MSI 750ti GAMING OC dead

[Magic_RB]

I own a 750ti, I used to use it for pci-passthrough for a windows vm, after almost 3 months of it being plugged into my pc, not doing anything, I found out that it’s braindead. The NVidia driver will bind to it, but it won’t show up in nvidia-smi, if it’s the only gpu in my system, i get no display, and nvflash cannot flash it or get the current BIOS from it. I tried the BIOS switch, that didn’t help. I got this error from nvflash when i tried to save the rom from the GPU, while it was successful with my 1060:

NVIDIA Firmware Update Utility (Version 5.414.0)
Simplified Version For OEM Only
Adapter: GeForce GTX 750 Ti   (10DE,1380,0000,0000) H:--:NRM  S:00,B:09,D:00,F:00

Identifying EEPROM...
 Command complete with error, Error code = 0x0003
Command id: 0x0000002 Command: NV_UCODE_CMD_COMMAND_EID failed
Command Status: NV_UCODE_CMD_STS_NONE
Error Code= 0x00000003: NV_UCODE_ERR_CODE_CMD_EID_RD_ERROR
  EEPROM ID process failed.

ERROR: Error: Display adapter's EEPROM ID process failed

Am i to assume it’s just a paperweight now or is there any chance of making it un-braindead?

[Shane_Haumpton]

Hi Magic,

I feel you bro since I also own 750ti oc maybe it is time to upgrade our GPU.

I found a solution here you might be interested at hand forum. com

[mutation666]

Do you have another system to try the GPU in? have you tried different pcie slots?

[Magic_RB]

Upgrading is sadly not an option, due to the pandemic and all, I myself am broke, and my have bigger things to worry about then my VM gpu

[Magic_RB]

No I don’t have another system, and yes I did, when I tried to make it my primary GPU I put it in the same slot my 1060 is now