my asus gtx 670 top wont post anymore :(

[Abdo shniba]

Hi Guys

I was playing Dead Space 3 earlier and my PC got Stock and the screen froze, after I restarted the PC no image would appear and no matter what I tried nothing seemed to work, I tried to place it in the second PCI-E slot, cleared Cmos, switching to different video outputs,,,etc, finaly I decided to enable virtu mvb multi monitor and entered to windows with my iGPU "I have a 3570K" and checked with device manager and GPUz and only the intel hd 4000 graphics was available "no gtx 670" also checked the gpu it seems to work just fine the fans are spinning and the light are green just the normal, I've never had any issue with it before it was working like a charm,

is my card dead, please help me guys .

Originally Posted by Abdo shniba

Final Update May.8.2013:
I just got my shiny new GTX 680, it arrived to my country from USA yesterday, sorry for the blurry images:

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it works like a charm , I'm really happy with my RMA, thanks to asus for upgrading me from gtx 670 to gtx 680 DC II OC for free , and a big thanks to every one who participated in my thread, I really appreciate your help and effort .

[adulaamin]

You could take the card out and test it on a friends PC... That's what I would do...

[Abdo shniba]

all of my friends have a crappy PCs with generic PSUs .

[adulaamin]

Originally Posted by Abdo shniba

all of my friends have a crappy PCs with generic PSUs .

Take out your card and your PSU, bring to a friends house, and use your PSU and card on their PC.

[sneekypeet]

can you borrow a basic card to verify the slots are still functional? I mean anything, NIC, soundcard, crap VGA.

[Abdo shniba]

I'll ask one of my friends to borrow me his VGA and will see, is it possible for the card to be dead although it's fans spinning normally and the lights are green?

[sneekypeet]

yup! Unlikely, but it can happen.
Basically all the lights and fans mean is that they have power, not the PWM, core, or memory.

[Abdo shniba]

can reinstalling \ updating the bios fix the problem?

[buildzoid]

If you mean the GPU bios then no because your computer must be able to find the GPU in order to flash it's bios. The mobo it could work but is very unlikely as the card just quit working with a bios that worked before. It's most likely dead.

[jangirke]

Hi
It's worth a try.
Make a bootable USB stick with rufus (MSDDOS or FreeDOS)
then get Nvflash and a new firmware.
Save the old firmware and reflash it.
Worth a try.

[Abdo shniba]

Originally Posted by jangirke

Hi
It's worth a try.
Make a bootable USB stick with rufus (MSDDOS or FreeDOS)
then get Nvflash and a new firmware.
Save the old firmware and reflash it.
Worth a try.

how should I do that? the system doesn't recognize the GPU .

[Crap Daddy]

Don't flash your card, it has nothing to do with your problem. Try another card in your machine and subsequently try your card in another PC. I suspect a motherboard problem rather than the card suddenly dropping dead.

[Abdo shniba]

I hope it's the MoBo as its way cheaper and I can afford to buy a new one, will an old radeon hd 4670 or gt 240 be good to try?

[grunt_408]

Originally Posted by Abdo shniba

will an old radeon hd 4670 or gt 240 be good to try?

They will do fine to rule out your motherboard being the problem.

[Abdo shniba]

I called my friend, he will bring me his old HD 4670, so fingers crossed it will be the MoBo "never thought I would say this "

I tried something else while I'm waiting for my friend, I sat the gpu to PCI-E in the bios, but the pc always boot with the intel built in graphics "3570K" I tried to place the vga on the first PCI-E slot and the second, no image would appear if I connected the dvi cable to the VGA but the PC start normally with out any error, when I disconnect the cable from the VGA and then blug it in the MoBo the image shows up, although I sat the video source to PCI-E, what does this mean? it's ike the VGA isn't there any more.

[tokyoduong]

Originally Posted by Abdo shniba

I called my friend, he will bring me his old HD 4670, so fingers crossed it will be the MoBo "never thought I would say this "

I tried something else while I'm waiting for my friend, I sat the gpu to PCI-E in the bios, but the pc always boot with the intel built in graphics "3570K" I tried to place the vga on the first PCI-E slot and the second, no image would appear if I connected the dvi cable to the VGA but the PC start normally with out any error, when I disconnect the cable from the VGA and then blug it in the MoBo the image shows up, although I sat the video source to PCI-E, what does this mean? it's ike the VGA isn't there any more.

Honestly, this could be PSU, motherboard or VGA.

If your friend's video card works then you can only rule out that your motherboard works.

BTW, I had the same exact problem before and it turned out to be the motherboard PCIe.

[Crap Daddy]

I'd say BIOS corruption on you Asus mobo.

[Abdo shniba]

Originally Posted by Crap Daddy

I'd say BIOS corruption on you Asus mobo.

I hope this is the case, as I have an extra bios chip , I'll update the post as soon as I get the hd 4670.

[arnoo1]

just rma the damn thing don't waste time and energy and warranty in flashing

[Abdo shniba]

Originally Posted by arnoo1

just rma the damn thing don't waste time and energy and warranty in flashing

Asus RMA process is waste of time and energy too , don't you think .

[Abdo shniba]

I've tried my friend's hd 4670 and it worked right away, guess it's time to RMA the VGA then , thanks everyone for trying to help me, much appreciated.

[Kaynar]

Have you ever monitored your GPU's temps while gaming? Maybe your card was generally defective and had too high temps until it finally burned.

[arnoo1]

don't be honest, play stupid, i was honest once and the fuckers didn't rma it

[Abdo shniba]

Originally Posted by Kaynar

Have you ever monitored your GPU's temps while gaming? Maybe your card was generally defective and had too high temps until it finally burned.

yeas I did, using GPU-Z the temps were always between mid 40s-mid 50s,

Originally Posted by arnoo1

don't be honest, play stupid, i was honest once and the fuckers didn't rma it

I'll, thanks for the advice, just one question, will they call me? is it necessary? as I'm not in the USA "although I bought it from amazon" and I don't have a valid US number, I'll just ship it to them and will give them a friends address.

[arnoo1]

Originally Posted by Abdo shniba

yeas I did, using GPU-Z the temps were always between mid 40s-mid 50s,



I'll, thanks for the advice, just one question, will they call me? is it necessary? as I'm not in the USA "although I bought it from amazon" and I don't have a valid US number, I'll just ship it to them and will give them a friends address.

No i don't thinks so, they never called me i'm from the netherlands i think they will call u when they can offer something better or refund, and if they call play again stupid, just rma it with reason like"i was gaming and all of sudden it crashed no image after reboot, drivers uptodate no oc" and it will be fine