Card dying?

[Armadillo]

Was browsing on my other pc, screen went black and said no signal. Reset to be greeted by

It's not drivers as it was also on the post screen. Temperatures were fine as well while it was doing it.

It's an old 7800GTX so I just thought, it's time has come, but I gave it a reboot after a little while and it's fine.

So as I've never had a card die, couple of questions.

Could it have just needed reseating? (I've since done that) and was just not making good contact? Could that cause it? Or is it just dying a slow death and will just get worse?

Thanks.

 

[varkanoid]

did you check for dust build up on the fan/heatsink and clean it ? Did you also make sure the PCIE slot was dust free ?

Its a sign it could be on its way out. However if its fine now then no probs.

 

[Armadillo]

No dust in/on the slot and card was pretty much dust free. Cleaned what little was there before I reseated it. It did sort itself before I reseated it and gave it a clean.

Just seemed a little odd, working fine, then not working and then working again with nothing being done other than resetting the machine.

 

[trickynickyuk]

your card is on its way out by the looks of it

 

[Gregster]

Maybe the cable? If you have another cable, try. If no joy, I would be inclined to think your card is dieing.

 

[Armadillo]

Well, pretty sure it's dying/dead.

Ran fine, for the last few days and now

Little out of focus (camera is bad and can't focus quick enough), but you get the idea.

It's had a decent run though.

 

[craarc]

take it out take all the pastic off it put it in the oven at 180 c for 8 mins

reassamble it try it/.. worked for me for 6 months on a gtx8800 couple years ago google it maybe dry solder joints

just check the temps and the time as it was a while back but it was along those lines

save an old card untill u get more pennies and it may last longer than that u never know if u fry it buy another anyways ... no loss

 

[shawsy109]

take it out take all the pastic off it put it in the oven at 180 c for 8 mins

reassamble it try it/.. worked for me for 6 months on a gtx8800 couple years ago google it maybe dry solder joints

just check the temps and the time as it was a while back but it was along those lines

save an old card untill u get more pennies and it may last longer than that u never know if u fry it buy another anyways ... no loss

If the cards dying/dead a baking might fix it, for a while. Id just get a new card sorted now before your card totally dies.

 

[Orcvader]

It looks like the VRAM is on the way out. But yes, try the old baking trick, it seems to squeeze more life out of the old Nvidia cards.

 

[Armadillo]

take it out take all the pastic off it put it in the oven at 180 c for 8 mins

reassamble it try it/.. worked for me for 6 months on a gtx8800 couple years ago google it maybe dry solder joints

just check the temps and the time as it was a while back but it was along those lines

save an old card untill u get more pennies and it may last longer than that u never know if u fry it buy another anyways ... no loss

If the cards dying/dead a baking might fix it, for a while. Id just get a new card sorted now before your card totally dies.

It looks like the VRAM is on the way out. But yes, try the old baking trick, it seems to squeeze more life out of the old Nvidia cards.

Card is in spare machine, so no need to squeeze any life out of it, pc can just stay off until I grab another card .

 

[zx|muppet]

take it out take all the pastic off it put it in the oven at 180 c for 8 mins

reassamble it try it/.. worked for me for 6 months on a gtx8800 couple years ago google it maybe dry solder joints

just check the temps and the time as it was a while back but it was along those lines

save an old card untill u get more pennies and it may last longer than that u never know if u fry it buy another anyways ... no loss

he speaks the truth!! in my old xps 1730 laptop i had the gfx card die and the laptop screen looked like yours! baked the card and it worked fine after that

 

[shawsy109]

he speaks the truth!! in my old xps 1730 laptop i had the gfx card die and the laptop screen looked like yours! baked the card and it worked fine after that

Did you bake the whole laptop?