GTX 980 ti burnt out 🥵 broken / no video out card from Germany repair and diagnostic process

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980 ti with one of the common problems on graphic cards. Here is shown how we deal with this problem.
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[@BurakEnez]

Name of the channel could be "Yes, We have a Picture!" 😁

[@cyberkiller83]

jajajaja excelent.

[@SubstratyPL]

When I saw this coment at the begining I said "I can`t believe it" Yes, It's working. Wonderful job

[@BurakEnez]

@@SubstratyPL sorry for the spoiler 😅

[@mymidschoollife8485]

Vunduffal is catchier ;)

[@brokenpianist2852]

But I have noise

[@garethwoodall577]

Great skills, would love some short tutorials over a playlist to get some basics on GPU diagnostics. Found my multimeter - fingers crossed!

[@nickr8747]

yeah that would be cool, keep doing these

[@feeterican]

I've been soldering for a company for 18 years as postwave/touchup and modding boards for quick fix rev changes. This was new to me and some serious education. Thanks for the vid man. Also, I'm a PC gamer, so this video hit home, thank you. I'm subbing.

[@robertwadsworth5226]

Kid, you have a real talent. I thought it was unfixable; yet you made it work! WOW!

[@Reason_over_Dogma]

Welcome back man. I'm a recent subscriber so I'm glad to see you're still making content.

[@alfyer5]

I repair main boards for work but I would never use a rotary to remove burnt layers of pcb. I think a sharp razor and a scope is the best option Also you should get a psu to inject power instead of having to plug it in and out all these times. Just inject little voltage and use some alcohol and you’ll be able to spot exactly where the short is

[@kzhein007]

I got the same card. I tried to RMA the card since I bought it on 16th of June 2016. It was supposed to have 3 year warranty but I got rejected by MSI. The RMA support told me that the warranty started when they shipped it to Newegg and not the date of purchase. That's a scummy move to pull.

[@Murlock2000]

Thats a lie. Its from the day you buy it from the shop.

[@klemenkovacic9109]

If you'd be in EU you'd be protected by the Law. Either contact NewEgg and consult with them on the matter or contact authorities responsible for buyer protection.

[@predictezz1047]

@@klemenkovacic9109 i had the same issue in netherlands with a phone

[@TengizAdamashvili]

Krasava voobshe! My heart stopped every time you used the dremel on that poor board. I can't believe how you could take off so many PCB layers and somehow soldered them back together

[@pp3v42_g3h]

It's a bit late, but you can rewire the fet drivers to the fets without the driver, just run some jumperwires to the gate and don't forget about the current monitoring. Or you could change the dubbler into same output on both phases without current balancing and forget about the sense wires :)

[@dezbor2k]

Great job and amazing knowledge about these small electronic things .. keep going on it, always when you upload an new video, i‘m watching it .. As well greetings from Germany ;)

[@CXensation]

I have succesfully repaired other types of electronic equipment, by placing a separate small homemade PCB over a burnt area. On the small PCB I built a circuit like the old one and provided the necessary connections to the main PCB. You can do the same here, by making 3 copies of a working phase on to a separate PCB.

[@charlesadkins5144]

This is one of the better videos I’ve seen about gpu repair. Down and dirty. Getting it done. I would have scrapped the card but I will think twice now lol

[@mattsmechanicalssi5833]

Time to E-Power it, and throw it on LN2! Keep Calm, And Raise V-Core!

[@sersoft_corp]

This isn't AHOC, here we are Actually Running On Stock

[@bluethumbdiy4735]

Just fixed a 980Ti with bad memory lowside mosfet and flown inductor. Works perfectly. I have two more to repair, and one of them looks like this one and I know for sure I'd be losing at least one power phase, leaving 7 available (hopefully). The other one needs all new VRAM and power phase controller. These cards aren't exactly aging well.

[@pringl3s]

Great Video. I actually thought i would be the only one, but my MSI 980TI died with a bang after little less than 4 years. Computer shut down, graphics card was hot. Tried to get it to run but sadly, on my attempt it gave me a flame and burned smell. I bet it's the same problem, maybe i will find the courage to actually try and repair it. Sad to see a €800,- graphics card to burn after 4 years

[@JediBuddhist]

Woah.! That repair was Fearless. 👏

[@Wimpelmann]

You should do this for living... i bet you could make good money with it. Keep up the good work. Greeetz from the Netherlands

[@jacquesvonromburgh9476]

Its really great to see you uploading again!!! Please keep it up! In time you will get the recognition you deserve!!!

