What could be the issue for a gtx980 to not display anything and cause several beeps at reboot?

[Master]

Hello everyone hope you're doing great.
Yesterday my cousin's gtx980 suddenly died(seemingly!), kids were playing GTA, and suddenly everything froze and after a reboot there was no display.
the PC works fine without the GPU, so it's the GTX980 that's having some issues for sure.

When booting, there's the first single beep that plays when the basic stuff is good, but 7 seconds later, there's a second round of beeps with a pattern (attached the audio) and then it's silent.

I noticed the windforce logo led on the side of the GPU (it's a gigabyte g1 gaming oc version I guess) doesn't light up as before, the fans do rotate/work when we reboot the PC, but other than that nothing showsup on the monitor.

what could be the reason behind this? I want to know so when I'll talk to the repairman and ask him about the issue, Im not clueless.

audio clip: https://voca.ro/1hLNMmyxD2SC

The motherboard is an ASUS Prime Z490-P motherboard.

Thanks a lot in advance

 

[Assimilator]

what could be the reason behind this?

Yesterday my cousin's gtx980 suddenly died

Why do you bother posting a thread when you already know the answer?

 

[Master]

Why do you bother posting a thread when you already know the answer?

What is the answer?! the GPU being problematic?!
clearly this is not the case, I want to know what went wrong! what information does the beep sequence give us concerning the GPU , is it the chipset? is it the capacitors? is it the MOSFETs? is it the corrupted bios, etc I'm trying to get a clue as what could have caused this ,whether it's a simple fix or not, whether it requires a lot of work from the repair technician part. basically can I fix it myself or not.

 

[Onasi]

What’s the motherboard? The beeper codes can vary in their meaning from vendor to vendor.

 

[Master]

What’s the motherboard? The beeper codes can vary in their meaning from vendor to vendor.

Its an Asus PRIME Z490-P Motherboard I guess

 

[3x0]

what information does the beep sequence give us concerning the GPU

It doesn't provide any information. Probing the card with a multimeter by a skilled technician is necessary to diagnose 99% of the problems, beep codes and looking at the card without disassembly will not help.

 

[Onasi]

Its an Asus PRIME Z490-P Motherboard I guess

Yeah, this beep pattern is just the “GPU not present/faulty” message. This won’t help with determining what the actual reason for the failure is.

 

[Frick]

To be honest any money spent on repairs is better spent on a new GPU.

 

[Master]

It doesn't provide any information. Probing the card with a multimeter by a skilled technician is necessary to diagnose 99% of the problems, beep codes and looking at the card without disassembly will not help.

Yeah, this beep pattern is just the “GPU not present/faulty” message. This won’t help with determining what the actual reason for the failure is.

Thanks a lot, so its pretty much out of the question regarding me fixing this easily!

To be honest any money spent on repairs is better spent on a new GPU.

He was going to buy a new card but was caught off-guard, this is a decent GPU imho it'd be a waste if the problem happens to be an easy fix though!

 

[Frick]

He was going to buy a new card but was caught off-guard, this is a decent GPU imho it'd be a waste if the problem happens to be an easy fix though!

Sure, but it probably is not. There might not even be visible damage, but you'd have to take it apart to find that out. It's coming up on 10 years, these things aren't indestructible.

 

[Onasi]

It's coming up on 10 years, these things aren't indestructible.

*looks at a 6600GT AGP in his retro Pentium III rig*
I mean… debatable?

 

[ThrashZone]

Thanks a lot, so its pretty much out of the question regarding me fixing this easily!

He was going to buy a new card but was caught off-guard, this is a decent GPU imho it'd be a waste if the problem happens to be an easy fix though!

Hi,
Well this old of a card possibly it just overheated
Change thermal paste and the thermal pads to if they get damaged taking it apart.
Arctic has some good inexpensive pads and of course mx-6 paste.

 

[Frick]

*looks at a 6600GT AGP in his retro Pentium III rig*
I mean… debatable?

How many hours per day are you playing heavy games on that? It too will die.

 

[Onasi]

How many hours per day are you playing heavy games on that? It too will die.

Not a lot nowadays, obviously, but it went through a lot in its day. So did my 1070 which I abuse regularly and it’s still ticking. Not saying they CANNOT die, it was more of a joke, but to be frank, in all my years I saw only a single card straight up die with regular in-spec use, so I’d say those things are pretty robust, honestly. But if the card is dead it is dead, that’s the truth.

 

[Ferrum Master]

Probably need an oven treatment...

 

[Deleted member 237813]

980 is ancient it’s probably dying. but if a gpu dies its 97% the vram that dies not the gpu itsself.