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A call for Help please if i may.

@howdeedoodee someone on the members market is selling a 1070 for £330 and I've offered to facilitate a deal for you if you want it as you do not have enough posts to do a deal with him. However if you need a minimum of a 3080ti for your VR set up it's obviously not that level
 
@howdeedoodee, any chance of some photos of the card?
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Yep this would be a good idea

Maldoror said:
A 2080Ti isn't like GDDR6X. Lots of people run that card 'naked' with an NZXT bracket - and as long as the fan is moving air and they aren't doing crazy overclocks, it isn't a problem, e.g. https://www.reddit.com/r/nvidia/comments/ac5j9o/vrm_cooling_on_a_2080_ti_with_kraken_g12/

Obviously cooling the VRAM and VRM is better than not doing it. But it's unlikely to be related to the failure in this case. For one thing, the type of failure here doesn't point toward VRAM - overheating VRAM would manifest in artifacts, etc. before total non-response on boot.

It's also worth noting that even when tech tubers ran their 2080Ti overclocking competitions, they often ran their VRAM and VRMs naked and Gamersnexus even noted at one point that his temps improved! Of course, a hot case will be different to a test bench - but it doesn't sound like OP has been overclocking.
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I would double check though as people who didnt put heatsinks on probably also changed the default fan but I've had several NZXT brackets from 970, 980, 980ti, 1080, 1080ti cards and no way would I leave the VRAM and VRM with nothing on. The fan doesnt even blow on the VRAM. There is a reason the stock cooler cools the VRAM and VRM and to not have any on there and rely on the fan is pure crazy thats my experience and my opinion. If the VRM's have blown due to no cooling then you would get symptoms of no display. Also with the 2080ti there are VRM'S on the left side of the board which the default fan doesnt touch. After reading the reddit post quite a few changed the default fan and also put another fan on the left of the board. In fact some used heatsinks!

Considering a 2080ti runs quite hot and how much it was at the time no way would I have even put a NZXT bracked on it ! :) The G12's were not even designed for the 2080ti as you had to use the AMD holes for it to fit.
 
Benass said:
here is a video about warranty in america. 20 min but damn good video informative.

I know uk and eu is not america, but still, the tape on vcr or sticker on screw means.
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But this isn't the USA, so that video is entirely irrelevant...
 
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Hi Folks

I really appreciate the help and can't thank you enough.

I've now taken a short video on my phone of what the motherboard LED's are doing and the graphics card with the NZXT running, how do i upload it.
The only cables that go to the card are the 2 x 8 pin connectors, these 2 x 8 pin connectors come from one cable from the power supply, is this correct as i read that its better for the card to be run off 2 x separate cables from power supply for more power? I haven't got a clue i just read it.
It make me wonder why GPU's dont have diagnostic LED's
There's 2 x cables for the NZXT but apart from the 2 x 8 pin power connectors i mentioned i assume there's no more cables that go to the graphics card as everything comes from the slot?
I came across this asus motherboard diagnostic led video:
Some answers below to questions recieved with thanks, I'll list them individually

The SSD green light randomly flickers like it's booting/loading up.
I haven't got another GPU to try.
I dont have anyone else with a PC i could try my 2080ti in.
I would need at least a 2080 to run the VR headset.
The shop said my pc boots up with another GPU (hope they're being honest)
I got the PC back form the shop with the GPU off the NZXT and super carfully put back on the NZXT with some kryonaut thermal paste i got online from Amazon, I watched a video and followed it to the T and made a earth strap out of copper wire to ground myself and even put on latex gloves.
I'm in Nottingham.
I watched a video today of these new mining machines being relesed any day now having the power of 32 x RTX3080's with 10 x less power draw so maybe the GPU shortgae may get better??
Here's that video:
My GPU was probably switched on 25 times for an hour of 2 at a time since new.
Not been overclocked.
Court route...not sure if the grief, letter writing, facts gathering, sleepless nights, traveling to court etc, etc is worth it.
The motherboard is an Asus x570 gaming extreme or something like that.
I read that the Vram is cooled by the NZXT fan constantly blowing air over them.
Trying to think of anything else...i think thats it for now.
One question i would love to know is do Overclockers do basic repairs themselves to the GPU? or does it go straight back to Zotac? i watched a video of a repair centre replacing an onboard fuse on a 2080, it was really tiny, i wonder if overclockers could repair and at what cost.
I noticed on one GPU board manufacturer site that they are putting on resettable fuses to their newest cards....was it EVGA.
Kind regards
John
 
