GTX 780 Ti dying?

[Madhu N]

Dear Gurus,

I am facing a strange issue. Did a PC build 4 years ago and put in Inno3D GTX 780 TI IChill. It worked like charm all these years. Last week, after NVidia driver updates it started crashing. I tried different versions of the driver but no good. It started going into reboot loop. Was on Windows 10 1803.

Microsoft agent advised to to try 1709 version as it is more stable and compatible with NVidia drivers. Tried that but no hope. I then installed Windows 7 Ultimate and hoped it would holdup. Initially things looks good Windows 7 is booting, NVidia drivers are loaded without errors and not crashing.

When I started playing games/trying out diagnostic/GPU testing software (Heaven) the driver is crashing. Tried basic test and it worked fine. But if I do any advanced testing, the driver is crashing.

I took out the GPU cleaned it up with compressed air and wiped it clean from dust. The GPU looks like new now! But it doesn't work.

Anybody with similar experience can advise me whether they faced similar problem and how you dealt with it? Is the GPU dying? Should I get a new one? My son wanted to play games (of all times) now. Any advise is appreciated. Let me know of any diagnostic programs which I can run to see how the GPU is keeping up. If I remove the GTX 780 Ti and work with the stock Intel HD all works fine so probably the issue is with 780 Ti only.

Thanks a lot in advance.

Madhu

 

[Madhu N]

Thanks for replying BUDFORCE.

Is there any hope with refurbing using reflow? Found someone who does it for £99. Or is it waste of money and spend that on a better GPU?

 

[Madhu N]

Thanks Rroff. Let me try that tonight. I am even planning to do a reflow myself if it fixes for now atleast. Any tips or insights in doing it myself?

 

[Madhu N]

That information is enough. I will check any threads on it.

Just looking into the GPU markets and being on a budget this time and knowing that I will use single screen 1080p screen only for games wanted to find out if Palit GTX 1060 Super JetStream 6GB is good enough. Hope that is good enough for my setup..

 

[Madhu N]

I wouldn't spend £99 on a reflow that is a good chunk of the money for a comparable performance GPU these days - and often with GPUs a reflow will only buy you a few more months if it is on its way out.

Try downclocking the VRAM and core by about 100MHz or so on the GPU see if it is still crashing - its probably no longer stable at the stock voltage though again if it is on the way out that will only buy some time before it completely fails.

Tried downclocking the VRAM but of not use. It became more unstable. I tested memtestG80 and it showed many errors in the first pass itself. Does that mean my VRAM is the problem? I reckon then reflow wouldn't even work.