Problems with Nvidia GTX 780 ti: "green tiles of death"

OrangeTheMaster

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Jul 16, 2016
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Hey guys, 2 days ago something started happening that has never happened before with my video card. It all started when one of my games crashed, I didn't think much of it and I stopped playing, but when I booted another game later that day, my whole system crashed. Now every time I boot my computer, a bunch of green rectangles appear on the screen after the bios logo. Sometimes I can access windows, but most of the time the screen goes black and my display stops receiving any signal. I thought it had to do with recent drivers from Nvidia, so I uninstalled them, but this didn't help. I also tried to restore my windows to a previous version with different Nvidia drivers, but this also didn't work. I'm sure it has something to do with the gpu because I removed it and the integrated graphics work fine, no problems on startup or the weird green rectangles glitch. Changing the pci express port also didn't help. Is there anything I can still try to do or is my gpu doomed? (I've bought it just 3 years ago).
Badly taken picture of the graphical glitch: http://i.imgur.com/InbwMfq.jpg
 
Solution
It's not the drivers because they appear before Windows loads. Green artifacts there are usually indicative of bad video memory, or at least a broken solder joint to the memory.

As there is nothing to lose, the latter can be repaired by reflowing in an oven, 385F for 8 minutes. Just google baking GPU for instructions on how to prepare the card.
It's not the drivers because they appear before Windows loads. Green artifacts there are usually indicative of bad video memory, or at least a broken solder joint to the memory.

As there is nothing to lose, the latter can be repaired by reflowing in an oven, 385F for 8 minutes. Just google baking GPU for instructions on how to prepare the card.
 
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OrangeTheMaster

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Jul 16, 2016
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1,510


Since there is nothing left to do I'll try this solution then. Will update the thread after I test it. Thanks for the suggestion.