Possibly dead graphics card

[haifisch]

Hi,

 

I got a Palit GTX 660 here with some problems. I know it's faulty, because when I put into my system yesterday, it caused BSOD when installing drivers and at windows startup(Wich was because of the aero theme I guess).

 

So I put together another system from parts I have lying around to test the card and not have to bother with my setup. I made a fresh windows install, then I could successfully install the latest nvidia drivers, but if I use windows aero, google chrome, start any game(even minesweeper!!!), or any stress testing program, the screen goes black in a few seconds and then restarts. The only "benchmark" I could run so far is the render test in gpu-z.

 

Of course, I have the pcie power connector plugged in, and I also checked at gpu-z for temps, wich are good. Power supply is a Delta 750W.

I also made logs from these events with gpu-z, I attached some of them to this post.

 

Now I know I could just use another card, but I really want to fix it. My question is: Where to further test the card? Underclocking? gpu bios flash? looking for visible damage? If any of them, what programs to use?

 

Thanks for any help in advance! Also let me know if any important information is missing

 

UPDATE:

I can run Folding@Home with not problems! Which is very interesting, as it's a very GPU intensive task... I dont understand, really. Any ideas? What's the difference between the load of Folding@Home and the load of Furmark?

Also, I tried the card in my main system(with a test hdd for another os install, so I don't mess up with mine) There it doesn't restart, but screen goes black for few seconds and I get a notification on the taskbar "display driver stopped responding and has recovered". I made a video about what happens if I run the windows experiece rating, its pretty interesting, it crashes a lot of times during the test, and at the end the gtx 660 gets a score of 2,0... Video coming soon

 

UPDATE #2

Video: 

GPU-Z Sensor Log Aero.txt

GPU-Z Sensor Log Furmark.txt

GPU-Z Sensor Log Highlights.txt

GPU-Z Sensor Log OCCT.txt

GPU-Z Sensor Log GPU-Z Render test.txt

GPU-Z Sensor Log Aero.txt

GPU-Z Sensor Log Furmark.txt

GPU-Z Sensor Log Highlights.txt

GPU-Z Sensor Log OCCT.txt

GPU-Z Sensor Log GPU-Z Render test.txt

[haifisch]

 

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UPDATE

[R_Golden]

Nobody is answering because nobody knows

Could be anything. I would just get a new card, granted if you didn't buy the 660 recently. Otherwise I would want a refund.

[haifisch]

Yeah, I guess. I cannot have a refund as I got the card as faulty, it's producing the same symptoms as the guy stated, I just wanted to get some experience and maybe give the card a second life I've baked quite some cards in the oven with blackscreen or artifacts, with pretty good success rate. Also notebook gpus. And a smartphone. Now for this card, I dont want to go into the oven right now, as I don't know the exact problem yet. Do You guys think maybe a reball(with professional equipment) should help it or another part of the card is the problem, not the solders under the chip?

 

UPDATE: Here is the video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_1lUhAoH3E