We got the GPU working again! Here's how! 

Jay: "We killed a GPU." GPU: "I'm not dead. I don't want to go on the wall."

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This is the kind of content I love. This is the kind of content that made me subscribe so long ago. Please keep doing technical, hands on solutions for hardware/software problems. The way this video was set up was great entertainment and this video is very informative and also entertaining. 10/10, love this video.

"Where is my blowtorch" 10/10

How we see JayzTwoCents in this video: *good old pc repair guy* How Robots see JayzTwoCents in this video: *T H E M E D I C*

10:25 on Windows 10 on any folder. You can click on the address bar and type CMD and the enter. It opens an CMD prompt in the actual folder.

07:00 Me: GPU were you killed? GPU: Sadly yes... GPU: BUT then i LIVED!

Alternatively, you can type "cmd" into the address bar within a folder to open command prompt in that folder. Of course, it wouldn't matter in this case since admin privileges were needed.

"wanted to show you how to flash bios" "not gonna show how to do it because this is not a tutorial" Logic

You can still open command prompt in any folder by holding SHIFT while right clicking.

Jay: Briiing out your dead /rings bell GPU: I'm not dead yet! Jay: quiet, you will be soon enough GPU: no really, I feel much better

Phil's laugh is awesome

Hey Jay, not that you'll see this but: I'm still running a gtx 770 and you wouldn't wanna know what kind of frankenstein homebrew madness ive done to it to keep it running since 2012/2013. I've used the sciency experiments you've done over the years as a basis for my highly experimental repairs. But im gonna tell you anyway: 1: Homebrew heatpaste involving used/recycled heatpaste mixed with "other stuff" to pad out the used paste.. 3 yrs and still going. 2: Fans literally falling off their mounts/shafts and being glued on with almost everything except actual super glue 2+ years 3: Fan bearings dying so using grease /vegetable oil / lard to grease the shaft on the fans and heve them spinning inside of the dead bearings ~ 2yrs 4. Using deskfans and other various household fans to "assist" with cooling. - experiment failed Ive applied similar homebrew tactics to my CPU paste / cooler fan which gave up the ghost for abit but im happy to report i've had much greater success. the temps are actually still quite good.. considering.. ~70-90c at 100% load. After of all that and despite my best efforts im sad to say GPU temps have been affected "slightly" by my experimentation over the years.. GPU puuurrrrs at 95c for a long time now (years) and probably 100db while at 100% fanspeed but you know what? She's still going strong.. running apex legends at around 50-60fps @1080 almost everyday.. Res evil 2, every battlefield since BF3 and many many other titles.. Everyday i want her to give in to all the punishment and end the torture but she just wont give up. so i must continue with this experiment in the Gtx770's honor :D So heres to YOU and inspiring me to try the things you told us NOT to do and to some degree it actually working! Honest to god, No BS, true story.

10:23 - Hold shift key, right click folder in left window (folder view). Need to be logged in as an administrator for admin cmd prompt.

Nice! Can’t wait to see this. I am doing a troubleshooting video on my channel too next week, Titan Xp wasn’t working

I love how he looks around and expresses everything naturally during the video Extremely natural

I'm going to go back to that video and say "it the display port" lol

That ZL1 background is 11/10. Dream car

Next up: How easy/difficult is it to kill a card with static discharges.

Quick command-line tip: for long filenames, you can type in the first few letters and then press and it'll fill in the rest of the filename. If you have multiple files starting with the same letters, then press to cycle through them to find the one you want.

"Uploaded 1 second ago" *It's my time to shine*

That is a great sponsor on the video :D I ordered my Sennheiser HD Jubilee 58X from Drop and they have shipped and worked perfectly.

"You're a big man, you've got lots of wood"

Watching you type that out actually made me cry Jay. For everyone, in windows 10, you can drag and drop a file, and it will paste the file location/name into command prompt

I’m loving it. The cup in the background made me go get McDonald’s

4 minutes in: congratulations J you fixed it! If only everything could be fixed by just saying you’re going to try and fix it. I had a GTX 970 that had a similar issue. It got hit by lightning and I thought the GPU was dead, but the dvi port I was using was the only issue so I just switch to the second dvi port. Perfectly working GPU.

