Hey all so i came across my old 980ti that died around last year out of the blue and recently came across it again… and im just wondering what the steps would be to fix it, if possible, I don’t know the first thing about PCB/Soldering/Repairs but id be happy to learn to try give this old beast some life again for someone whos in need of a GPU during the shortage.
It all Happened one day while playing a game and my PC started hard crashing whilst in CS:GO and i got messages in Windows Event Manager such as “Kernel Power Failed” or something along them lines. So i thought it was a PSU error and after replacing it with a RM 750X from Corsair the GPU was fine for the next week or so till one day i was playing a game with friend and i heard this pop sound and looked over to see smoke pouring out of the GPU, so i ran and pulled it out and left it there… But this morning i decided to open it up and inspect the damage and it seems to be hardly anything and one small chip that has blown… although as i said i dont know the first bit about this stuff so i could be 100% wrong but for all i can see its only 1 chip that has burnt out and no more PCB damage.
Ill post some pics below and see if anyone here thinks its fixable at home: