Is my 7970m dead?

Hey everyone! I had a BSOD tonight playing Pillars of Eternity, after which my computer will not boot past the windows logo where it freezes. I've tried doing rollbacks/switching hard drives to no avail. I was able to get the comp working again after booting in safe mode and disabling the 7970. I did notice that the fans for the GPU do turn on when the windows logo freezes, not sure if that means anything. Thanks for the help, hopefully this thing isn't toast cuz there's no way I can replace it =-(.

 

So when you disable the 7970M in the device manager in Safe Mode, you still can't boot into windows?

Try to use a driver cleaner software and run it in safe mode. I am not sure if the fans turning on mean that the card is dead.

 

When I disable the 7970 in device manager the computer has no issues booting up. I have to guess it's toast at this point because I've tried several reinstalls.........the farthest I got was it booted to log-in screen before flashing to a black screen.

 

Yup its probably gone.. Another 7970M that beats the dust...

 

Did you try "baking" it?

 

^ Just finished making my laptop dinner. Meal was prepared @ 390F for 6min. Seems to be working alright for the moment, but I know this is only a temporary solution.

I guess on the brightside I don't have to wait long for those Black Friday deals, lol.

 

That's nice you made your card working! As its lifespan after baking is totally unpredictable, best of luck with it

PS We should make a club of P150EM owners with dead 7970m's, honestly (me being among them, although that is going to change soon ). Quite some threads from August till now.

 

Haha, glad it worked.

 

Sounds nearly identical to how my 7970m went out about a month ago. Starting to wonder, with so many people having their 7970ms die at the same time, am I being unreasonable when I say AMD's build quality has much to be desired? Or is three years par for the course on a gaming laptop video card? My 7950gtx go in my old d900k lasted 5 years before it went.

 

Kinda off topic, but why am I seeing posts like this every once a while? Are AMD GPUs that unreliable?

 

I have seen a TON of dead 7970m threads. Perhaps they are just running hot? Either way, this is why I always underclock my CPU and GPUs, I don't want them randomly dying on me.

 

well CPUs are pretty tough, no worries there concerning overclocking. as for gpus, theyre pretty finicky and based on experience pretty much always the first component to go out. my 7970M also just lasted a bit more than 2 years learned from that and got myself a 4yr warranty, now i dont really care if my gpu goes up in smoke