[@anthonyjaisingh]

I found a GTX 1080 ti at the dump the other day. It has a burnt mark right at the back end. Doesn't look as serious as this one. I wish you lived in my country so I could send it to you for repairs :)

[@thatjovanovic1421]

37 likes, 0 dislikes. This is the first time that I saw video without any dislikes, wtf :D

[@Alexander_l322]

Now +200 likes 0 dislikes. Id find it hard to understand what is to dislike about this video

[@poznipracker8113]

@@Alexander_l322 Easy answer: it is somewhat pointless! Why all the effort and hassle if you can´t do anything 3D with this card in the end anyways?

[@impaler_ferhan]

What phenomenal attempt brother you really got skills on Gpus I am a gamer xD I have 2 dead cards in our desk every refused to repair beacause they don't know the problem wish I can send you those cards. Good Job btw

[@TheSohailAzeem]

My God! I never thought this fix was even possible. Eli Tech... Call sign Neo!

[@PaulHigginbothamSr]

It seems to me one could run insulated wires above the board and even connect the missing components above masking and it might look like a Frankenstein card but work well even on a stress test if one or two phases were hooked back up. It might pay to try to do it even if it looks awkward just as a test card to show people you are a wizard. Like bragging rights not necessarily economically. Looking at this much later I see that I would try to put back the doubler and disable half of it by removing it's connection. The amount of power you were applying to the board looked like 12v. I couldn't understand how the graphics chip could begin to take that. Then I saw the blurb screen display so this card will struggle on.

[@BTech2077]

Good work, great video ... I would appreciate advice - my friend has an issue with his GTX 980 Strix as it boots to desktop but it crashes (to a pure blue or black screen) a minute or two after entering a game (for example Lost Ark). We ordered a new PSU as we though it would solve the issue, because for a while he was able to use GPUTweak to lower GPU Power Target to 65%, underclock GPU and memory to lowest possible and he would be able to play games for hours. The new PSU (Corsair RM650 CP) did not solve the issue so we changed the thermal pad on the GPU VRM and repasted and it did not solve the issue, but now it got worse - even with 65% power target and underclock it would crash a minute after entering a more demanding game. There is no visible damage on the card, but an oil leak was present on the VRM and we have cleaned it, so we are now wondering if the card can be repaired by a professional electronic or should we give it up?

[@ironnokana6760]

this is first time I saw someone repaired the short gpu, nice :>

[@jeffreymorrison2208]

After watching this video i had the bright idea to buy a flir thermal camera attachment for my cell phone ... i pushed .90 volts 10 amps into 12v rail and short area got warm ... found it and dug out.

[@user-nw7qm1dk5e]

Watching your video was useful for me. Thank you.

[@amtpdb1]

As a beginner, I would have liked to see how you decided there were shorts and how you found where they are. I purchased a video card they said was broke. I plugged it in and at least there is a picture but this board is real hot!! I tried to ohm the mosfets and they seemed shorted. I removed the mosfet, caps, and , and, that acted like shorted and checked them off the board and all were good. Put everything back and now I found more areas that look shorted. How do you check out a board so that you dont go down the rabbit hole looking for shorts!!! Thanks for the videos.

[@paublusamericanus292]

my gott Eli, jeez, this was really difficult. I expect you to find that driver, so it is only two phases down. I have trouble wondering if the traces could be wired with jumpers for the other two traces. Or are some other components not there?

[@rubenschilling]

I love how you say "auf Wiedersehen" at the end

[@2ndrunraidshadowlegends631]

I have a msi gtx 970. Had water damage. Fixed all shorts. Powers up. Screen display is perfect in vga mode Artifacts after driver install. I believe the ddr chip is destroyed

[@MrThomashorst]

Probably residues under the ram chips ... try to get someone with a hot-air and experience to flush some flux under those chips.

