Starting to think my card is bad but I don't think so?

[SirDeadSquirrel]

Build I've been running for years, 5600x, 32gb, rx6650xt on a msi b550. Took it apart for a case swap, can't get it to post. Mobo vga light is on and no signal. Try the second slot, computer does boot but see pics, it slowly morphs. I went and got my old 1060, boots in top slot just fine. Is it my card or something else? I don't see why a worse slot would give me an output if the good one doesn't boot at all and I don't see any damage to the board

[Eigenvektor]

First thing to try would be using a different monitor cable. And maybe a different monitor if you have one.

[SirDeadSquirrel]

Don't have another monitor at the moment, plugging that cable into my series x works fine though. Now that I think about it though, my monitor back home did do 1440, this one doesn't. That wouldn't have anything to do with it would it?

[y0ur5h4d0w]

well, this looks like a "my GPU is dieing a really bad death and i can't do much if not simply watch it melt down into a puddle of my tears" kind of situation.

 

BEFORE trying eveything you see below my disclamer as @Eigenvektor said, try different cables, different monitors, connect it to the TV with the same cable you're using right now then if you're using DisplayPort try to go HDMI and repeat the tests, it might even be a simple port damage. Try even putting your GPU into a friend system for some tests and see if the situation repeats.

 

If none of these tests works then proceed to read below and decide at your own will, it's not a solution but a science experiment. if something goes really bad i don't take any blame. you should consider talking to your GPU manufacturer support and check the warrenty before proceding.

 

in my case the GPU worked almost fine, but under heavy loads and at high temperatures it glitched out bad and crashed my system. in the end the issue probably was related to a cracked soldering due to a couple case swapping/motherboard chaning over the years

 

DISCLAMER:

the procedure i'm describing below is MOST LIKELY not ideal and it could break everything even more, however, ONLY AND IF ONLY YOU CONSIDER YOUR GPU DEAD it's worth a try but please DON'T GET YOUR HOPES UP. consider this an experiment for science and don't take this as a solution because it is not, it's my personal experience and it worked, but i might not work for everyone.

 

i've been there myself with my very first Gaming GPU and after changing it wih a better one i fixed my issue. there's only one thing you can try and it MAYBE wil fix your issues. IF and only IF the issue is related to a cracked solder you can try to take it all apart, take out all the plastic you can without damaging any part and put it in an electric oven, fingers crossed, butt clenched, max temps for some time, the exact "time" is not defined anywhere because depends on your oven, when you see the PCB color darken shut down the oven and let it cool down slowly still inside the hot oven. THERE'S A REMOTE POSSIBILITY that it can be fixed, don't know how long it could last but it might get fixed. my old R7 370 OC 4G got fixed this way, it was crashing when any game was launched and msi support told me to chuck it into the garbage so i gave the "oven reballing shenanigans" a shot.

 

 

My R7 370 works since 2019 when i put it in the oven and i can play on it without any issue at all since then. But again. I might even got lucky with this procedure, the GPU was dead anyway and i had a working replacement, i just tried for the memes. a lucky shot if you want to call it differently.

[SirDeadSquirrel]

Tried a different hdmi cable, no dice. Before I jump to tearing apart a card I think I paid like 300 for, do you think a pc repair shop would test it for me? Could just be nothing, but the fact that it will boot in a slot (I assume is x8, spec sheet says they're both 16 but the bottom one only has half the pins on the back) but not the other gives me just enough hope to not be jumping straight to a reball. Last thing I reballed was a 360 and that was like 6 hours of my time, only for it to die again around a month later

[y0ur5h4d0w]

11 minutes ago, SirDeadSquirrel said:

Tried a different hdmi cable, no dice. Before I jump to tearing apart a card I think I paid like 300 for, do you think a pc repair shop would test it for me? Could just be nothing, but the fact that it will boot in a slot (I assume is x8, spec sheet says they're both 16 but the bottom one only has half the pins on the back) but not the other gives me just enough hope to not be jumping straight to a reball. Last thing I reballed was a 360 and that was like 6 hours of my time, only for it to die again around a month later

if you have a small computer repair shop near you i would try to ask them if they have a spare computer that you can try to test your GPU in it, they will probably even help you withtout charging anything, the test is rather simple and not time consuming

[SirDeadSquirrel]

8 minutes ago, y0ur5h4d0w said:

if you have a small computer repair shop near you i would try to ask them if they have a spare computer that you can try to test your GPU in it, they will probably even help you withtout charging anything, the test is rather simple and not time consuming

Probably gonna ask somebody tomorrow then, did some prowling and apparently xfx offers 3 years, I bought in Dec of 2023. If both don't work, is there anywhere on this forum that would appreciate a bunch of pics of me trying to reball it? Hopefully WITH a stencil this time

[y0ur5h4d0w]

9 minutes ago, SirDeadSquirrel said:

Probably gonna ask somebody tomorrow then, did some prowling and apparently xfx offers 3 years, I bought in Dec of 2023. If both don't work, is there anywhere on this forum that would appreciate a bunch of pics of me trying to reball it? Hopefully WITH a stencil this time

depending on the issue though it might even be useless to reball only the GPU itself, it might be a simple cracked soldering somewhere else and could even be completely invisible, if this is the case the oven might seve your GPU as weird as it sounds

 

however if you go for the reballing i'm 100% interested in videos and pics to be honest, it's an interesting procedure i wanted to learn