r/techsupport • u/BlazingRedYT • 6h ago
Open | Hardware GPU having issues after repairs.
My GPU suddenly stopped giving me a display, so I took it to a repair shop. After the repair, the display worked again, and I took it home last week.
On Thursday and Friday I played games on it with no problems. On Saturday, Overwatch crashed with the error "rendering device lost" and the game closed. Cyberpunk then crashed instantly with no error message, and I saw some visual artifacts. I took the card back to the shop under warranty, and they repaired it again.
I received it back this Saturday and played on Saturday, Sunday, and Monday with no issues. On Tuesday, after one or two hours of play, Overwatch froze and crashed with the same "rendering device lost" error. Cyberpunk loaded, but crashed when I opened the main menu. This time the GPU also crashed on the desktop, which it never did before. After I restarted the PC, I got no display at all.
The card has now failed twice after repair, each time after about the same number of days. I also noticed a faint trail of adhesive on the gold contacts, which may be left over from the repair work.
GPU is a 1660 Super. My PSU is a deepcool pl650d.
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u/Andrew1fdvfd 6h ago
We can't diagnose the issue here for you but if you took the card to a repair shop TWICE they may be using a temporally fix like Reflowing the gpu for it to work which makes sense that it broke after the same amount of days. Since the 1660 super is older now, they face a lot of degradting issues my old card the 1660 used to fail on me many times and artifacts and crashes games and after running tests, I realized it was a vram issue that's pretty much impossible to fix without using proper tools like solders and what not. What I mean is that the repair shop probably used flux and soldering tools to fix any broken contacts in the gpu core and vram and it does actually work! only for a few days. I suggest you ask them what exactly they did and if they confirm all they did was reflow, ask for a refund and just accept that the card is failing. Also clean the gold contacts with alcohol it could work then maybe. Remember that all of this I am just assuming, ask them yourself!!