Power Outage- GPU Fried?

[uacole]

I had a power outage last night and my Asus 1080 ti is no longer working. My computer was plugged into a belkin surge protector.The monitor told me no input detected. SO, I put another graphics card into my comp and it worked. Is it possible for only the gpu to be fried in a power outage? Is there any way to get the gpu working again or it?

Here is the kicker I watercooled the GPU so I feel my warranty is void with asus. I fear belkin, who wants me to send them my surge protector, is going to tell me the surge protector worked as intended. Any advise would be appreciated.

Also in light of this I bought a ups which I should have bought a long time ago...

 

[Dicehunter]

I've had plenty of power outages, Never friend a GPU though, Can you test the GPU in a different PCI-E slot or even a separate rig ?

 

[uacole]

I can test a different pcie slot and will do that now. as far as a different rig it would require a tear down of my loop which will have to happen at some point. I think I am going to buy a pcie extension to test in a different rig.

 

[uacole]

holy crap the different pcie slot worked! what does that mean?

 

[Dicehunter]

holy crap the different pcie slot worked! what does that mean?

Well if a different GPU works in the slot you had your 1080 Ti in but the 1080 Ti only works in a lower slot I'm not too sure.

To be on the safe side you should reset your bios, Try the 1080 Ti back in the original slot and see if that works.

 

[uacole]

the original slot works now too. this is awesome!!!

 

[Dicehunter]

the original slot works now too. this is awesome!!!

Cool, When in doubt, Bios reset ^_^

 

[AlienALX]

I've had power outages damage things, but only in the USA. Power going out over there was extremely common, due to their insistence of putting power cables on poles. Either some one would crash into one drunk or what not or the weather would have them down. And there was usually a surge when it came back on and no surge protector on earth could protect computer equipment. I ended up using a UPS, which switched to backup and gave me about 30 mins of up time to finish any work I was doing.

 

[dugdiamond]

I cannot understand how a power outage could damage any electrical appliance.

i mean... from source... through a lanson fuse on your meter, through your junction/fuse box (with trips), through the fuse in your plug, through the PSU and then to your GPU.

c'mon... seriously!!!!

 

[NeverBackDown]

I cannot understand how a power outage could damage any electrical appliance.

i mean... from source... through a lanson fuse on your meter, through your junction/fuse box (with trips), through the fuse in your plug, through the PSU and then to your GPU.

c'mon... seriously!!!!

It's possible. I've had the power strip that my PC is connected to pop when a electrical spike came through. It didn't cause any damage as the PC was off but it did pop it. Though that was an extreme case when half my city went down electrically. So while possible I don't think a simple small outage would do any harm.

 

[AlienALX]

I cannot understand how a power outage could damage any electrical appliance.

i mean... from source... through a lanson fuse on your meter, through your junction/fuse box (with trips), through the fuse in your plug, through the PSU and then to your GPU.

c'mon... seriously!!!!

Then you have obviously never lived in rural USA.

What about when some guy crashes into a pole shorting both wires together? You're not thinking about worst case scenarios. When you have everything to extremes like they do (especially weather) anything can happen.

My mother in law had a freak lightning bolt hit her TV (through the window !) Which fried her TV and VCR.

 

[hmmblah]

I've had power outages damage things, but only in the USA. Power going out over there was extremely common, due to their insistence of putting power cables on poles. Either some one would crash into one drunk or what not or the weather would have them down. And there was usually a surge when it came back on and no surge protector on earth could protect computer equipment. I ended up using a UPS, which switched to backup and gave me about 30 mins of up time to finish any work I was doing.

Then you have obviously never lived in rural USA.

What about when some guy crashes into a pole shorting both wires together? You're not thinking about worst case scenarios. When you have everything to extremes like they do (especially weather) anything can happen.

My mother in law had a freak lightning bolt hit her TV (through the window !) Which fried her TV and VCR.

I guess it depends where you live because it's not common for the power to be out where I'm at. There are some areas of the country with very poor infrastructure, sure, but not everywhere is like that. It's a big country after all. There are no poles in my neighborhood, everything is buried, but in older sections of town and where we need to cross large distances there are poles. It wouldn't be economical at all to bury all electric lines, we're simply too big and sparse in between population centers. We don't seem to have many pole seeking drunks either, but when it does happen the poles usually win.

 

[reactor_au]

I had a power outage last night and my Asus 1080 ti is no longer working. My computer was plugged into a belkin surge protector.The monitor told me no input detected. SO, I put another graphics card into my comp and it worked. Is it possible for only the gpu to be fried in a power outage? Is there any way to get the gpu working again or it?

Here is the kicker I watercooled the GPU so I feel my warranty is void with asus. I fear belkin, who wants me to send them my surge protector, is going to tell me the surge protector worked as intended. Any advise would be appreciated.

Also in light of this I bought a ups which I should have bought a long time ago...

Hopefully you bought a chubby online ups and not a cheap fall over one. The former always supplies power from the battery while the latter switches to battery only when the feed drops below a set limit. I could never justify the cost of a proper good ups so never bothered, house hold insurance was sufficient.

At least your 1080ti is still ok, I've had similar ghost in the machine experiences in the past solved by unplugging for a few minutes, not sure if it's a POST sort of check or a power protection feature than needs to be cleared fully.