Re: GTX 690 not recognized after overheating

Yeah, no shorts found. I used Antec 750W when this thing died (same PSU is running happily with AMD FX8150 & GTX 580 now).

tnx for now, i have to wait for PSU before i continue with troubleshooting.

Re: GTX 690 not recognized after overheating

Hi

tnx for reply. I did check F1 and it's OK and the flux, that was me as well (just a quick heat up, not reflowing or reballing).

It happened just as I described - i forgot to put pads on mosfets and PLX, everything else was OK. Card worked for - how much time is needed to boot up and finish 50% of 3DMark Vantage (less than 5min) - then died (screen went black and after restart - beep bep bep bep). Tried on few different MBOs, same thing and GTX 580 works fine in that system where this one died.
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Short and simple - today I was idiot (more than usual).

Subject: Dell/nVidia 690 GTX

Story - got this beautiful piece of engineering for low price in great condition and got distracted during cleaning & changing paste ending up with overheating after 3-4 min of testing and ... it's dead Jim. Beeeeeep bip bip bip bip.

Tried to troubleshoot it (stopped at shorts testing, couldnt bare the sadness and anger), but I decided to seek for some wisdom here.

I've marked mosfets and "pex8747 ba80gbc" SLI thingy on the attached photo...

Re: New Members - please post your introductions here

Hi guys & girls

I'm in PCs since '88, been in repair business for a very long time (professionally, for 17 years), however for last 5 years I'm working in hospitality IT support so I've kept repair as a hobby. Because of my long and rich experience, my 2nd post will be rather embarrassing