artifacts 1060

[brother_frost]

Sup guys
Just bought used ASUS GTX 1060 6GB
I was dumb enough to didnt check the card before bying, cuz the seller lives in my town and he sweared the card is ok and never was under heavy usage, and we both were not aviable to test at that moment

And what I got here when I came home:

1) Artifacts all over the screen even in VGA mode/safe mode (pic)
2) Code 43 in videoadapter settings
3) Strange BIOS code (pic)
4) Driver date is always Sep 26 2019 even with drivers uninstalled (not sure is this a problem but strange)
4) NVIDIA Control panel fails to launch ("stopped working")

ofc just reinstalling drivers didnt helped me
my specs:
GA-970A-UD3
FX-8320
16gb RAM
750W Antec power supply
Win7x64

The question is, is this card literally dead, or there may be some resolvable problems behind?
Thanks in advance!

 

[FreedomEclipse]

Need pictures of the card - bare PCB with everything exposed. make sure you get the white stickers with the cards part number on it as well.

 

[MrPotatoHead]

bad vram or a modded bios, GPU-Z points to the latter though it could be a dead card also, upload your vbios via GPU-Z and post the link here

 

[oobymach]

the artifacting is from vram, either bad bios where someone set ram speed too high or bad ram, if you can try a program like msi afterburner and set your ram speed to -502 or the absolute minimum and apply and see if that resolves it (you could also try dropping the core clock by 100mhz or so), if it does you'll need a new bios with the original clocks for a permanent fix.

 

[brother_frost]

link to the BIOS:

Asus GTX 1060 VBIOS

0 MB GDDR5, 1506 MHz GPU, 2002 MHz Memory

www.techpowerup.com

Pics with PCB attached
Tell me if flashie messed it up

the artifacting is from vram, either bad bios where someone set ram speed too high or bad ram, if you can try a program like msi afterburner and set your ram speed to -502 or the absolute minimum and apply and see if that resolves it (you could also try dropping the core clock by 100mhz or so), if it does you'll need a new bios with the original clocks for a permanent fix.

Afterburner cant detect the card

 

[eidairaman1]

link to the BIOS:

Asus GTX 1060 VBIOS

0 MB GDDR5, 1506 MHz GPU, 2002 MHz Memory

www.techpowerup.com

Pics with PCB attached
Tell me if flashie messed it up


Afterburner cant detect the card

Definitely a bad bios, says 0MB on it, time to find the stock 1

Can we get a pic of the front of the card, namely a ram chip on it. Need to make 100% sure it is a certain ram brand

 

[potato580+]

link to the BIOS:

Asus GTX 1060 VBIOS

0 MB GDDR5, 1506 MHz GPU, 2002 MHz Memory

www.techpowerup.com

Pics with PCB attached
Tell me if flashie messed it up


Afterburner cant detect the card

the picture above ressemble to this one, hope yours real asus, based on inside board yours is defintly asus i believe

got so many like this on my country, usually they targeting wellknown brand and make a psyhicaly clone of it, it could be vary, some even go aggrresive by replacing the gpu case from original retail brand, but you can easly spot em becouse they tend to be unreasonable cheap, $20-40$ (even include 1years replace warranty?)for 3gb/6gb, justve to said, cheap stuff come within consequence, prepare yourself before pay for it

 

[brother_frost]

Ram chip:
SK hynix H5GQ8BH24MJR R4C 747A

Is this photo acceptable ? I don't really want to detach the cooling system lol

Should i try to reflash the bios?