RTX 2080TI Failure

[Tinkickef]

Just had a doozy of an afternoon. If a doctor put a blood pressure monitor on me, the dial would have blown off the gauge.

 

So, first time on PC since Xmas. Windows did an update to really throw the cat among the pigeons, but suspecting nothing, I fired up Oculus and fired up DCS.

 

Went into one of my usual Persian Gulf missions and noticed the taxiway lines were juddering at my 9 and 3 o'clock as I passed them.

Thought it must be something to do with the update. Took off and the PC rebooted. Odd. Restarted the mission and the PC rebooted. This time before I got to the runway. Sodding Microsoft did it again thinks I.

 

Downloaded the latest Nvidia driver to see if it cured it. Nope, reboot before I got the aircraft started. Then the dreaded blue screen of death.

 

Tried auto repair. failed.

Tried recovery files from a SD card. Failed.

Tried to boot into safe mode. Failed.

Tried every recovery option barring clean instal. Failed.

Did a wipe and clean install of Windows. Failed, still a blue screen of death, then suddenly a black screen. Penny drops.

 

Removed 2080ti. PC booted normally using on board GPU.:noexpression:

 

RMA procedure started and 100s of Gb of files to reinstate, all on a 4 megabit/second rural internet connection.

 

 

It's going to take days. :mad:

Edited January 12, 2019 by Tinkickef

[dooom]

throw the cat among the pigeons

 

 

^^ That is gold. Never heard it... noted and filed for the future.

 

 

as an aside... sorry to hear of the troubles.

[dburne]

I think the RTX 2080's may be seeing a little higher failure rate than normal based on what I have been reading.

Knocking on wood here, I have been lucky with my EVGA 2080 Ti FTW3 Ultra so far.

 

Sorry to hear this one bit you in the butt, I know that has to be extremely frustrating. Hope they get you sorted soon.

[Tinkickef]

I think the RTX 2080's may be seeing a little higher failure rate than normal based on what I have been reading.

Knocking on wood here, I have been lucky with my EVGA 2080 Ti FTW3 Ultra so far.

 

Sorry to hear this one bit you in the butt, I know that has to be extremely frustrating. Hope they get you sorted soon.

 

If you start noticing a slight drop off in performance and then sudden rebooting, at least you will know to remove the card before trying to restore windows and not wipe the lot like I did in my panic to breathe some life back into my bricked PC. Really thought that it was some sort of MS ploy to get those who upgraded from win 7 to win 10 for free to have to go out and purchase a new copy of win 10.

I was totally blindsided by the windows update occurring just before the failure and had forgotten a slight drop in performance over Xmas which I put down to an Oculus firmware update.

 

If someone else has read this, has a malfunctioning card, and it helps prevent them from making the mistakes I did, then its all good. ;)

 

I managed to download the DCSworld engine overnight and have gained access to the module manager, so my modules are downloading as I speak. Another 60gb..... EDIT: Whoo the download just clicked up to a heady 2%. Of course all my missions have gone, but I may be able to download some I posted on the forum over Xmas. :) it took me ages populating all those airfields with ground objects; so at least I will have something to "save as" for new missions without the need for hours of placing aircraft and ground equipment again.

 

I have not even started on other apps like oculus yet.

Edited January 13, 2019 by Tinkickef

[SkipCarey]

If you start noticing a slight drop off in performance and then sudden rebooting, at least you will know to remove the card before trying to restore windows and not wipe the lot like I did in my panic to breathe some life back into my bricked PC. Really thought that it was some sort of MS ploy to get those who upgraded from win 7 to win 10 for free to have to go out and purchase a new copy of win 10.

I was totally blindsided by the windows update occurring just before the failure and had forgotten a slight drop in performance over Xmas which I put down to an Oculus firmware update.

 

If someone else has read this, has a malfunctioning card, and it helps prevent them from making the mistakes I did, then its all good. ;)

 

I managed to download the DCSworld engine overnight and have gained access to the module manager, so my modules are downloading as I speak. Another 60gb..... EDIT: Whoo the download just clicked up to a heady 2%. Of course all my missions have gone, but I may be able to download some I posted on the forum over Xmas. :) it took me ages populating all those airfields with ground objects; so at least I will have something to "save as" for new missions without the need for hours of placing aircraft and ground equipment again.

 

I have not even started on other apps like oculus yet.

yea I saw its kinda widespread with the 2080ti saw it on the internet today ,1200 is a lot of money only to have it go south like that.

[Tinkickef]

yea I saw its kinda widespread with the 2080ti saw it on the internet today ,1200 is a lot of money only to have it go south like that.

 

It is unfortunate, but shit happens. I got RMA clearance and sent the offending card on its way back to the retailer this morning. Probably won't see the replacement for at least a week and likely longer.

 

In the meantime my poor PC has been downloading constantly for 2 days and nights and still has not finished replacing my lost DCS files yet. I'm on 91% currently. Then I have to start on the other apps.

 

It is my bad however, I should not have relied on a recovery disk/SD card.

 

I have learned my lesson though, I have a 2TB external hard drive ordered and I am going to do a full system image backup when all the files are downloaded.

[SkipCarey]

I just bought a RTX 2080 Founders addition ($800)and Im very weary but Ive read these cards are coming from Nvidia already overclocked?thats a first for Nvidias founders addition. I was running MSI afterburner and after I read the cards are factory overclocked I quickly got rid of afterburner .

[Tinkickef]

I just bought a RTX 2080 Founders addition ($800)and Im very weary but Ive read these cards are coming from Nvidia already overclocked?thats a first for Nvidias founders addition. I was running MSI afterburner and after I read the cards are factory overclocked I quickly got rid of afterburner .

 

As long as you stay below 85C you should not have problems with the GPU itself. From what I have gathered it is a memory problem with the new DDR6 overheating and failing. I used the Evga Precision X1 utility that uses nvidia's own scan tool to OC mine and as far as I know it didnt really alter the vram clock much if at all.

Certainly from the videos I watched waiting for the card release, you cannot really alter anything software wise that could damage the card.

 

I think if a card is going to fail, it will fail regardless. Certainly in real life conditions playing dcs I never really saw the card temp go above the high 60s.