Hey guys, I've got a 1080ti that's on the fritz, and while I haven't finished testing every scenario I can think of, I'm beginning to suspect its an issue with some smd, cap, or potentially a vram chip.
It works intermittently, but every time I've removed the card, put it back in the system it's from, or others, I get different weirdness. Visual inspection doesn't show any obvious signs of damaged components, etc. but symptoms will range from whatever system it's in either not booting, rebooting repeatedly, video artifacting, driver crashes, etc, but they're usually consistent (repeatable), with whichever symptom it's showing.
Yet at one point, after problems first started manifesting, and i thought it was toast, I got it to work fine for a week (even in gaming and under stress without a single hiccup), before I moved the system off the bench back to where it usually lives, and it was back to it.
I've checked for shorts, even removed every component from that system and checked each in isolation, and the gpu in other machines with different PSU's and on different MBs.
I mean, I will probably go ahead and buy another card regardless, but I kind of hate to give up on it, if it's a flakey cap, or something similar though should be easy enough to replace, although this is a little outside of my wheel house (I do have a background in this stuff, just not at the circuit level). This card was a pain from day one, being an MSI Armor OC (the one that had all the overheating issues that MSI was refusing to acknowledge), that I ended up watercooling, to great results in terms of the OC performance, since at the time, getting a replacement was impossible with the mining scene. I'm kind of stubbornly invested in not letting go until there's no hope with this thing.
Figured I'd ask here though, if there's any outfit, or individual, that takes on this kind of work, before I start poking around a bit more invasively with the DMM and scope. Anyway, thanks for the help guys!
It works intermittently, but every time I've removed the card, put it back in the system it's from, or others, I get different weirdness. Visual inspection doesn't show any obvious signs of damaged components, etc. but symptoms will range from whatever system it's in either not booting, rebooting repeatedly, video artifacting, driver crashes, etc, but they're usually consistent (repeatable), with whichever symptom it's showing.
Yet at one point, after problems first started manifesting, and i thought it was toast, I got it to work fine for a week (even in gaming and under stress without a single hiccup), before I moved the system off the bench back to where it usually lives, and it was back to it.
I've checked for shorts, even removed every component from that system and checked each in isolation, and the gpu in other machines with different PSU's and on different MBs.
I mean, I will probably go ahead and buy another card regardless, but I kind of hate to give up on it, if it's a flakey cap, or something similar though should be easy enough to replace, although this is a little outside of my wheel house (I do have a background in this stuff, just not at the circuit level). This card was a pain from day one, being an MSI Armor OC (the one that had all the overheating issues that MSI was refusing to acknowledge), that I ended up watercooling, to great results in terms of the OC performance, since at the time, getting a replacement was impossible with the mining scene. I'm kind of stubbornly invested in not letting go until there's no hope with this thing.
Figured I'd ask here though, if there's any outfit, or individual, that takes on this kind of work, before I start poking around a bit more invasively with the DMM and scope. Anyway, thanks for the help guys!