Dead R9 280x

[Kivi]

Hi,

i have a r9 280x ASUS DCU II and it wasnt overclocked or anything i was just playing Starcraft and it suddenly "died" meaning i just had a huge artifact of white and pink lines, and so i pressed reset just to have an other artifact,

with a few vertical lines and squares moving horizontally in all kind of colors and the little led on the gpu wich used to be green was red, then i restarted again this time exactly the same just it was black and white not colorful. I decided to remove the card to see if there is any physical damage, it looked normal, but upon removal there where two darker spots on the card on the back side around the VRM's , and there was more dust on those spots suggesting that it was sticky or something <see pictures>  

so this is where i am if someone has any idea what happened or if its dead for good please let me know.

 

Thanks!

[TheRandomness]

Clean out the heatsink and surfaces with compressed air and try again. Chances are though, a VRAM chip just shit itself hard.

[Samsterstorm]

5 minutes ago, Kivi said:

Hi,

i have a r9 280x ASUS DCU II and it wasnt overclocked or anything i was just playing Starcraft and it suddenly "died" meaning i just had a huge artifact of white and pink lines, and so i pressed reset just to have an other artifact,

with a few vertical lines and squares moving horizontally in all kind of colors and the little led on the gpu wich used to be green was red, then i restarted again this time exactly the same just it was black and white not colorful. I decided to remove the card to see if there is any physical damage, it looked normal, but upon removal there where two darker spots on the card on the back side around the VRM's , and there was more dust on those spots suggesting that it was sticky or something <see pictures>  

so this is where i am if someone has any idea what happened or if its dead for good please let me know.

 

Thanks!

 

 

 

Do you have an AIO or liquid cooler or a custom loop?? Or have u spilled drinks etc on ur PC! That looks to be liquid damage to me.... My 270x was killed by a leaking Rajintek Triton! 

[Kivi]

Just now, Samsterstorm said:

Do you have an AIO or liquid cooler or a custom loop?? Or have u spilled drinks etc on ur PC! That looks to be liquid damage to me....

No, no liquid in my system, i can send u some pics, maybe it can help 

[Samsterstorm]

Just now, Kivi said:

No, no liquid in my system, i can send u some pics, maybe it can help 

Does appear to be some liquid on that PCB thou! May not be the issue could be screen or cable related! 

[Kivi]

so i should just reinstall the gpu and try a different cable and or monitor?

 

i dont like my chances....

[FakeNSA]

Just try to run the monitor on the onboard video first. If that doesn't work, try to fix the card.

[Kivi]

Just now, Aelar_Nailo said:

Just try to run the monitor on the onboard video first. If that doesn't work, try to fix the card.

i alredy tried plugging the hdmi cable in to the motherboard but then nothing... not even artifacts, i think its just not using the onboard video (i have i7 4790 non k   and asrock fatality h97)

[Kivi]

2 minutes ago, Kivi said:

i alredy tried plugging the hdmi cable in to the motherboard but then nothing... not even artifacts, i think its just not using the onboard video (i have i7 4790 non k   and asrock fatality h97)

now i tried it again and it works but i noticed a red light on the motherboard just below the pci slot i dont know if its standard but it does work with the onboard video

[maybethisnamewillwork]

1 minute ago, Kivi said:

now i tried it again and it works but i noticed a red light on the motherboard just below the pci slot i dont know if its standard but it does work with the onboard video

It just indicates that there's no video card plugged in.