Is this the end of my 7970?

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NoobyOllie

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I think its RIP my 7970, had it for 6months and because I bought an RMA 7970 apparently the warranty isnt valid (thanks XFX!). Assuming that the problem was the GPU I gave it to a friend to test on his rig, (not sure that it was the GPU after not being able to boot my PC)

http://imgur.com/7TjZKsv


What...How is this even possible! With no chance of getting a RMA off XFX i'm looking for advice, is this problem fixable? What should I do with my GPU? Can I try and fix/Salvage it? I know people sell "broken" ones online... Thanks guys
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EDIT: Come to think of it he has a GTX 970... Is this the reason no VRAM is detected? On his rig his PC boots but on mine it doesnt...He cant download drivers due to no internet:S
 
First of all, it's not XFXs fault you bought an RMA'd graphics card. A guy I know managed to RMA the HD7870 he had bought a year ago or so. Secondly, you can't possibly know what's the issue if the drivers for the card aren't installed. Your card most probably is dead though. And that doesn't look like an issue where you can "bake it"
 
Thelosouvlakia said:
First of all, it's not XFXs fault you bought an RMA'd graphics card. A guy I know managed to RMA the HD7870 he had bought a year ago or so. Secondly, you can't possibly know what's the issue if the drivers for the card aren't installed. Your card most probably is dead though. And that doesn't look like an issue where you can "bake it"
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Ouch... harsch man... that would've felt if it were towards me... damn!
 
Chrazey said:
Ouch... harsch man... that would've felt if it were towards me... damn!
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It's not XFX's fault I bought a RMA'd card, I know what I bought, I also bought a 2 year warranty, which apparently doesn't cover RMA cards...

So install drivers, but most likely boned.:(
 
im missing something here..
like a totall explanation of what happend leading up to it and then the symptoms that make you say your card is dead, and then possibly what was going on when and b4 the pc would not boot (bleep error messages and so on).
but a 0Mb report seems pretty strange.

Have you tried to flash the things bios recently?
 
You literally skipped describing the issue at hand. Symptoms man, Symptoms!

Did your PC stop booting and you decided the GPU was at fault or??
 
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Ghosthud1 said:
You literally skipped describing the issue at hand. Symptoms man, Symptoms!

Did your PC stop booting and you decided the GPU was at fault or??
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PC was running slow, had to reboot, and then i couldnt boot from there...Windows said a recent software/hardware change is at fault and I should use the recovery tool (which did nothing)... decided to just format my HDD, after this point I had troubles installing windows (saying something was corrupt)...

Finally after getting Windows on a boot drive it installed but wouldn't get past the Starting Windows Logo

Deciding it was a GPU fault I gave it to my friend (who runs a GTX 970) and he said that his computer boots but 0mb of memory is detected.

He didn't uninstall his Nvidia drivers but he did flash his BIOS. Is this why 0mb is detected? Is this truely the end of my 7970?
 
Those XFX cards are well known to have various issues with build quality. The memory could be fried but my suggestion is to completely wipe the drivers (driver display uninstaller) and try again. Honestly though, I think your hard drive could have issues.
 
barnsley said:
Those XFX cards are well known to have various issues with build quality. The memory could be fried but my suggestion is to completely wipe the drivers (driver display uninstaller) and try again. Honestly though, I think your hard drive could have issues.
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+1 this. stop panicking and start fault finding.
 
wait so this is a folow up to the "new build failling on me" thread ?
i wish you would have just posted in there..
we did reccomend a hard disk replacment as a 1st step...

To quickly address the 0MB show issue. if you are using Gpuz there was a bug in atleast one version of gpuz that would report the ram as 0MB in windows 8-8.1

So please just try a spare or new hard disk then install the drivers and see how that goes.

I would like to know what made you suspect that the gpu was to blame, when symptoms pointed to failing hdd or psu.
In my mind there must be something you are not telling us for you to believe the gpu was the issue.
 
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You do need to chill out by the sounds of things and start listening Ollie - people will stop helping otherwise.
 
tinytomlogan said:
Considering you live so close to me this does make me lol



Also ^^^hes posting from school right now :D
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Look innopropriate, WE HAVE FREE TIME IN COLLEGE!


Yeah guys thanks for the help, getting a WD 1TB drive this weekend so i'll post back here, I guess I just freaked out thinking it was my GPU because I feel like I forced the PCI-E cables in when I shut my case.

Honestly from visual inspection the GPU looks fine. Nothing has changed since I got it and that was an old WD Cavier I owned, thinking about it things started to run slow and Windows had trouble installing/booting so i'll post back when I get the new HDD :D
 
The best thing to do is eliminate the possibility of hardware failure.

When a computer fails to boot I always check the easy things first like the bios/cmos as boot failures generally start at the motherboard. Then I strip the computer to It's minimum running capacity, removing all but 1 ram stick and using the internal GPU. Then when the system is finally booting start adding parts after every restart. A good amount of hard drive testing bootable usb tools are out their.

When something cocks up, just chill out and start from the very beginning as thats half the fun of owning these machines :)
 
Ghosthud1 said:
The best thing to do is eliminate the possibility of hardware failure.

When a computer fails to boot I always check the easy things first like the bios/cmos as boot failures generally start at the motherboard. Then I strip the computer to It's minimum running capacity, removing all but 1 ram stick and using the internal GPU. Then when the system is finally booting start adding parts after every restart. A good amount of hard drive testing bootable usb tools are out their.

When something cocks up, just chill out and start from the very beginning as thats half the fun of owning these machines :)
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Motherboard doesnt have onboard graphics, my other HDD is too old to be plugged into motherboard. Couldn't boot to desktop to even run these things and after I restarted the PC I couldn't do anything because I formatted it thinking that was the problem.

We'll see Sunday when I get a new HDD :D
 
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