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  • narkfestmojonarkfestmojo Posts: 93

    yeah, clean it out and reseat, might just come back to life.

  • WendyLuvsCatzWendyLuvsCatz Posts: 40,189
    narkfestmojo_2964796531 said:

    yeah, clean it out and reseat, might just come back to life.

     

    I put my old card in and now downloading a driver

  • WendyLuvsCatzWendyLuvsCatz Posts: 40,189

    The GTX 760 is working fine

    running Uningine Heaven Benchmark no black screens

    so

    guess I have to render tiny scenes that fit on 2GB instead of 6 sad

    is better than no GPU

  • narkfestmojonarkfestmojo Posts: 93

    If you are feeling adventurous and you consider the card to be toast anyway. You might consider removing the shroud, heatsink & fan assembly and putting on some fresh thermal grease. It is a bit risky, but if the card is dead anyway then you have nothing to loose.

    Another, even crazier option involves baking (I swear I'm not kidding) You remove the shroud, heatsink & fan assembly. Then put the PCB in a heated oven for a while, it can (sometimes) sort out cracked or broken solder connections. (This happens because of the VC expanding and skrinking due to temperature) Linus Tech Tips and either JayzTwoCents or Gamers Nexus have done it. Some claim it has about a 50% success rate bringing dead videocards back to life. You wanna be sure your VC is actually dead first though, cause this will probably kill it if it isn't already.

    ...and no, I've never tried this.

  • WendyLuvsCatzWendyLuvsCatz Posts: 40,189
    edited August 2019

    I saw the baking video, someone suggested a heat gun more accurate 

    I won’t discard it, I may find out the issue yet now I am a bit better at swapping them out

    will miss Ansel and Shadowplay with this one

    will need a screen capture program to replace it

    update, Ansel works and I do have ingame recording it's just not called Shadowplay

    Post edited by WendyLuvsCatz on
  • p0rtp0rt Posts: 217
    SadKitty_Carrara said:
    p0rt said:

    its down to windows being rubbish and installing the OEM display driver, while then you need to install the nVidia driver again from their site, and the clean install within the installer is rubbish, so you need to download and use DDU from https://www.guru3d.com/files-details/display-driver-uninstaller-download.html to fully uninstall driver's and start over

    I did completely remove the driver so that windows even thought my card was new hardware 

    and all the older installs about 20GB of them, I then treated it as new hardware and when given options to get a driver had my Nvidia one ready and it worked a few days.

    yesterday reinstalled the driver with GeForce Experience too 

    Windows updates certainly coincide with this crap were big ones yesterday and now it’s completely cactus

    DDU will remove the existance of evefy driver version includimg all files and registry keys that have ever been installed on your system, if DDU doesn'tt fix your problem then nothing will
  • WendyLuvsCatzWendyLuvsCatz Posts: 40,189
    p0rt said:
    SadKitty_Carrara said:
    p0rt said:

    its down to windows being rubbish and installing the OEM display driver, while then you need to install the nVidia driver again from their site, and the clean install within the installer is rubbish, so you need to download and use DDU from https://www.guru3d.com/files-details/display-driver-uninstaller-download.html to fully uninstall driver's and start over

    I did completely remove the driver so that windows even thought my card was new hardware 

    and all the older installs about 20GB of them, I then treated it as new hardware and when given options to get a driver had my Nvidia one ready and it worked a few days.

    yesterday reinstalled the driver with GeForce Experience too 

    Windows updates certainly coincide with this crap were big ones yesterday and now it’s completely cactus

     

    DDU will remove the existance of evefy driver version includimg all files and registry keys that have ever been installed on your system, if DDU doesn'tt fix your problem then nothing will

    I did try it and sadly when I installed the driver afterwards it was worse, much worse

    it crashed as soon as my desktop loaded

    not DDU's fault, my card just died

  • p0rtp0rt Posts: 217
    edited August 2019
    SadKitty_Carrara said:
    p0rt said:
    SadKitty_Carrara said:
    p0rt said:

    its down to windows being rubbish and installing the OEM display driver, while then you need to install the nVidia driver again from their site, and the clean install within the installer is rubbish, so you need to download and use DDU from https://www.guru3d.com/files-details/display-driver-uninstaller-download.html to fully uninstall driver's and start over

    I did completely remove the driver so that windows even thought my card was new hardware 

    and all the older installs about 20GB of them, I then treated it as new hardware and when given options to get a driver had my Nvidia one ready and it worked a few days.

    yesterday reinstalled the driver with GeForce Experience too 

    Windows updates certainly coincide with this crap were big ones yesterday and now it’s completely cactus

     

    DDU will remove the existance of evefy driver version includimg all files and registry keys that have ever been installed on your system, if DDU doesn'tt fix your problem then nothing will

