Re: Gigabyte Gtx 970 not detected

Thanks both for the replies, I'll have a crack and see what I can work out

Re: Gigabyte Gtx 970 not detected

Hey thank you for the reply, and yes absolutely no chance of getting a reading off them, they all look to be present and correct c816 doesn't have a capacitor, but it looks like it never did.

I have looked at some voltages and resistances and got some values but not entirely sure what would be right and what wouldn't be good or indicative of damage....

Re: Gigabyte Gtx 970 not detected

also there is no manual for the motherboard with which to RTFM

Re: Gigabyte Gtx 970 not detected

definitely a chance of putting the riser in backwards, stupidly easy to do, can't remember clearly as I said. I'm not getting any readings on the tiny little capacitors, so most likely need an ESR tester rather than multimeter for those I guess. I'll do some reading...

Thanks for the link to the dead core video that's helpful, and quite possible if I did indeed connect it backwards. What may have happened is that the particular motherboard I was plugging it into is a btc-t37 a mining motherboard, which has 8 pcie slots really close...

Re: Gigabyte Gtx 970 not detected

Thank you for the replies all, I shall investigate and feedback

Re: Gigabyte Gtx 970 not detected

oh yeah definitely pilot error I think is the biggest reason it doesn't work any more, dunno fuse isn't blown on the board, so who knows.

Hello. So I think I damaged this board when I was attempting to use it with a riser - my memory of it is not great - the lesson I think is to not fiddle with such things after having the final vaccine jab.

So now the fan spins, but it is not detected in windows at all. There are no burn marks on any of the IC's, having checked with a microscope. The only thing I did see was the look of grimy greasy stuff near one of the big capacitors, also one of the small caps is dented.

So I would love some guidance on confirming the caps are bad (currently have a multimeter),...

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Hello all, first post intro, I'm Kieran, I'm looking to fix an old GPU currently, though now I have discovered this forum, it may well provide some invaluable knowledge. I've done some SMD soldering somewhat successfully. Cheers all