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why do gpus randomly need reseating?

I’ve seen it a couple of times when I was doing PC repairs many years ago. Happens more often with RAM. Not actually sure why, but assume it’s something to do with corrosion on the contacts and sliding it back in scratches that off again for good contact.
 
this is a funny little find, ocuk academy video showing how to reseat a gpu to fix 'issues'
beware watching it, the sound levels are rubbish, making the presenter sound much louder than the music
 
Wulfster said:
You don’t think it’s this guy messing with you?

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maybe but, I've killed him enough times to make sure he stays dead now, except maybe not in sea of thieves, I can't play that because of my disability, I'd love to check out the easter eggs there, I'd like to see how Murray is doing too, I presume that it is set after my return to monkey island( great game btw)
 
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I only needed to once, but I think that is because I never seated it in properly in the first place.

PCIE was stuck at 1x instead of 16 :cry:
 
Threepwood said:
this is what I am confused about! I've seen it many times, where the fix was to reseat the gpu, the most recent being yesterday eve for me
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But it literally makes no sense.

If it needed "reseating" to any degree, then it would have disappeared from Device Manager (so likely there's probably an eventlog or device manager logs). Worse if it was "unseated" enough then potentially you would get electrical shorts from the pins not being fully seated.

I still think it's more likely a display cable issue (As presumably you need to disconnect them to "reseat" the GPU by removing and reinstalling it) - buy a decent certified DP or HDMI cable and I bet you'll never have the issue again
 
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it used to happen a lot back in the agp days from memory, i believe its to do with the quality of the pads on the card and the board, more recently though maybe the behavior gpus sagging in the slot causing damage to the slot and so not fully seated, hence a reseat fixes it at a guess?
 
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Threepwood said:
funny how it is the first piece of advice given whenever somone is having a vga / gpu signal problem, or if a vga debug led is on
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Probably to rule out the cause being that it was not initially inserted correctly by the user. If you have been inserting correctly then perhaps there is some environmental issue as a contributor.
 
Armageus said:
But it literally makes no sense.

If it needed "reseating" to any degree, then it would have disappeared from Device Manager (so likely there's probably an eventlog or device manager logs). Worse if it was "unseated" enough then potentially you would get electrical shorts from the pins not being fully seated.

I still think it's more likely a display cable issue (As presumably you need to disconnect them to "reseat" the GPU by removing and reinstalling it) - buy a decent certified DP or HDMI cable and I bet you'll never have the issue again
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Mine was definitely a reseating issue. I even looked and could see it was not fully seated in and it worked fine except for the bandwidth issue.

It was mad because games/benchmarks that did not need as much bandwidth worked as normal. I actually picked up the error in 3dmark as some benchmarks got full score, others a really low score.

Once I reseated the card everything worked as it should.

This was with a GTX 1080 or something as I recall.
 
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