MSI R9 280 Gaming Dead :/ *FIXED* *BAKED* So today I was playing fifa 17 and I suddenly had a grey screen, rebooted and bam no video, tested cpu video = fine Tested the 280 in another machine and the same things dead as a dodo, fans spin but no display I guess 3 yrs is all I will get out of it lol bad times :bang:
Just wait a little bit and you'll be able to snap up a RX 4x0/5x0 for cheap. With prices of Ethereum continuing to crash, and difficulty ramping up, used GPUs are now starting to appear on the second-hand market. https://hothardware.com/news/coindash-ico-hacked-ethereum-price-plummets Prices are still kind of high but will go down as more GPUs flood the market - in about two week's time, it should be golden.
Interesting, I did a bit of googling on baking the GPU so all in all no loss and it's worth a shot at least Just stripped the card down and wow as a smoker i regularly clean the dust from the PC and fans ect, but never took the GPU apart, it is sticky and also has some residue of some sorts on there and lots of dust, MSI's thermal compound is all around the edge of the chip, the chip itself looks like a wet window Any way I have some Arctic Silver 5 upstairs Now for the bake, wish me luck lol Report back later
Arctic Silver 5 is not ideal for a GPU. The paste is too thin for GPU type mounts. I really wish AS5 would go away, there are far better TIMs out there, and it's old tech.
Well it only bl**dy worked Thanks a lot guys, no idea how long it may work for but I have time to save pennies for an upgrade. I did 10 mins at 200c :thumbup: @Chasity The paste that was on before was not even touching the chip really so anything is better than that. Idle's 2-3c lower right now
If it stops working you can bake it again, maybe for more minutes. Update the topic if that happens. Btw, glad to see it worked. Tahiti is immortal You can even mod vram timings to get and extra 7% boost if you have not already done so. Here my result at 1135/1615. http://www.3dmark.com/fs/13148460
Will do mate, played a few games and all seems good I woke up this morning feeling glum over the gaming situation, then found the bake reply, googled it and it's worked could not be happier hehe
My r9 390x just did the same. No output from hdmi, dvi or dp. Tonight I gonna bake the card. Fingers crossed.
UPDATE I saved the card, but I did a really stupid mistake: I left these piece of $hit plugged into dp and hdmi...I was tired and didn't notice them. Now ports are ****ed up. At least I use DVI, but if I plan to use DP in the future I'll need to replace and resolder the port
Black plugs, that's why i didn't notice them. I was watching GoT while disassembling the card. :bang: Now i don't know where to find the right dp and hdmi sockets to solder. Seems like they are "upside down" on this cards. If you find them somewhere on ebay let me know, I can't find them
My card is still fine, runs like it is supposed to you wouldn't even know the card was baked, at first i was sceptical about putting load on the thing but it's 100% fine, games for hours and doesn't break a sweat
LOL I just noticed you baked your card 4 times? well played man, you should call yourself Mr video card Resurrection nice nice
