Well hello there,
So I’ve started having issues with my GPU recently. Yesterday I had the odd line rendering weirdly in a small indie game, then today I’ve had GPU artifacts of the space invader type showing up a few times, the odd involuntary reboot, and now I’ve had more space invaders followed by a frozen PC (the whole PC, not just the screen, I could tell by the RGB stopping its cycle) followed by multiple failed booted attempts.
I can tell from the RGB behaviour and the motherboard code that it seems to be booting properly, but none of my monitors show anything but black, I don’t even see the “Press DEL to enter BIOS” message, which usually shows up on the left monitor, even though that monitor has a white power LED as if it is receiving a non-GSYNC signal. The right monitor usually gets the login screen, however its power LED is blinking orange as if it doesn’t get a signal or is in standby. I also have a graphics tablet plugged via HDMI that gets nothing but black either.
Once in the process a few hours ago, it gave me a blue screen, unfortunately without any information, as that also seemed to freeze up and I ended up having to manually reboot it. After the first couple of times of artifacting I performed a clean reinstall of the GPU drivers, after which it behaved a little better for 2-3 hours, before going all black.
Due to the cooling setup and lack of replacement hardware I can’t test most of the components in another computer.
CPU: Intel i7-7820X
Motherboard: ASUS ROG Strix X299-E Gaming
GPU: ASUS ROG Strix 1080Ti-O11G
RAM: 4x8GB Corsair Vengeance RGB 3000MHz
Storage: Samsung m.2 970 Pro 1TB
PSU: Corsair RM850x
Cooling: Custom acrylic hardline loop on both CPU and GPU
Due to this issue happening in a low CPU/GPU intensive game first and then simply on desktop, I am pretty sure I can rule out any overheating issues. Beside the RAM (which had a memtest86 run a few weeks ago) and the PSU I probably couldn’t swap any components out either to try.
Does anyone with more clue than I have, have any ideas/suggestions on what else I could try to find out what is wrong or how to fix it, or can simply confirm that this is indeed definitely a dead GPU?
Thanks for any help in advance!
Faye