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Nvidia 572.16 bricked my GPU!
- Thread starter Mr Mcgoo
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We've had MMOs bricking the 30 series cards before so I wouldn't be too quick to jump to that conclusion (New World in 2021 bricking cards with "suboptimal" soldering)
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Im happy to be proven wrong but I just cant see how a driver is bricking a card. Causing issues within OS yes....but bricking to the point its not even detected at boot? Even if the driver was applying a MAD overclock the hardware wouldn't let you fry the card. 
Perhaps the driver is exposing a hardware weakness?
It's purely coincidental?
Surely the driver would need to be making firmware updates/changes for this to occur?
Perhaps the driver is exposing a hardware weakness?
It's purely coincidental?
Surely the driver would need to be making firmware updates/changes for this to occur?
Soldato
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Im happy to be proven wrong but I just cant see how a driver is bricking a card. Causing issues within OS yes....but bricking to the point its not even detected at boot? Even if the driver was applying a MAD overclock the hardware wouldn't let you fry the card.
Perhaps the driver is exposing a hardware weakness?
It's purely coincidental?
Surely the driver would need to be making firmware updates/changes for this to occur?
Yeah I'm thinking the same. Unless the driver as you said does a stupid vcore voltage overclock or something. But it's not like the driver can instruct the vcore to be 12v, so what is the actual maximum in the hardware if you deliberately wanted to fry it?
nVidia firmware wont let you kill the card with voltage. You need a flashed and modified bios to do this.
The Boost algorithm is a pretty safe sandbox all in all.
Im happy to be proven wrong but I just cant see how a driver is bricking a card. Causing issues within OS yes....but bricking to the point its not even detected at boot? Even if the driver was applying a MAD overclock the hardware wouldn't let you fry the card.
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Try a different pcie slot if you have one.
Years back, had a similar problem with an MSI mb that just stopped working out the blue after a driver update, couldn't troubleshoot the reason why, but the MB/GPU both worked flawlessly for years separately in different systems.
I'd try your new GPU in the mates system first to rule out that the GPU isn't faulty before sending it back.
Years back, had a similar problem with an MSI mb that just stopped working out the blue after a driver update, couldn't troubleshoot the reason why, but the MB/GPU both worked flawlessly for years separately in different systems.
I'd try your new GPU in the mates system first to rule out that the GPU isn't faulty before sending it back.
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If a driver or even a game can brick the GPU then the firmware is faulty and not doing its job.
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Wasn't that Amazon game killing GPUs not too long ago.
The new driver hasn't been happy with my 4090. I've had a couple of boots into a no signal black screen. The fix I found for my issue was turning off vrr on the screen, the picture then appears after a few seconds. I can then turn vrr back on and it works. This has happened 2x since I updated to the new driver.
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Variable refresh rate (e.g. Gsync/Freesync)
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No, the hardware was faulty. A game cannot kill a GPU.
NV pulled the 690 launch driver, it killed a few 690s back in the day.
GeForce RTX 5090 Founders Edition card suffers melted connector after user uses third-party cable - VideoCardz.com
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"its important to note the user admitted to using a non-official cable"
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