Sorry if I missed something
I am not good with loads of text
What psu do you have?
Yes ideally use 2 separate cables for 8 pin

You said the gpu diagnostic light goes out after six seconds or so
Far as I know if the board detects a fault the diagnostic light does not go out

This is simple to try
Some windows update caused one of my monitors to refuse to show anything
At all over display port or hdmi
I had to connect by Hdmi cable but
Then I had to manually select the input on the monitor
NOT wait for the monitor to try to automatically detect it
Once that made it display I could connect the display port cable again
And everything worked fine after that
 
I wonder if it is the micro fuse blown? I know my way around a multimeter, I could test it for continuity power off??...seems to be quite a few video's of people replacing the fuse...or is it a resettable one? see picture here of one. https://imgur.com/a/tH986hJ
Not that i would replace it but would Overclockers or a repair centre, it would have been nice for overclockers to of said what the fault was..or maybe they dont repair so couldn't.
 
My first suggestion would be try the manually selecting
Input on your monitor
I know for sure I cured someone's problem on here
And on tomshardware forum with this a while back

Next suspect would always be your psu
Did they cheap out on the psu?
Do you have extra cables on there to try
2 separate cables to the gpu?
 
Mcnumpty2323 said:
Sorry if I missed something
I am not good with loads of text
What psu do you have?
Yes ideally use 2 separate cables for 8 pin

You said the gpu diagnostic light goes out after six seconds or so
Far as I know if the board detects a fault the diagnostic light does not go out

This is simple to try
Some windows update caused one of my monitors to refuse to show anything
At all over display port or hdmi
I had to connect by Hdmi cable but
Then I had to manually select the input on the monitor
NOT wait for the monitor to try to automatically detect it
Once that made it display I could connect the display port cable again
And everything worked fine after that
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When pressing the power button the cpu and vram led light up together straight away then go off after exactly 12 seconds, then the vga led flickers on for a split second then flicks to boot for a split second then the boot light goes off after a split second then the vga led lights up for exactly 12 seconds then goes off.
power supply is an Enigma 850w g2
I read this about what you was saying about windows, see here:https://tehnoblog.org/graphics-card-repair-how-i-fixed-gpu-card/
it says about Windows disconnecting the graphics card??or does it
 
Mcnumpty2323 said:
My first suggestion would be try the manually selecting
Input on your monitor
I know for sure I cured someone's problem on here
And on tomshardware forum with this a while back

Next suspect would always be your psu
Did they cheap out on the psu?
Do you have extra cables on there to try
2 separate cables to the gpu?
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I tried manually selecting display port and hdmi, i tried both outputs
 
No thats a bit different there thats windows switching
To basic adapter and stuff

Looks like that psu may be a rebadged seasonic
Which would rule out its a junk psu
But I would still prefer 2 cables to the gpu if you can test that
Instead of one cable that splits to two 8 pin
 
Mcnumpty2323 said:
No thats a bit different there thats windows switching
To basic adapter and stuff

Looks like that psu may be a rebadged seasonic
Which would rule out its a junk psu
But I would still prefer 2 cables to the gpu if you can test that
Instead of one cable that splits to two 8 pin
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I'm just trying the 2 x sperate 8 pin connectors...although it always worked from 1
 
howdeedoodee said:
No thats a bit different there thats windows switching
To basic adapter and stuff

What does that mean?
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Means it showed text for boot sequence
But then decided it didn't like the gpu for some reason
So defaulted to basic adaptor instead of gtx1080
Or whatever gpu was installed
Instead of loading the nvidia driver
Thats what the link you posted was about
 
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Out of interest
I know you only have a few posts
But you're a very long term member
Do you get access to members market?
Thought somewhere I read something about that
 
Ok so just tried 2 x 8 pin connectors and still no signal from display port or HDMI.
Led's still do the same thing.
I tried plugging the GPU in the other port...is this all you have to do regarding plugging it in the other port.
whats the button on the back of power supply for? is it a boosts button or something.
 
Do graphics cards have unique ID numbers a bit like mobile phones?
The devil in me just thought Amazon has Trillions...order a RTX2080TI from them direct and send them back the faulty one....It'll then go back to Zotac where it belongs.
There's some bits i cant find from original cooler...I've been looking on Ebay every day for a cooler, but it no doubt has to be a zoatc one, is their name printed on the original cooler? I cant remember without looking for the old one i have....somewhere?
 
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