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It bit the dust

13oots2

13oots2

13oots2

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Have had no end of problems with a 3070 I bought second hand. When I first got it during the second heatwave it was hitting a really high temp, I then reapplied thermal paste and pads, what a faff that was, and all seemed well.

I bought some new Team Group memory a few days back and was in the process of overclocking it. I kept getting black screens in Memtest and assumed that I had pushed the memory too far, eventually I put the BIOS back to stock and had the same issue. I was also getting random black screens in Windows.

I took the 3070 out and checked if the contacts were clean, then pugged it back in.....nothing. Numerous attemts to get it working have failed and I am now sat using an ancient laptop until next month.

Moral of the story, buy new and don't take it apart!
 
It's an odd coincidence that it would be intermittent and also fail precisely after you open your case to do the ram upgrade. Are you 100% that all your power connectors, motherboard & GPU, are fully seated, if you have modular cables check the PSU side too.
 
Have tried the cables, even tried different connector sockets and even tried different PCIe slot, card is totally dead. monitor works fine too, have it plugged into my laptop.
 
Is your motherboard complaining the gpu is not responding. Are you using the same cable to connect you laptop.
 
I started having the black screens more frequently, so assumed my RAM overclock was the issue. Took the card out and wiped the contacts, put it all back in and card is totally dead, there is power to the card from PCIe as the logo lights up. Computer boots normally with no display but card doesn't even get warm or spin the fans. I am guessing it has popped a MOSFET, or the GPU is shot, I guess buying second hand you never know how much abuse the card has seen in the past.
 
Have broken my first rule and bought a 1070Ti second hand to tide me over the next couple of months, have only been using the laptop since yesterday and it is already driving me insane. It is good to have a spare GC in case the worst happens.
 
have you tried resetting the CMOS?

also removing all peripherals apart from Display port, keyboard and mouse?

also make sure that the SSD wire is property connected to the mobo, sounds random but this can cause black screen and no boot. Basically my system was originally watercooled and had a GPU block. Now i have a standard GPU i had to rework my loop caused a leak and took everything out, thought i had blown my 3080 GPU but it turned out to be SSD Cable. Sweaty nuts at the time as the original PCI adapter was shot which was caused by coolant getting into the wiring no power to GPU MASS panic.

Also what mobo do you have?
 
Freddie1980 said:
have you tried contacting the manufacturer and see if they will take it back under RMA?
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Card was second hand and I had reapplied TIM and thermal pads, thinking back I had issues with the card from the beginning. It would heavily thermal throttle when I got it during the first heatwave, I then took it apart and seemed to solve the heat issue, thinking about the performance of my 2070 Super, it seemed to slow down in certain spots in Cyberpunk. I should've sent it back in the first place, but refused to admit to myself it was problematic, I just put it down to the hot weather. I very much doubt if Inno3D would even look at it now.
 
13oots2 said:
Card was second hand and I had reapplied TIM and thermal pads, thinking back I had issues with the card from the beginning. It would heavily thermal throttle when I got it during the first heatwave, I then took it apart and seemed to solve the heat issue, thinking about the performance of my 2070 Super, it seemed to slow down in certain spots in Cyberpunk. I should've sent it back in the first place, but refused to admit to myself it was problematic, I just put it down to the hot weather. I very much doubt if Inno3D would even look at it now.
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You have nothing to loose by trying though.
Right now you have a dead 3070. If you send it to Inno3D and they deny your RMA, you still have a dead 3070. At worst they would charge you shipping.

Be selective with what you tell them. "My 3070 no longer boots. I just get black screen"
Keep it brieft, and only to the relevant information.

Chances are they will chuck it in a test bench to confirm your issue and then just send a refurb back. I highly doubt they will take it apart and see you changed the pads/TIM.
 
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