I see jay wearing floatplane but still not on it! Take our 💰 instead of ads

I've worked on a lot of non-typical electronics, some of which had the potential to get wet. Our standard when it happened was to blow it off with pressurized air, and let it dry for 24 hours. Realistically, 8 is probably fine, but we aired on the side of caution. Of course, be careful with how much pressure there is to the air if the component has smaller parts that may be damaged.

*Phil* "Dont put that evil on me Ricky Bobby"

have a long standing interest in becoming a self made "pre builder" to sell as my own pc's. and you my friend just gave me the greatest name ever to call my systems

Can’t be bothered recording another sponsor advert, screw it we’ll just redo the audio. They won’t notice it’s old massdrop branding on the box 😂

Thanks guys. This made me go and fix a nagging problem I've been having for monts. A Zotac 1080 TI Mini with an accelero Twin Turbo installed on it. Problem is, the fan wouldn't go below 44% in idle. Flashed it to an EVGA model (using that handy -6 switch) and I can now lower the fan speed to 0RPM if need be. But I'll be keeping it at 20% until the card hits 50C as recommended by Arctic. Thanks again for reminding me how easy it is to fix things if you do your research!

Ya Billy's like "I'm right here" but he's like missing a leg or something

I said you should clean it with distilled water and let it dry. Those spray bottles very likely contain salts and soaps which will turn into salts. Letting those be drained away with distilled water will very likely fix the issue. Since you narrowed it down to the second DP port it would likely only need to be done to that area. The thing is tho I personally would not do that unless I absolutely needed that second DP port. Good video. Nice to see it back.

i'm about to get a new pc soon so i'm real hyped

@JayzTwoCents - hold shift, do right click. You'll be offered the option to open Powershell/command prompt there. Also you can use the Tab key to autocomplete in Command/Powershell ;)

"aluminumimimunumumm" --Jay 2019

If you need to quickly open CMD to a directory that you are currently in, just type 'cmd' into the navigation bat at the top of the Explorer window. That trick has saved me many precious seconds 👌

Sweet, first part for my build is a Jay fix it job. 😂

Earlier today I watched a video from a few years ago where you fixed a GPU you had gotten as a media sample and now you uploaded a video of you fixing another GPU today. Not entirely coincidental but still cool

I am so jealous. I'm still tryna save up for a 470 and r3

I also had a similar thing happen. I put new thermal paste on a 1060 6gb and it worked for a while but then the screen went black and the fans went to full speed. I had remaining alcohol that was under the gpu chip. Disassembled it, put it back together, let it set in a rig and it came back to life. Works fine as a gaming card now.

"nobody should be running 32 bit in 2019" Me: :laughs: yeah, I totally don't run 32 bit..

Here's a tip. Windows Command Prompt (and PowerShell too) will autocomplete filenames and paths when you hit tab. If there are multiple files that match what you typed, you can keep hitting tab to cycle through them.

Probably i will wash my rtx next time so the dust will go out haha🤣

That water dousing video was one of the most mind easing videos for a new pc builder thank you buddy!

Damn Jay has lost a LOT of weight, Well done man

Hi Jay, This is a follow up to my last comment. I realized after I sent the comment that it only works on the root drive and not other drives. So if you replace "cmd.exe /T:1e /k CD %1" with "cmd.exe /T:1e /k pushd %L" it will work for other drives on the system as well including USB drives. Mapped NAS drives don't work with this until you use it on the Network drive first. Then the mapped drives work as well. It's pretty sweet actually. Have a great day. Brad

I have a demon core. Does anyone have a flat headed screw driver? 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Jay! You can run command prompt at the current directory still! Just instead of right clicking, type “cmd” in the file address bar and hit enter. It opens the command prompt at your current directory.

I just finished watching the original 😭

You know I always appreciate your realistic view of the world of water cooling. The echo chamber of forums can really over complicate things.

Glad you did this mess to that poor Card, a while ago my Loop decided to crap a huge Spliff on my GPU and killed it. ( A bad Mix between not tight enough hardtubing and CPU Block getting a lot of heat because the stupid EK Loop Connect decided to give up before i started Gaming) Then i remembered you talking about corrupted BIOS in this Video and thats actually was the fault on mine and saved it, Still running like a champ.

