EVGA SC GTX 760 card ripped from system while it was powered on

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Hello guys! As some of you may know, I am new here, but a long time follower. I've been around long before all the drama went down. Something came about a while ago and well...now I've finally found a reason to register on this forum, I need help and as the title suggests I may be SOL.

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A few years ago my friend ripped his new GTX 760 from his rig he just built while it was on. When he told me about it I had tears in my eyes because of how much we wanted to build our systems after saving for such a long time. He ended up buying a 970 and has learned his lesson (for the love of holy overclocking, thank gosh).

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So as you know, the card was taken straight from a running system, that's something to consider. The card powers up just fine, fans spin just fine and can post just fine on all outputs. I can even boot an Arch ISO from a USB and everything seems to be working just fine. The problem lies when I try to start a more advanced environment instead of simply a terminal. I've tested this on different machines and different kinds of HW with the same result. This card was originally in a windows machine and had worked for about 2 weeks or so before the card got zapped. A Manjaro ISO is successful until I tell it to boot XFCE at this screen here. I can see the boot logo and the loading screen, but after it tries to display XFCE ... nothing... just a blank screen. This has happened on windows and other OSs as well (mainly Arch and Debian based ones :stuck_out_tongue: )

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I've heard of heating up the card in an oven, but I wanted to try that as a last resort if I can even find an extra oven I won't ever be using again... If someone has any input as to what I should do to try and revive this card it would be much appreciated.

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What kernel version of Manjaro is this? 4.10.x?

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Oven is only an option for older cards or if it's been sitting in drastic temperature changes. Would have nothing to do with it being ripped out of a working system. He probably ripped off the pins or damaged them in some way.

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I'm sorry I don't know exactly what version, but I wrote this ISO from last year to my USB >>manjaro-xfce-16.10.2-stable-x86_64.iso<<

No drastic changes, but you're probably right. I did forget to mention that I believe he said that he saw an arc so IDK how big my chances are at fixing this card.

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get a soldering iron, hot air gun, solder, flux, and a voltmeter and start learning hardware repair. this is a good place to start https://www.youtube.com/user/rossmanngroup
and since the card will boot the die isnt dead meaning that the chip will work just not under load. probably damage from the surge taking out a voltage regulator or mosfet or something. a good diagram + a voltmeter will let to figure out exactly where the damage it. a lot of parts like mosfets are literally pennies on ebay or whatever and cheap and easy to replace. easiest way is to find a dead 760 same model that can be a donor board.

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