    I did try it and sadly when I installed the driver afterwards it was worse, much worse

    it crashed as soon as my desktop loaded

    not DDU's fault, my card just died

    Reonstall the old drover that used to workinstead of the latest and check to see of the GPU fan actually works windows will normally have after thefirst boot whemyou use DDU, just restart and the OEM driver should ne installed, but not the nvodia windows update OEM drivers
    Post edited by p0rt on
  • WendyLuvsCatzWendyLuvsCatz Posts: 40,189
    edited August 2019
    p0rt said:
    SadKitty_Carrara said:
    p0rt said:
    SadKitty_Carrara said:
    p0rt said:

    its down to windows being rubbish and installing the OEM display driver, while then you need to install the nVidia driver again from their site, and the clean install within the installer is rubbish, so you need to download and use DDU from https://www.guru3d.com/files-details/display-driver-uninstaller-download.html to fully uninstall driver's and start over

    I did completely remove the driver so that windows even thought my card was new hardware 

    and all the older installs about 20GB of them, I then treated it as new hardware and when given options to get a driver had my Nvidia one ready and it worked a few days.

    yesterday reinstalled the driver with GeForce Experience too 

    Windows updates certainly coincide with this crap were big ones yesterday and now it’s completely cactus

     

    DDU will remove the existance of evefy driver version includimg all files and registry keys that have ever been installed on your system, if DDU doesn'tt fix your problem then nothing will

    I did try it and sadly when I installed the driver afterwards it was worse, much worse

    it crashed as soon as my desktop loaded

    not DDU's fault, my card just died

     

    Reonstall the old drover that used to workinstead of the latest and check to see of the GPU fan actually works windows will normally have after thefirst boot whemyou use DDU, just restart and the OEM driver should ne installed, but not the nvodia windows update OEM drivers

    I did use the installer for the driver that worked the longest out of the last 3,

    130.something

    it opened and was up after the purge but my mouse was stuck cycling a blue circle so after an hour I shut it down and restarted and installed that driver

    and after that it was all over

    the card is done I will confidently say now

    its working beautifuly with the 760

    so that says it all really 

    Post edited by WendyLuvsCatz on
  • fred9803fred9803 Posts: 1,565

    I'd head over to the Tom's Hardware forum to the graphic card thread. They're very helpful. Don't forget to include your specs and what you've tried so far in your initial post.

  • WendyLuvsCatzWendyLuvsCatz Posts: 40,189

    I have a paint stripping gun but don’t think I am game to give my solders a blow dry 

  • WendyLuvsCatzWendyLuvsCatz Posts: 40,189
    fred9803 said:

    I'd head over to the Tom's Hardware forum to the graphic card thread. They're very helpful. Don't forget to include your specs and what you've tried so far in your initial post.

    I did read lots of posts there

    believe me I had a damned good Google the last couple of weeks and tried lots of stuff

  • fred9803fred9803 Posts: 1,565

    You want to know what I'd do now. Take it into a computer shop and thell them to get the damn thing working properly. I know a fare bit about computers but nowhere near as much as those who do this stuff for a living. Sorry, not very helpful.

  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 108,329

    Posts on why-I-didn't-upgrade-to-Windows-10 removed.

  • IvyIvy Posts: 7,165
    edited August 2019
    Richard Haseltine said:

    Posts on why-I-didn't-upgrade-to-Windows-10 removed.

    Dang!   you sure know how to suck the fun out of a thread ...lol wink

    Post edited by Ivy on
  • p0rtp0rt Posts: 217
    SadKitty_Carrara said:
    p0rt said:
    SadKitty_Carrara said:
    p0rt said:
    SadKitty_Carrara said:
    p0rt said:

    its down to windows being rubbish and installing the OEM display driver, while then you need to install the nVidia driver again from their site, and the clean install within the installer is rubbish, so you need to download and use DDU from https://www.guru3d.com/files-details/display-driver-uninstaller-download.html to fully uninstall driver's and start over

    I did completely remove the driver so that windows even thought my card was new hardware 

    and all the older installs about 20GB of them, I then treated it as new hardware and when given options to get a driver had my Nvidia one ready and it worked a few days.

    yesterday reinstalled the driver with GeForce Experience too 

    Windows updates certainly coincide with this crap were big ones yesterday and now it’s completely cactus

     

    DDU will remove the existance of evefy driver version includimg all files and registry keys that have ever been installed on your system, if DDU doesn'tt fix your problem then nothing will

    I did try it and sadly when I installed the driver afterwards it was worse, much worse

    it crashed as soon as my desktop loaded

    not DDU's fault, my card just died

     

    Reonstall the old drover that used to workinstead of the latest and check to see of the GPU fan actually works windows will normally have after thefirst boot whemyou use DDU, just restart and the OEM driver should ne installed, but not the nvodia windows update OEM drivers

    I did use the installer for the driver that worked the longest out of the last 3,

    130.something

    it opened and was up after the purge but my mouse was stuck cycling a blue circle so after an hour I shut it down and restarted and installed that driver

    and after that it was all over

    the card is done I will confidently say now

    its working beautifuly with the 760

    so that says it all really 

    buy a bottle of isopropyl alcohol and clean the PCB lanes that go into the motherboard with some cotton wool or isopropyl alcohol wet wipe

