Founders 3080 no display

[Russ holmes]

Hi. My son's gaming monitor froze last night. With a loud beep from the PC. It needed the power button holding down to turn off. Since then there has been no display. The motherboard is stuck on the White GPU light.
I've tried a few things. I'll list below.
Reseated RAM. & Tried 1 stick in each slot.
Reseated GPU
Reset bios . Also removed battery for 5 mins.
Checked all connections.
Tried different display and HDMI cables.
I borrowed my other son's GPU and it booted fine.
While it was on.
I updated GPU drivers
Updated bios
Checked Windows was all up to date.
Refitting the GPU afterwards left the same issue. No picture and white light on mobo.
I put the GPU in my other son's PC and it showed the same fault.
So I'm pretty sure the GPU is faulty. It's a founders edition 3080. Its warranty run out in February so before we have to buy a new one I wondered if anyone may have any other way of recovering it. . I've done the basics but now out of ideas.
This has happened before and just power cycling it got it working again. It has very light use and crashed while just browsing web. It's never been under any heavy load or over temp.
Any advise appreciated. Thanks

 

[Alt0153]

its dead jim

 

[Itc]

Put Founders 3080 in other sons PC ?

 

[Itc]

Put Founders 3080 in other sons PC ?

Sorry just saw you tried that. I would tear it down and re paste just to be sure.

 

[Russ holmes]

Thought as much . I'm a bit out of the loop since the 30 series came out. His PC is 5 - 6 years old now. It's running on a 3700x with a B450 mobo. Is it worth moving up to a 40 / 50 series or just getting another 3080.

 

[Tetras]

Is it worth moving up to a 40 / 50 series or just getting another 3080.

It might have been 5 years ago, but I'm afraid progress has been slow and even a 5070 is not that much faster than a 3080. You're looking at £400+ to replace it with a new card.

 

[deviation]

Get a repaste done first, then make up your mind At least then you'll know that you've tried everything that you can to bring it back from the dead

 

[Russ holmes]

Get a repaste done first, then make up your mind At least then you'll know that you've tried everything that you can to bring it back from the dead

To be honest. I'm not that confident to strip it. But I'll check on you tube see if there's any guides. Like you say it's worth a go. I've got nothing to loose. Except cost of a tube of paste. .
The founders 4070 is £499. Is that the best bang for buck if all else fails. Just worried rest of system won't keep up.

 

[deviation]

To be honest. I'm not that confident to strip it. But I'll check on you tube see if there's any guides. Like you say it's worth a go. I've got nothing to loose. Except cost of a tube of paste. .
The founders 4070 is £499. Is that the best bang for buck if all else fails. Just worried rest of system won't keep up.

Ah mate, it can be a bit overwhelming at first, but like you say, get a guide up, pause it every step of the way, and take your time!
A litle tip, get a sheet of paper, do a crude drawing of the card, and push the screws through the location of each corresponding, so you don't have to remember or worry about them rolling further away from wherever you place them during deconstruction

Exactly, it's worth a shot for a tube of paste, then if it works great, if not, you can film yourself creatively destroying it, and share the video on this thread You can't loose either way

Ah decent, that'll do you well if you were able to pair it with a secondhand 5600X, 5700X, 5800X, 5700X3D

 

[eeii]

To be honest. I'm not that confident to strip it. But I'll check on you tube see if there's any guides. Like you say it's worth a go. I've got nothing to loose. Except cost of a tube of paste. .
The founders 4070 is £499. Is that the best bang for buck if all else fails. Just worried rest of system won't keep up.

You can get a power color reaper 9070 for 489. According to tech power up it’s 21% faster