[@2ndrunraidshadowlegends631]

@@MrThomashorst hanks for the reply. I have experience.Removed the chips. 2x faulty traces destroyed. Ram chips are expensive to the point the card is on hold to be fixed ;)

[@Ok-vw9zz]

3d printing tech how did you get water on your gpu?

[@2ndrunraidshadowlegends631]

@@Ok-vw9zz I didn't. I purchased the card from eBay as the seller said it had a capacitor knocked off. Received a few days later and opened it up. It was coke All over. Under ram chips and corroded the traces

[@PerchEagle]

That's really impressive, shorts are most the time a sign of a broken elements. I have 2 broken EVGA GPUs, I really don't know what to do with them, I don't have burnts, they just stopped working. The cause for the two was the first one GTX 770, got a case hit and stopped working, the 2nd one GTX 780 classified with similar problem but stopped working because of moving the case in the car during travelling.

[@otg-on-tech-and-gear]

Brody, you are truly great repair man! Spot on.

[@nitindalmeida1183]

I wish you had a microscope camera. :') *PATREONS* Love your Videos

[@karolsadurski1013]

Hey ....I wanted to thank u for videos u making my GPU just failed and Im trying to fix it by watching ur videos ...I hope I can fix this card

[@shadowarez1337]

Great to see you're back to repairing these GPUs.

[@GrulbGL]

wow, that is a surgeon job! dude, if you underclock/undervolt, can you use normally? stress/ gaming? i did something similar on a 770 4GB, but for temperature reasons (original fans got broken, and was using 12cm fan) and worked just great, and FPS loss was not that significant

[@Mustafay3sil]

You are a real brave man grinding PCB.😯😯😯😯

[@tommcdavid9917]

Great video! Maybe you can help me. I have a Zotac GTX 1070 Mini and the shielding is cracked on 2 of the inductors. I would like to replace all 5 of them at once just to be safe. Do you know where I can purchase R22 inductors that will fit my card? It works just fine, but I would like the peace of mind knowing they are not going to short out and ruin my card. Thanks and keep up the good work!

[@shridhar0yt0]

Eli I have a 980 strix card and a maximus 7 hero board. The issue is gpu is not detected and no display This happens only on 2nd boot in a long power off and cold boot the card recognized fine and aces the stress test without artifacts or issues. When i do a restart or wake from sleep gpu is not detected. I have thoroughly checked the gpu

[@alanhan]

Wow, I had idea VRMs and doublers still work with missing phases. I just assumed they'd either do nothing, or the voltage output would be too unstable to use.

[@GHOSTERING]

You are the god of graphic's card, this 980 Ti is handicaped now... but she's work fine

[@tranceonline]

wow! I never thought you can revive this! This is insane!

[@SidTheGeek]

This is awesome repair stuff bro! Helpful for many keep it up

[@Mai7x]

Guten Tag from Germany 😁😁😁

[@artemustyan3205]

Very nice video and skill! I have a 980ti g1 with the r172 and r174 resistors blown straight out. I have taken it apart and have picture of the board and the hole itself, it looks like it goes pretty deep but I have an untrained eye. No service center will touch it. Is there any way you could tell me if its fixable? Maybe if I send you pictures? Any response would be very appreciated.

[@frogtechtips]

good job my friend you are best

[@laframe1016]

Hi there thank you for the video very nice one of my cards I tried to put it on a different computer and I connect the power and then all of a sudden smoke came out is there any way I can fix that

[@lolYoruichifan]

That's pretty cool, I bought a Galax GTX 980Ti for parts 4 months ago now I wonder if it's repairable. I believe the card either had damage to the power delivery or the card would produce an image but would crash under load.

[@ViewTube_Emperor_of_Mankind]

Gold Edition, more like copper edition... but very nice, respect for your skills.. I got the same card but the normal version... never had an issue

[@yanabest396]

Hi, I really admire your work, especially not giving up on this GPU on your video, I would appreciate if you could shed some light on where can I find the faulth of my EVGA GTX 980 Ti, it does boot up, power is ok, but it only shows an image for a split second then goes to blackscreen. Some says it may be from VCCI or display output, some says it may be an openline from the memory chips, whichever case, I really would love to hear from you on what is possibly happening and any ideas to fix it please, thank you.

