Gtx980m last moment of life.

Hi,
i may need some help if some of you might understand this issue of my gtx980m.

For the short story, i was upgrading from r5 to a p377sm. i use an p175sm heatsink, it look close but wasnt good as i was too sleepy and stupid to not see direclty the core of gpu not touching the copper of the heatsink but i still didnt play. i notice it after many brutal shutdown of the clevo. so i correct it and it was fitting on this time. After lets say 20mn of installing driver, the clevo shutdown. i notice before shutdown windows 10 instal his 'own' nvidia driver as i wanted to do it for the last.. since this shut down, Heree the situation:

If my gtx980m is in the clevo p377sma ( windows 10 ), while i boot the laptop, it beep until shutdown itself. Beep are continue without rithms. i can be in windows, i can just be on the bios or trying to instal windows in a new HDD, it will always beep and shutdown. i also try to remove the cmos battery for 10minutes but same issue.

In my alienware 17 r5, its a 60Hz so both intel hd4600 and gtx (optimus), laptop boot, no problem in windows 8.1. i can see the gpu detected in device manager ( without nvidia driver instaled on it) GPUz or hwinfo64 detect the nvidia. But GPUz show a memory clock at 0MHz and also boost clock showed at 0MHz. and i notice too only 2223mb detected instead of a near 8Gb.
if i install a driver( i know how to mod myself) at restart, it give a Blue screen and a text saying: page fault in non pagearea .
if i remove the gpu (still driver instaled, its working. And gpu installed without driver its working too)
if i put a gtx980m working 'new' in the clevo all is fine^^

Thanks for any answer or where to ask to repair it!

 

It sounds like maybe it got burned up. If your Clevo works correctly with a different 980M and you are seeing those problems with the GPU installed in the Alienware that causes problems on the Clevo, I think that confirms there is an issue with that video card. Sorry that happened, bro. That is really sad. I do not know where or if you can get it repaired. Maybe check with @Khenglish at Tech Inferno and see if he has any ideas. He is a real wizard at MXM GPU hardware modding and if anyone knows it would likely be this gentleman.

 

Yes it is working with another 980m. so it seem burned but the funny parts is how is it possible still be detected^^
i try to contact back the seller but i think since he understand that my gpu has burned, well no answer back at all..i had the gpu for a short 7months.
i'm going to contact Khenglish, Thanks for this information

 

So now, it's not detected anymore in bios. Need to find where i can make it repair.

 

If I were the seller you would not be getting any help from me. It's not his fault, plus you're 7 months into ownership. Did it have a 1 year warranty? This kind of user-induced damage would not typically be covered under a warranty. It might be covered as "accidental damage" if you have such a warranty. If the damage is not too bad, Khenglish might be able to fix it.

 

The gpu is not anymore detected in bios. i will ship it to a company who repair gpu.
No only 3months, upgrademonkey purpose me to fix it at my cost but since i agree for that, no reply from them :s i will wait to be back in europe to fix it as idk any companies in usa or canada who can try to fix an gpu (also in a short time as i'm here just for a few weeks.)
Khenglish answer to my thread on techinferno but no other news since.

 

If I am not mistaken @Khenglish is in New York state.

 

Does he do any fixing, like professional reflow and resoldering and replacement of GPU's and such ?


Darcoder's issue is tragedy. But if we find help for him, I am almost certain the information would be valuable to everyone.

 

I'm not sure what his capacities are, but anyone that can take a GPU core from a desktop GPU and move it to the PCB of an MXM GPU and have it work is pretty talented. I wish I knew how to do that.

 

thats not possible. They'r e different sizes physically even when the technology or lithography is the same. Who says they did that ?

 

He actually demonstrated it in some posts over at T|I and it was with older ATI/AMD GPUs. Not something anyone would want to have in today's world, but something he was tinkering with to see what he could get away with.

 

seriously ? afaik, what i stated was accurate. BUT** I admit it was clearly of nVidia. I now wonder if AMD is different. (Of if it is even possible with nvidia..)

 

I have no idea, but nonetheless, that's pretty cool and impressive that he pulled it off on some oldy-moldy ATI MXM cards. That's why I think if anyone might be able to fix that messed up GPU @Khenglish might be up to the task.

 

i dont stay enaugh time here in canada to ask khenglish if he can help me. As the sellor don't want to take my gpu to fix it at my cost, my last solution will be tfixrepairs from london.
I hope they can repair my mxm otherwize no sli for my system.