GTX295 Broken, fixable?

[chrispduckdunn]

Randomly my GTX295 decided to stop working after 5 minites of working one day(i have been using it for around 4 months, also i have installed a liquid cooling block so i cannot return it), it displayed on all three of my screens a multicoloured pixel screen for about 5 seconds before rebooting the PC.
After this happened i cleaned out the PC dusting and so on. then booted without screens plugged in, it indicated it was working so i placed it back to start it again with the screens connected, i got nothing and since then it has not work, ive had a couple of people examine it and theyve only come to the conclusion that there is heat in the Memory but not the GPU.

The power is flowing through fine the light that indicates sufficient power does react when theres not enough or enough power also the light does turn red when powered up and removed from a motherboard.

Also i know enough that it is not my motherboard as it has been tested in others.

Any advice would be greatly appereciated,
Chris.

 

[cmndr_andi]

What is the make of the card?

If it's EVGA then you can try an RMA as they will allow a non-stock cooler, so long as they are attached properly/didn't cause the problem and the card gets sent back to them with the stock cooler installed.

 

[chrispduckdunn]

its ASUS and theyve said they wont touch it with a barge pole.

 

[HeX]

Replace the stock cooler, see if it fixes it, if it doesn't, RMA it, but don't tell them you ever took it off

 

[scorchisio]

failing that have you heard of the oven trick? always worth it as a last resort, remove any cooling devices and youtube oven graphics card

 

[straxusii]

I was just about to post the oven trick, damn beaten to it!

 

[chrispduckdunn]

dont have original heatsink anymore obviosly id put it back and mail it back if i did but i didnt think ahead when i removed it. and im trying to leave oven trick as LAST resort, hoping some one has a good idea or a recomendation other than baking £400 worth of PCB boards lol

 

[hyperst]

you could check the solder joints for cracks and if find them resolder them, i would probly just remelt every joint i could , especially on a expensive card

 

[Auraomega]

Lol @oven trick, I thought it was a joke like the microwave bricked PSP

Dry points are a bane of electronics, but theres a damn lot of points to check and if you're not too handy with an iron, you may end up melting part of the board... if you've nothing to lose then might as well try it

 

[chrispduckdunn]

oh i can jus skim over all the components with a DMM fairly fast, im an electronic engineer im just dern lazy and dont have the schematics to cross clarify what should be fixed + i know nout bout GPUs, so the verdict is check the souldering, and what if its not that? :S