[@laitatom]

Nice work! I have that same card and it has a short in one of the power inductor coils. Those two gray boxes next to the power connector cable slots. Any specs of those components? Thx if you have time to answer!

[@WilliamVG]

Amazing work, definitely something I wouldn't attempt with my skillset, lol.. Cheers.

[@vikramjeetsingh7077]

How to contact you for repairing my machine stuff

[@mrdr9534]

@Eli Tech Damn... are You telling me that I wasted my money on my "Gold Heat Sink" :) This was a "brutal repair"... but "You got picture" very well done :) I guess I misunderstood the layout (or something else) because it looked like there was an ""OK"" driver on the "last phase" ((the one that got "blasted")). Was that driver also "dead" from the shorting, or did You choose to use it as "replacement" for some other reason ?? Any way keep up the good work. Best regards

[@martinmalonero1]

No entiendo nada de inglés pero que satisfacción me da cuando se enciende la pantalla...

[@edu.33]

yo si le entiendo todo, es increíble este tio

[@abeleski]

La bilota sefoe a la mierda

[@edu.33]

@@abeleski nice try actually lol

[@abeleski]

@@edu.33 🤣it's all I had

[@cyberkiller83]

Eli. You are amazing, i would have giving up as soon as i found a PCB short on it, is amazing that is having picture after that cancel hole!!. What do you plan to do next, are you going someone install the missing phases?

[@elitech3339]

I've talked to the guy and I already ordered driver. So we will try do up that phase ))

[@JewelfactX]

salute to you to daring sorted pcb plug on MB on PSU. bravo brother. love from bangladesh.

[@samfisher3336]

I like the timelapse sound more than music.

[@Ryan_Sauer]

Would underclocking the card make it safe to stress test? or not because the card cant recognize which phases dont have power? Even if its not its former glory there is still value in an underclocked 980ti yet not really any value in a 980ti that cant stress past idle.

[@youssefaly97]

Hey, I got a EVGA 970 exactly like the one you fixed but it shorts the 12v out, 6 ohms between 12v line and ground. No signs of damage, one broken inductor that seems to have broke from mechanical shock, its not completely broken and should still work, it's for 3.3 volts I think, it's not from the phases. Can you help please?

[@HyperActivePlayers]

Thanks for the video! I have a gtx 970 with the same issue, got scammed on ebay... I also got a gtx 1080 ti, all voltages are fine but the picture has horizontal stripes (if it's outputting anything at all). Any tips on finding out if it's a chip or vram issue? I can't really solder a chip, but I did solder vram with hot air a few times successfully.

[@Sopheris]

Stripes probably mean dead chip :< But you can try to heat it up to 200C, sometimes it works

[@Alexander_l322]

Reball gpu chip or reflow it and try :)

[@filds1]

Who is the vendor ? I think you can get replacement with some vendors even after the warranty is off

[@blosgames4492]

Normally the most advisable thing is to do reballing, but in your case if at the time of stressing the graph it does not stick then it may be a condenser.

[@TheMikrostaR]

@elitech come on bro continue the channel

[@TerryGrancho]

It´s like living without a kidney! great job...

[@crimsoncake9890]

I love this channel. I need one for rx570

[@TheMaster0071UK]

Hi great repair, I have a 980ti as well with similar fault would you take a look at it?

[@BushLieWorldDie]

I Have a 980 Ti with white and green thin horizontal lines allower the screen what can i do to fix it?

[@80sBaby925]

I have a 980ti with the similar symptoms. Its evga with a blown rs3 resistor. Would love to send it to you my guy

[@Daniel-yc3dw]

Hey man I got a dead 1080ti. Do you think you can fix it?

[@mrlauris1000]

1080ti still should have warranty

[@weeooo09]

@@mrlauris1000 could have been bought used or so

[@weeooo09]

@@mrlauris1000 different companies have different rules on second hand gpu warranties, not all that easy

[@mrlauris1000]

@@weeooo09 First of all he didn't say it is second hand. Secondly even if it is second hand and you got proof of purchase 99% you are eligible for warranty. Yes I know some manufacturers does not allow warranty transfer IF that gpu was registered in manufacturers website.

[@yanabest396]

Simply amazing..

