial back the VRAM clock since I'd suspect an issue like this would be related to an unstable VRAM clock. That's assuming it'll POST again. Without trying another card in the slot, its hard to say definitively that the card is to blame, but its more likely than a PCIe/motherboard/CPU uncore failure that still POSTs.

 

I also think its time for an upgrade. ~7 years for a prebuild is solid, and the 1080ti is still a monster being held back by a 8700k in this case.

[LeapFrogMasterRace]

It is probably dead but here are the general troubleshooting steps if you want to try

• Uninstall drivers with DDU then reinstall the latest
• Try a new display cable and or use a different port
• Reseat the GPU, try a different PCI slot
• Turn down the GPU core clock and VRAM to see if it gets stable again

As a side note you might be able to use this GPU still for computational things like in server to host things, run VMs or do folding/mining. 

[Real_Smoky]

Sell for parts, or try the heat gun method and hope you don't kill it more.