possibility of saving a short circuited 1080ti

Brandon Hamilton · 7 Apr 2021 at 22:05

Pretty sure I shorted my Zotac 1080ti amp extreme, the lights and fans still work etc but is no longer displaying outputs or is detected by the PC - if taken to a professional is there a good chance it can be recovered?

StephenJ · 8 Apr 2021 at 09:26

I would think this will be down to the level and location of any damage , do you know how the card was damaged ?

Sipha · 8 Apr 2021 at 09:31

How did you manage to short it ?

Drangueos · 8 Apr 2021 at 10:30

Depends what is damaged on the card, could be just a fuse, resistor, something simple or could be something serious.
The only way to know is for someone to check it.

Brandon Hamilton · 8 Apr 2021 at 10:49

Well I plugged in a new WiFi chip and now I'm having all sorts of problems, sometimes my m.2 won't be recognised on bootup, and sometimes the WiFi chip works and sometimes it doesn't? Problem could lie with my PSU?

Drangueos · 8 Apr 2021 at 10:54

Wifi chip you mean an USB?
Maybe the motherboard is the issue, maybe you damaged an USB port?
It is hard to guess without checking the PC, could be so many things.

Brandon Hamilton · 8 Apr 2021 at 10:55

It was a tplink one that slots straight into the mobo, replaced the mobo and still having issues, got my GPU at a specialist now so fingers crossed

dazzlaa · 8 Apr 2021 at 11:01

Could quite easily be motherboard damage. Did you try other pci slots?
Hopefully it’s not too serious.

Brandon Hamilton · 8 Apr 2021 at 11:11

Well I tried all of them, still no improvement. Installed new mobo yesterday and were up and running just with the occasional hiccup on booting up

StephenJ · 8 Apr 2021 at 11:59

Whats the full spec of the machine ?

Brandon Hamilton · 8 Apr 2021 at 14:54

Brand new gigabyte z390 UD
I7 8700k @3.70ghz
Zotac 1080ti amp extreme
16gb 3000mhz vengeance ram
Windows 10 pro
Corsair 850w bronze
Samsung 970 Evo 500gb

JohnG7 · 8 Apr 2021 at 17:59

Did you try your GPU with HDMI?

Brandon Hamilton · 8 Apr 2021 at 19:05

Yeah I have, didn't work currently using hdmi through integrated graphics

red eye · 12 Apr 2021 at 21:27

Brandon Hamilton said:
Pretty sure I shorted my Zotac 1080ti amp extreme, the lights and fans still work etc but is no longer displaying outputs or is detected by the PC - if taken to a professional is there a good chance it can be recovered?

Good luck. I enquired about a water damaged 290 was quoted £300 repaired or not. This was from amd authorised repairer.

Brandon Hamilton · 12 Apr 2021 at 21:50

Turns out guys it was my CPU! It was no longer communicating with my pcie 16, and was causing issues all around

BS Dave · 12 Apr 2021 at 21:59

Brandon Hamilton said:
Turns out guys it was my CPU! It was no longer communicating with my pcie 16, and was causing issues all around

Yay!! Beers all round

Brandon Hamilton · 12 Apr 2021 at 22:02

Still will set me back a little but not nearly as much as a GPU in this current market

StephenJ · 13 Apr 2021 at 00:13

Brandon Hamilton said:
Turns out guys it was my CPU! It was no longer communicating with my pcie 16, and was causing issues all around

Good result , will this also cut down on repair / replacement time ?

Brandon Hamilton · 13 Apr 2021 at 08:16

Hopefully! New CPU is going in today, should solve all these little issues and I'll be back online

Robi_uk · 13 Apr 2021 at 10:12

Good luck! lots of options for buying cpu on the second hand market.