GTX Asus Dual 1060 3gb Artifacts

[ABehery]

Hello,

I have recently bought an "open box" GTX Asus Dual 1060 3gb off of ebay, after receiving it, I quickly inspected its conditions and it seemed pretty much "new", it almost had no dust, scratches or any damage. I connected the gpu to the computer and installed the required drivers from the official page. Got artifacts followed by a crash after 10minutes, thought Its because I did not restart after installing the drivers. All good, restarted, played a game, thought I should check the scores on Unigine Heaven, I made about 4,5 runs. And on about the 5th run, I got artifacts followed by a freeze, kinda scared. I restarted the PC and absolutely nothing, black screen. couple of times and still the same. I kept trying till I got a signal with artifacts, they do not appear immediately but sometime after the loading screen. I thought it might be the drivers, i reinstalled the drivers and restarted the PC, same thing, black screen no signal. couple of tries of shutting down and powering on. it finally came back to life, no artifacts. I tried running a game and it froze after 2minutes. the GPU either does not give a signal, or runs with artifacts. Fans are running and it has power on indicator.

I have attached a video showing the kind of artifacts I'm getting, its on a black image to show the artifacts clearly.

What do you guys think I should do, is this fixable? Extremely sad and disappointed since it feels like I was scammed for my hard earned money.

Contacting the seller is kind of tough because I'm not in the states currently anymore.

 

Edit: Sometimes screen does not turn on but this comes up (image below).

 

System Specs:

Ryzen 7 1700

G.skill 16GB 3200

SSR-550RM Seasonic

Samsung EVO 960 250gb

Asus TUF B350M

[Astarore]

You may be out of luck on this one. One thing you can try to do though is flashing the GPU bios and hope it works.

[ABehery]

On 10/2/2018 at 1:51 AM, Astarore said:

You may be out of luck on this one. One thing you can try to do though is flashing the GPU bios and hope it works.

Well, I cant get it to turn the screen on anymore to try and flash the BIOS, is there anyway I could fix it? A hardware fix?

[Astarore]

Well,I recently fixed a EVGA 770 that would keep crashing and wouldnt boot so what I did was use a PNY 960 as my main graphics but left the 770 still in my PCIE slot and powered.That let me select the card from device manager and fix it.

[ABehery]

On 10/4/2018 at 12:02 AM, Astarore said:

Well,I recently fixed a EVGA 770 that would keep crashing and wouldnt boot so what I did was use a PNY 960 as my main graphics but left the 770 still in my PCIE slot and powered.That let me select the card from device manager and fix it.

I flashed the BIOS and its still the same.

I have attached HWiNFO records, can gpu.CSV you see anything weird? why is the clock core going in the 1800s?

[Pickles von Brine]

Looks like the card is bad bud. DOA. Contact the ebay seller and see if you can get a refund. 

[Astarore]

Honestly,your best chance is to contact the seller/ebay and see if they can get you a refund. It's hard to really say what the issue is without having a test system to plug it into and taking it apart.

[ABehery]

14 hours ago, Lord Xeb said:

Looks like the card is bad bud. DOA. Contact the ebay seller and see if you can get a refund. 

 

13 hours ago, Astarore said:

Honestly,your best chance is to contact the seller/ebay and see if they can get you a refund. It's hard to really say what the issue is without having a test system to plug it into and taking it apart.

Thank you guys, will see what I can do.