Anyone know of a graphics card repair center??? Changed thermal pads on my RTX 3090 now no display..

[justwondering]

Pretttttty gutted at the moment, I have double-checked on a 2nd system, stripped it down and checked everything, all the thermal pads were measured and the correct sizes used depth etc, 1mm replaced with 1 mm etc.

I have not had any issues with many other cards that I have repasted in the past.

The card lights up, and the fans spin, but no display at all.

I have checked cables.

There is no sign of bowing on the card, it went back together well, screws went in nice and tight.

It is an rtx 3090, it would still be under warranty as it is around 24 months old, but I guess with me breaking the warranty seal, the warranty with ASUS will be voided????

Any help or advice would be great, but a good repair centre recommendation would be great too.

 

[justwondering]

It was working fine before you took it apart? Tried a different cable, HDMI instead of DP or vice versa?

Yeah, it was working perfectly fine, tried various cables, tried on two systems, both system work fine with my other graphics card, with the same cables etc.

 

[justwondering]

tried all display outputs and swapped bios over?

Yeah, It has a bios switch, tried both, no output at all on any of the display outputs.

It is an Asus tuf, I am guessing they will not touch it now under the remaining warranty ?!?! anyone know

 

[justwondering]

Thank you all for your replies and help.

I contacted the genius Youtube repair guy at Tech Cemetery, he is based in America (I think) but he has recommended a good repair place in the UK, I have checked their feedback too, seem to have a good rep.

I bought the card from Overclockers, might give them a call in the morning, to see what their past experience have been like with broken seal ASUS RMA repairs.

Upon reflection and pondering what may have gone wrong, I'm guessing when cleaning off the old paste I might have knocked a resistor around the main core.

So I'm hoping it will be a fairly easy repair and not too expensive.

When I put the card In the system, no display from either onboard or from the GPU, which might indicate a short on the GPU... Which could be caused by a resistor issue.

With the right magnification equipment, hopefully it will be an easy fix...

I shall update the post with how things go, as it might be helpful for others in the future.