- Apr 6, 2017
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As I said in the title the GPU in question is a MSI 1060 ARMOR 3GB, with physical damage to the back of the PCB, from what I was able to see with a magnifying lens the damage is very localized, only that one component is damaged.
*apologies for the 90* rotation of the last photo*
Upon booting the system up there are no issues. Only after Nvidia drivers have been installed do the artifacts begin to appear. Thin white lines running horizontally across the screen, some from edge to edge, some with spaces in between, mostly localized towards the top of the screen. Moving the mouse over the lines makes them disappear but they can come back to that spot. The longer the system stays on the denser the lines get and they start spreading across the screen. In my panic to see if it can be fixed I forgot to take any pictures and have not used the GPU to avoid any other damage to either it or the system.
Ive already talked to people that would be able to do the soldering work to remove and replace the component, but the problem is half the piece is missing so we can't figure out exactly what that piece is. I can only read the first 2 letters on top of it : 4F (it could be an E, I cant say for sure).
On that same region of the board I found another component, same size, same number of contacts, same orientation and same black color labeled 4FG34.
I didn't want to jump the gun and say that's the one, so that brings me here.
I am wondering if anyone here has this GPU and could either check what the writing is on that component or be able to take a good enough photo with the text on the component visible. If you have any links to any sort of schematics for this board or anything like that, that would also be greatly appreciated.
P.S. #1: In device manager (under Display adapters > GPU name > Properties) it says : Windows has stopped this device because it has reported problems. (Code 43)
Code 43 can either mean driver issues or a hardware defect.
P.S. #2: The card has been tested in another system with the same results, artifacts after driver install, same error code in device manager.
P.S. #3: A different GPU was put in the system (Gigabyte 960 G1 Gaming 4GB) and after installing drivers the system worked just fine.
P.S. #4: The GPU is under warranty but due to certain reasons that's not an option.
P.S. #5 DDU (display driver uninstaller) was used on both systems to make sure drivers were not the cause of the problem.
*apologies for the 90* rotation of the last photo*
Upon booting the system up there are no issues. Only after Nvidia drivers have been installed do the artifacts begin to appear. Thin white lines running horizontally across the screen, some from edge to edge, some with spaces in between, mostly localized towards the top of the screen. Moving the mouse over the lines makes them disappear but they can come back to that spot. The longer the system stays on the denser the lines get and they start spreading across the screen. In my panic to see if it can be fixed I forgot to take any pictures and have not used the GPU to avoid any other damage to either it or the system.
Ive already talked to people that would be able to do the soldering work to remove and replace the component, but the problem is half the piece is missing so we can't figure out exactly what that piece is. I can only read the first 2 letters on top of it : 4F (it could be an E, I cant say for sure).
On that same region of the board I found another component, same size, same number of contacts, same orientation and same black color labeled 4FG34.
I didn't want to jump the gun and say that's the one, so that brings me here.
I am wondering if anyone here has this GPU and could either check what the writing is on that component or be able to take a good enough photo with the text on the component visible. If you have any links to any sort of schematics for this board or anything like that, that would also be greatly appreciated.
P.S. #1: In device manager (under Display adapters > GPU name > Properties) it says : Windows has stopped this device because it has reported problems. (Code 43)
Code 43 can either mean driver issues or a hardware defect.
P.S. #2: The card has been tested in another system with the same results, artifacts after driver install, same error code in device manager.
P.S. #3: A different GPU was put in the system (Gigabyte 960 G1 Gaming 4GB) and after installing drivers the system worked just fine.
P.S. #4: The GPU is under warranty but due to certain reasons that's not an option.
P.S. #5 DDU (display driver uninstaller) was used on both systems to make sure drivers were not the cause of the problem.
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