  • WendyLuvsCatzWendyLuvsCatz Posts: 40,189
    edited August 2019
    p0rt said:
    SadKitty_Carrara said:
    p0rt said:
    SadKitty_Carrara said:
    p0rt said:
    SadKitty_Carrara said:
    p0rt said:

    its down to windows being rubbish and installing the OEM display driver, while then you need to install the nVidia driver again from their site, and the clean install within the installer is rubbish, so you need to download and use DDU from https://www.guru3d.com/files-details/display-driver-uninstaller-download.html to fully uninstall driver's and start over

    I did completely remove the driver so that windows even thought my card was new hardware 

    and all the older installs about 20GB of them, I then treated it as new hardware and when given options to get a driver had my Nvidia one ready and it worked a few days.

    yesterday reinstalled the driver with GeForce Experience too 

    Windows updates certainly coincide with this crap were big ones yesterday and now it’s completely cactus

     

    DDU will remove the existance of evefy driver version includimg all files and registry keys that have ever been installed on your system, if DDU doesn'tt fix your problem then nothing will

    I did try it and sadly when I installed the driver afterwards it was worse, much worse

    it crashed as soon as my desktop loaded

    not DDU's fault, my card just died

     

    Reonstall the old drover that used to workinstead of the latest and check to see of the GPU fan actually works windows will normally have after thefirst boot whemyou use DDU, just restart and the OEM driver should ne installed, but not the nvodia windows update OEM drivers

    I did use the installer for the driver that worked the longest out of the last 3,

    130.something

    it opened and was up after the purge but my mouse was stuck cycling a blue circle so after an hour I shut it down and restarted and installed that driver

    and after that it was all over

    the card is done I will confidently say now

    its working beautifuly with the 760

    so that says it all really 

    buy a bottle of isopropyl alcohol and clean the PCB lanes that go into the motherboard with some cotton wool or isopropyl alcohol wet wipe

    Using my 760 now, I am not even going to attempt a resurrection at this point

    a metal object sitting across the soldered circuits is a very likely cause of a short as it got worse too moving the case and fiddling and using before I found it

    Post edited by WendyLuvsCatz on
  • p0rtp0rt Posts: 217
    SadKitty_Carrara said:
    p0rt said:
    SadKitty_Carrara said:
    p0rt said:
    SadKitty_Carrara said:
    p0rt said:
    SadKitty_Carrara said:
    p0rt said:

    its down to windows being rubbish and installing the OEM display driver, while then you need to install the nVidia driver again from their site, and the clean install within the installer is rubbish, so you need to download and use DDU from https://www.guru3d.com/files-details/display-driver-uninstaller-download.html to fully uninstall driver's and start over

    I did completely remove the driver so that windows even thought my card was new hardware 

    and all the older installs about 20GB of them, I then treated it as new hardware and when given options to get a driver had my Nvidia one ready and it worked a few days.

    yesterday reinstalled the driver with GeForce Experience too 

    Windows updates certainly coincide with this crap were big ones yesterday and now it’s completely cactus

     

    DDU will remove the existance of evefy driver version includimg all files and registry keys that have ever been installed on your system, if DDU doesn'tt fix your problem then nothing will

    I did try it and sadly when I installed the driver afterwards it was worse, much worse

    it crashed as soon as my desktop loaded

    not DDU's fault, my card just died

     

    Reonstall the old drover that used to workinstead of the latest and check to see of the GPU fan actually works windows will normally have after thefirst boot whemyou use DDU, just restart and the OEM driver should ne installed, but not the nvodia windows update OEM drivers

    I did use the installer for the driver that worked the longest out of the last 3,

    130.something

    it opened and was up after the purge but my mouse was stuck cycling a blue circle so after an hour I shut it down and restarted and installed that driver

    and after that it was all over

    the card is done I will confidently say now

    its working beautifuly with the 760

    so that says it all really 

    buy a bottle of isopropyl alcohol and clean the PCB lanes that go into the motherboard with some cotton wool or isopropyl alcohol wet wipe

    Using my 760 now, I am not even going to attempt a resurrection at this point

    a metal object sitting across the soldered circuits is a very likely cause of a short as it got worse too moving the case and fiddling and using before I found it

    pick up a 1070, they are £200 on ebay in the uk, even on amazon, the mighty palit super jetstream is £194 https://www.amazon.co.uk/Palit-NE5105T018G1-1071D-GTX1050-PCIe3-1392MHz/dp/B07R5PB838/ref=asc_df_B07R5PB838/?tag=googshopuk-21&linkCode=df0&hvadid=231922815069&hvpos=1o1&hvnetw=g&hvrand=16103629559174863525&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9045612&hvtargid=pla-776857035754&psc=1&th=1&psc=1

  • WendyLuvsCatzWendyLuvsCatz Posts: 40,189

    Damn now my 760 is doing it too

    I better haul my PC to the repair shop

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