Hi All,
I've got a gigabyte 7970 ghz edition card that I fear i've been an idiot and turned into a brick.
Basically, I've been running msi afterburner for some time and have the overclocking settings set up nice, then last week decided that I wanted to make the card quieter for non gaming use... so I monitored the GPU temp and reduced the fan speed down. I can't remember what fan speed setting I settled for but the temp remained the same and the noise was significantly lower (but still audible).
Anyhoo, things worked great until I decided to load up a game and forgot to switch profiles to auto fan speed.... doh... I then left the game running for around an hour whilst away from the computer. When I got back my windows 8 system had rebooted and was now running on the Intel mobo gpu... btw i've got a p8z77 pro (http://www.asus.com/uk/Motherboards/P8Z77V_PRO/). I checked device manager and there was no 7970 listed. After a full power off and power on I managed to get some output from the 7970 but it would sometimes make it into windows and then hang after 3-5 minutes and other times hang on boot after the windows 8 logo goes to black screen. I tried system restore, removing my 7970 drivers, removing afterburner.... still no luck. The times is does make it into windows, there are no artifacts on screen that would suggest memory or gpu issues (I would expect this?) but the screen literally just freezes and but can still move the mouse around. No keyboard response and can't ctrl-alt-del. I've done numerous reboots and short of rebuilding my system I *think* i've done what I can....
Currently my 7970 is boxed and i'm booting successfully off my Intel HD 4000
Any gurus on this topic to put my mind to rest one way or the other?? I've heard about reflowing for nvidia cards to fix some issues, but not sure of that's applicable here? Or should I try a rebuild?
Cheers for any advice, i'm really pissed at myself atm lol
S
I've got a gigabyte 7970 ghz edition card that I fear i've been an idiot and turned into a brick.
Basically, I've been running msi afterburner for some time and have the overclocking settings set up nice, then last week decided that I wanted to make the card quieter for non gaming use... so I monitored the GPU temp and reduced the fan speed down. I can't remember what fan speed setting I settled for but the temp remained the same and the noise was significantly lower (but still audible).
Anyhoo, things worked great until I decided to load up a game and forgot to switch profiles to auto fan speed.... doh... I then left the game running for around an hour whilst away from the computer. When I got back my windows 8 system had rebooted and was now running on the Intel mobo gpu... btw i've got a p8z77 pro (http://www.asus.com/uk/Motherboards/P8Z77V_PRO/). I checked device manager and there was no 7970 listed. After a full power off and power on I managed to get some output from the 7970 but it would sometimes make it into windows and then hang after 3-5 minutes and other times hang on boot after the windows 8 logo goes to black screen. I tried system restore, removing my 7970 drivers, removing afterburner.... still no luck. The times is does make it into windows, there are no artifacts on screen that would suggest memory or gpu issues (I would expect this?) but the screen literally just freezes and but can still move the mouse around. No keyboard response and can't ctrl-alt-del. I've done numerous reboots and short of rebuilding my system I *think* i've done what I can....
Currently my 7970 is boxed and i'm booting successfully off my Intel HD 4000
Any gurus on this topic to put my mind to rest one way or the other?? I've heard about reflowing for nvidia cards to fix some issues, but not sure of that's applicable here? Or should I try a rebuild?
Cheers for any advice, i'm really pissed at myself atm lol
S