Graphics card (probably) bricked

[Magnorph]

I tried overclocking my graphics card but I couldn't change the voltage. I just thought "meh, I'll just overclock it anyways" and so I overclocked the mhz to 2100 on my MSI Gaming X 1070 and just started playing games (Well I did some benchmarking first).

 

Well it wasn't super stable but I just sort of went with it (crashes in valley after 30 minutes) and I played witcher 3 on ultra no problem for hours on end.

 

Eventually I played Rome Total War 2 for the first time and put all the graphics settings on as high as I could put em and my computer crashed.

 

It then would not boot back up. Absolutely refused to. Sometimes it would display the loading screen and then crash, sometimes it wouldn't display anything.

 

Eventually I put my old EVGA 970 back in and it booked just fine. I uninstalled afterburner because I didn't want it to try to OC my card again.

 

I then placed my MSI 1070 back in after that and it booted just fine which I was relieved about. I then reinstalled afterburner (just for the monitoring and fan speed changing) and then the computer crashed again and won't reboot.

 

I'm pretty sure I've bricked my graphics card but I'm not sure how or why or what to do regarding this. I literally just got this card on Tuesday.

[Delicieuxz]

If you didn't adjust voltage, and only changed the frequency, I'm pretty sure that won't brick a GPU. But it will cause your PC to lock up if the frequency is too high, and you can stop it from freezing by lowering the frequency again. But someone else will respond with more certainty.

[SkilledRebuilds]

So when you uninstall MSI

Reboot with your 1070, your fine and windows will launch, and you can use it?

When you reinstall MSI, it wont boot/launch windows?

MSI could be saving your settings to a file or the registry - Did you tick "Enable Overclocking at Startup" down the bottom of MSI, sounds like its trying to force it again, it dont like it, and it fails.

Find the registry or file for that setting and delete it maybe... I had to do this a year ago for another card having issues with MSI.

Then I Reinstall MSI after removing all entries to it in the system, and it came good.

[Magnorph]

1 minute ago, Delicieuxz said:

If you didn't adjust voltage, and only changed the frequency, I'm pretty sure that won't brick a GPU, but it will cause your PC to lock up if the frequency is too high. But someone else will respond with more certainty.

Thanks, I'm looking more into it and it appears it may be driver 368.39 thats done it but nobody can find a viable solution as far as I can tell.

[Magnorph]

1 minute ago, SkilledRebuilds said:

So when you uninstall MSI

Reboot with your 1070, your fine and windows will launch, and you can use it?

When you reinstall MSI, it wont boot/launch windows?

I just tried the once but as soon as MSI afterburner started up and I went into the settings to change the UI my system crashed immediately and I had to switch out graphics cards for it to boot again.

[SkilledRebuilds]

I'd steer clear of MSI until IT or Your GPU driver gets updated again.

MSI is playing silly buggers due to the OC having a fault or the driver itself.

Enjoy the performance it brings...without MSI for now...... this could be your 'hypothetical' first warning from overclocking.

Next time, don't be a "richard", take longer times testing it, make SUUUURRREEEEEE it's stable.

[Magnorph]

1 minute ago, SkilledRebuilds said:

I'd steer clear of MSI until IT or Your GPU driver gets updated again.

Enjoy the performance it brings... this could be your 'hypothetical' first warning from overclocking.

Next time, don't be a "richard", take longer times testing it, make SUUUURRREEEEEE it's stable.

I'm on it fam, I'll uninstall and see if I can get anything to even run.

 

Thanks.

[Magnorph]

27 minutes ago, SkilledRebuilds said:

I'd steer clear of MSI until IT or Your GPU driver gets updated again.

MSI is playing silly buggers due to the OC having a fault or the driver itself.

Enjoy the performance it brings...without MSI for now...... this could be your 'hypothetical' first warning from overclocking.

Next time, don't be a "richard", take longer times testing it, make SUUUURRREEEEEE it's stable.

Nope, its been completely bricked. Won't even display the boot code. It just completely black screens.

 

I think I may have to RMA this card because I really don't think it was me attempting to OC it that busted the card.

[Megazero]

I dont think simply OC the card will do that. I also have a Gaming X 1070 that I OC with Afterburner, and whenever I bump the Core too high it will simply crash the driver and recover by itself right away, so I just need to stop the benchmark and go scale down the core clock. Like other people have said it could be that you set it to auto OC to that level on the Afterburner and when you uninstall it the registry still on the computer. Try to "clean" uninstall all the registry related to the After burner, start it up again and reset everything to default?

[Magnorph]

56 minutes ago, Megazero said:

I dont think simply OC the card will do that. I also have a Gaming X 1070 that I OC with Afterburner, and whenever I bump the Core too high it will simply crash the driver and recover by itself right away, so I just need to stop the benchmark and go scale down the core clock. Like other people have said it could be that you set it to auto OC to that level on the Afterburner and when you uninstall it the registry still on the computer. Try to "clean" uninstall all the registry related to the After burner, start it up again and reset everything to default?

How would I go about deleting that? I wouldn't even know how to begin.

 

Thanks for the help by the way, I'm just unsure where to be looking.

[JamGorby]

The term 'bricked' is used to describe a problem where the firmware of a card is either damaged, corrupt, or has been overwritten with poop somehow. If your card was bricked, you wouldn't be able to boot at all. An unstable overclock alone doesn't effect the firmware. However, it's probably not a good idea to continue to game for hours on a card you know isn't stable. 

[JamGorby]

9 minutes ago, Magnorph said:

How would I go about deleting that? I wouldn't even know how to begin.

 

Thanks for the help by the way, I'm just unsure where to be looking.

Also, this may help. 

http://pcuninstalltool.com/articles/How-to-Uninstall/Remove-MSI+Afterburner-Completely-Off-Your-PC_24_102855.html

Do it manually. No need to download their 'tool'. It's probably junk.