GPU overheating?

NightHawk56 · January 7, 2016

Hello all.

I am having a problem with my GPU. I having been experiencing shut downs on my SLI set up. the computers screen would go blank and the GPU fans would go crazy (fast). The problem stopped and I carried on.

later I checked The Nvidia control panel and noticed that my system wasn't running SLI. and I couldn't turn it on. I troubleshooted the two cards. one worked fine, ran the valley benchmark on high without a problem.

The other card, while running alone, would start (single start up beep) run for less than a minute or so then its fans would go nuts and the screen would go blank as before. when I pressed the restart button I would get another single beep almost immediately followed by a dash dot dot, VGA not detected.

I felt the issue may be over heating, maybe you think the same. The next step i decided on was to change the thermal paste which I did. This had no effect. I have disassembled the GPU so that i could show you the amount of the paste I used. please see attached.

I am pretty sure it is the GPU because the system is identical excepted for the change in GPU.

The system is as followed:

Windows 10 64-bit

intel i7-3930k

MSI Geforce GTX 670 power edition

16GB Corsair vengeance

Asus P9X79 PRO

ocz fatal1ty 750w

Two OCZ AGILITY3

Bios ver 4502 x64

Sorry for the long post. Thank you for getting this far.

FloRolf · January 7, 2016

it's not overheating if it fails directly after booting.

Try a different video output.

I'd assume the card has a failure and might be dead.

comefightme · January 7, 2016

That doesn't sound anything like overheating, a normal gpu will throttle and save itself, this just sounds like a dead card. Changing thermal compound on an MSI card mightttttttttt have voided the warranty, so get a new card m8