[@dinobh81]

Hey Eli I have the EVGA GTX 980 TI SC its one of the top-notch cards till the other day wouldn't boot up when I press the power button only flashes and off, took out GPU works fine, it seems like there is a short on the 8pin PCIe on GPU, I love this GPU i would like to get the conductor replaced, and still use the card, it literary looks brand new, I got also a gtx 1070, but I want the 980 back t work, can you give me some suggestions. I live in NJ

[@MrUrangatan]

My sons GTX 980 ti went funny yesterday, computer kept blanking screen then going back on again with resolution details and appeared fine, thought it might just be loose hdmi connection at the time but his system said going into sleep / shutting down and then wouldnt turn back on again. i stripped the system down and bought a new psu hoping it might just be psu and have stripped the graphics card out and also stripped the graphics card to check for burns / pops etc and nothing obvious but if i take the graphics card out the machine turns on if i plug the graphics card in but dont connect the additional 8 and 6 pin connectors it works but as soon as i connect the 8 and 6 pin connectors the system wont put any power into the motherboard (fans dont even twitch). do you have any ideas from your experience of what this could be? was used just as standard gaming card, not over clocked etc. Thanks in advance

[@newbieloncat1]

My favorite channel. Good work, nice explanation. I think it will going big company like louis rosman who repairing apple product

[@killersberg1]

I have a Gtx 980ti from EVGA, I replaced one of the SIC789 mosfets and the Card seemed to boot again. Any load coused an instand reboot though. I removed the new mosfet again to see if that was the issue but now the card seems to be caugt in a boot loop of sorts. The led light on the card keeps flashing and the memory and vcore voltage doesn't intitialize. The voltage for the led and fan fluctuates very quickly between 4 and 12 volts averaging on around 7 volts. Ich have checked for shorts but everything seems to be fine I have never seen those symptoms and I really don't know where I should start looking. Can you help me? A hint or possible cause would really help me searching on the internet doesn't result in anything useful.

[@nafisahmed6247]

I have a Short circuited( most probably) MSI 980ti gaming X, the shunt resistor below one of the 8 pin power connector (left side) got burnt out. So i shorted them with a copper wire since I knew these shunt resistors only limits the max power draw and basically unlocks the power limit. After that same thing happened, the copper wire got burnt out. Then I tried to power the card with one 6 pin connector only and left the 8 pin side open because the shunt was getting burnt, pc turned on and gpu got power with its side led but PC kept restarting after 3-5 secs. After 3 restarts the pcie extension cable(i had it mounted vertically) caught fire. Any idea what's wrong?

[@mihaispatariu]

What settings are you using on your hot air station (temp/airflow) when removing VRM coils? Man, you make it look so easy... :)

[@sandm4n]

Insane! 🙏🙏

[@bobanthonyangeles3314]

nice job eli...keep up the good work man..

[@adamek1xd]

Hi Eli, i have a question: do you know where are the ram controlers on the cards, are then in the core or on pcb? Could you test if its possible to transplant faster gddr5(7-8ghz) to the older gpu like r9 2xx(with below 6ghz gddr5) and if it will work with those speeds?

[@TheQuentincc]

The imc is integrated on the gpu itself, you could put 8GHz chip on such card since you can overclock 6GHz chip at 8GHz on these card without problem (except having good chip that can manage the 8GHz)

[@adamek1xd]

@@TheQuentincc so you are saying: imc on older core can have problem pushing new memory chips to 8ghz? (even thou new gddr5 should have lower driver requirements in power and voltage)

[@TheQuentincc]

@@adamek1xd on old card you can have the IMC or the GDDR5 chip that can limit the overclocking and we don't really know which one limit without changing the voltage of the imc or the gddr5

[@edemonth2009]

Good job buddy, you do the work as if the gpu were yours.

[@youngsmith859]

Hey, Sorry to bother. I do have EVGA GTX 1060 6Gb memory video card, Suddenly it stop working. The card is not power on. The fan spin 1 second when I started the desktop, then stopped. Try to learn of how to fix myself, I don't have any education in electronic, Just the will to learn. Anyway, i want to know where to buy a mosfet, capacitor, or any other GPU components for the EVGA GTX 1060 6Gb memory to fix the broken GPU. Thanks.

