Hey guys,
so my ASUS ROG Strix GTX 1080 Ti just died.. I opened it up and found what I'm guessing is some blown fuses… Is there any way to replace these/find out why they blew up in the first place? Soldering would not be a problem for me.
Any advice would be helpful!
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Those components failing is generally secondary to the actual fault that has occurred elsewhere. So, you need to identify the cause of the primary fault, then everything else that fault has damaged. It’s possible for the burnt bit to have burnt through multiple traces on the board, so you might have to also strip multiple layers of traces back to rebuild them.
This is beyond the scope of things Reddit can tell you how to do, or things you can Google instructions for. If you don’t know how to go about this, you’d have to find a pro who fixes these things, but for such an ancient GPU, they’ll likely charge far more than it’s worth.
Is it fixable? Yes. If you got the time, money and research skills + donor board, you can, but giving it to somebody else to fix, I wouldent.
Its an 8 yo card, let it rest, but if you need a replacement, you can get better ones cheaper, new or second hand
Knowing how to solder and soldering on a gpu are 2 different things.
If you really love the card and absolutely want it back working, send it to Northridgefix for example.
Soldering vs GPU repair is like applying bandaid and surgery, it’s very hard because of multilayer pcb.
Rip the greatest card ever made.
Everything is fixable, you just have to askburself is it worth the hastle
Yeah, necromancy.
I dunno.
You haven’t just blown out the shunt and what looks like an SMD capacitor. They blew out because they were overloaded by an upstream failure.
Maybe a PWM phase got stuck on. Maybe a MOSFET failed open. You don’t know, and finding out would be both very expensive and have little chance of pointing you to a practical repair.
Those are resistors and capacitors. They blew up because there was a short somewhere else that sent too much power to this area.
In short, not fixable. It’s like trying to fix a blown engine, it technically can be done, but it’s very much not worth it.
Asus? They are very helpful in these situations. They are on reddit too
This is likely easily fixable. In fact, you’ve captured the root cause of the problem in your first picture. The slagged component is an SMD capacitor. They tend to spontaneously fail and short circuit, resulting in a massive surge of current and heat.
Remove the solder blob and remnants of the slagged component. Remove the copper plastered onto the capacitor to the right of the PQU1 DRMOS. Make sure the PCB is not carbonised. If it is, dig out the carbonised layers (this is likely the hardest part of the repair – it may be a no fix if the burn goes too deep). After that, reconnect the blown PCB trace with a wire. Go from the remaining SMD capacitor to the remaining section of the copper plane.
Then find and replace blown fuses (TBH, it might not even have a fuse considering that it passed enough current to vaporise a thick copper power plane).
Assuming you have the soldering tools already, this shouldn’t cost you more than $20 worth of parts (most of the cost would be shipping costs!)
r/pcmasterrace sub is not a technically oriented sub so you will have a lot of people telling you it’s not worth it or it’s not possible. If you don’t believe me that this is doable, you should make a post to r/GPUrepair and have the repair specialists there give you their analysis.
Why the downvotes? I’m giving OP my analysis as somebody who has repaired multiple GPUs before. If you have a problem with my response, reply and let’s have a discussion.
It is fixable 50% depending how deep is that burn. Take it to a person who knows what they are doing.
Long Story: yeah it’s possible to fix in the same way that it’s possible to fix the Titanic
Short Story: nah yeah, you’re going to have to buy a new card
Theres a good chance ur GPU core is dead
Maybe send it to northwestrepair on youtube? He knows his stuff with repairing GPUs
Cost of repair would be cost of new or used GPU equivalent or better today, that’s paying somone to fix it or buying materials to fix yourself for just ONE time.
Yes, you can buy a new card now.
burry it and do voodoo magic
The short answer is no.
The long answer is yes, but it’ll never be worth it.
It is fixable. But if you don’t have the experience or equipment to do it. It wont be worthed.
Plus. This is a sign that something is wrong elsewhere on the GPU. So you would need to troubleshoot that too.
In the end. It is probably cheaper to get another GPU.
Yes. Buy a new one.
Watch some of Buildzoids GPU necromancy videos if you want to know what you’re getting yourself into.
Let her rest.
If it is fixable, yeah for sure fix it.
But letting the champion rest is also an honorable option.
Except for the wrecked shunt I can see signs of other shunt mods. Wtf did you do man?!
I assume it would be more expensive than a new card. There’s a whole lot of SMDs that died, and as noted that might not even be the actual cause. And also there’s a question if contact pads on the PCB are fine.
yes, but as others have said, itll not be worth it financially. you could get a display stand for it to honor its memory o7