[@1337Ox]

holy shit man you are crazy! :O amazing

[@remiavard7709]

Question, if you downclock and Down voltage, that is still dangerous to use it with 3 phases down ?

[@faunas5710]

i got the same question. so did you have the answer right now?

[@remiavard7709]

no sorry ! @@faunas5710

[@infopackrat]

Amazing repair! I wonder if you could build those other phases on a separate PCB and wire it in? Could sit on the back of the card. Worth it to save a 980 TI.

[@tonycstech]

Not possible to see where traces go under the layers without Board View

[@emptyzone8542]

i so wish that you lived in Perth Australia so i can bring you my gtx 980 ti to fix its got burned 2 resistors R172 and R174 resistors

[@sw-sat]

hi, Welcome back and thx for share good luck :)

[@randomcatontheinternet2771]

Have you ever tried upgrading your Vram chip? I wish i had some electronic knowledge to do it myself

[@GarmnCX]

Modifying the power limit in the bios to the spec of the remaining phases that should made it usable on load

[@mikegaming4924]

Hmm,,, there was some GTX 780 ti that had similar problem. It had resistor or SMD cap burned at the same spot as that GTX 980 Ti... I think GTX 980 ti and GTX 780 ti use similar PCBs. so this is the process of fixing it, remove the damaged phases and cut the traces from the PCB... I didn't buy that card because GTX 780 ti is too old card for it to be interesting... GTX 980 TI might still be worth it to fix. So if a SMD cap or resistor burns, does it damage the PCB layers also? I guess that's what you were trying to fix there.

[@the_r0cket_man]

Hey would you be interested in fixing my asus strix gtx 1070? It turns on fans spin like normal get a white light and the leds flashing orange. Getting no video coming out of it has 12v and 5v but don't see no 3.3v gpu does start to get warm when plugged in. Any suggestions or would you be interested in repair ?

[@josh-by2py]

keep it up dude! i like looking at ur vids

[@josh-by2py]

please keep posting videos

[@johanvirebrand1903]

Nice one! Glad you saved one GPU :)

[@1worldgaming18]

okay eli u know what u are doing , i might have a few 980's and a 980ti in need of assistance if u are up for a challenge , it is hard times to be a gamer in :)

[@nuwanddi86]

Hey, searched all over your channel and couldn't find a video regarding GTX970 HDMI and Display port not working issue. ive got one here and is there anyway that you can give a lil help ??

[@dipankarnaskar9666]

Outstanding

[@saskiahold1905]

Hi, congratulations for your very educational videos. Now, I do have a question that you maybe can help me with. I have an XFX RX 480 8GB. The card is recognized, it works without artifacts however as soon as I run a heavy load (e.g. a 3DMark benchmark such as TimeSpy) my computer powers off. It has worked in this computer before without any issues, the problems are relatively new. The computer has a 600W OCZ power supply, I also tested this with a BeQuiet Pure Power 400W PS, same behavior. I am using the Radeon drivers 19.2, all settings default, no overclock, monitor is 2560x1440. The problems can be reproduced in another computer, the other rig works fine with a 1060. The fans of the card are working fine, I do not see any thermal throttling, I just see a hard power off. If it was a short in a phase I would expect the PS to shut off before I even see a picture. So, I am at a loss. Do you have an idea where to look and what to look for ? Greetings from overseas and kind regards

[@blosgames4492]

Does your computer restart? If so, the most likely would be to verify the status of the chip, so it would be necessary to perform the card rework. Check if it is the motherboard. Another thing sometimes the generic sources mark a voltage announced for the moment of work they turn off immediately. Check the amperage of your source and verify if it is of quality, since this could be the problem.

[@danielsatko-]

u can still replace mosfets for stronger ones and card would work normal

[@masterpcrd]

One of my graphic card power connector is not working :-( when i plugging just one power connector says "please power down and connect the pcie power cables :-(

[@nathanmilnthorpe11]

Hi how much would you Charge to repair a Asus Strix 980ti. I'm in the uk?

[@cenewig9219]

Hi I have a amd r9 290 which has the 13th pin pcie not normal but it’s ~70 ohms instead to be 0.9-1.5