Thank you Jay, thanks to this video i fixed my graphics card on my laptop, I corrupted the graphics card bios while repasting by shorting the motherboard while reasembling it and it only worked with 388 nvidia driver from windows,couldn't install a new driver at all. Reflashing the bios fixed all my problems.

There are some resistors on the card that make up the hardware PCI-e ID number that is presented at hardware level. You used to be able to mod these thing to get e.g. an nVidia Grid card to show up as a Tesla, then flashing the Tesla BIOS on to the EEPROM was not hindered by ID mismatch between hardware and BIOS revision. I think it's a lot more complicated, or at least undocumented as of right now from the 10 series and up.

Love you guys a lot! Lot of good information and hilarity to go along with it. Can't wait until the pressurized video comes out hopefully

It's probably not the port itself but rather a filter capacitor connected to the port, a relatively easy fix after identifying which component is shorted. Time to learn how to solder microelectronics Jay.

you can still open cmd on the folder itself. just click onto the file path (C:\Users\Public....) so that is is highlighted in blue and type in "cmd"

you can go in to the location bar(Ctrl+L) and type "cmd" and press enter to launch command prompt in the current directory. another way of doing it is use the file menu and select open command prompt/PowerShell in current directory.

@JayzTwoCents If you don't mind powershell, just hold shift and right click into a directory and you will get option to run a powershell window starting in that directory. I'm also 100% sure there is a way to change to cmd if you want. Cheers.

One should NOT stick electronics in a bag of rice to dry them up, because of mold that can build up and cause havoc. Jay, you can run the command promt with right clicking, just hold down the SHIFT button at the same time.

lol loved the video jay. Long story short this happened to me years ago with an ATI 6800 card and I just said eff it and tossed it in the dish washer with a cup of vinegar and the card came back to life including the bad port. I did this 4 years ago and I am still using the ATI 6800 card to this day on my old socket 1366 server.

Love the information and stories in this one

Reminds me of the scene off Monty Python and the Holy Grail, in the town when they are going "Bring out your Dead", and the family is trying to get rid of the old man, and he is "IM NOT DEAD YET"

hey heads up for those who thought it was corrosion, corrosion is actually much more air driven, as WW2 tanks have been retrieved from deep into lakes and only started oxyding after being exposed to air

if you bricked your bios, you can, on a very technical level, manually write the flash by attaching it to an external, appropriate eprom writer. Typically you short a reset pin to ground while the chip is powered and then write the flash. I think most bios chips are 6-pin. This would result in using SPI (Serial Programmable Interface). The only thing left to get the tech docs that state the memory locations/headers to write to.

Actually corrosion is pretty likely depending on what was shorted. If a high power track shorted to a low power one on the port there might have been an arc that corroded the contact points instantly and then left a bunch of oxide that is still potentially shorting which may manifest in the card blanking when going to higher bandwidth modes such as higher resolution of booting into windows.

@Jay Two things bud: You still can run command prompt (or power shell, depending on your settings) by holding shift and right clicking on empty space within the directory. Also, the file name does not matter, you could have just typed the first few letters of the file name and got cmdprmpt or posh to complete the file name by hitting tab :)

Odds are pretty good that the traces to the dp have been damaged due to a bit of electrolysis. I'd pull the cover and sink off and see if any of the traces have been damaged it only takes a couple seconds for damage to occur when you've got electricity and liquids together none of that is necessarily permanent just hard to repair.

At 10:24 - "you use to be able to open command prompt here" Jay! You can do that in windows 10 still, they just made it less obvious. It's Shift+right click to bring up that option!

Shift right click in file explorer or type cmd then enter in the file explorer address bar. You don't have to type out full filename in command prompt either. Just type first few letters of filename then press tab to autocomplete. Cycle through choices if you have similar names by pressing tab again etc.

Video Idea Do some control test with a few of the same motherboards and CPUs even with water droplets. Try to find where water will kill the board immediately if it makes contact and in areas that the water does not kills the board immediately, let the water sit for maybe 20 minutes to 40 minutes for a test of if your loop is leaking how long do you have to spot it.

I have so much to learn. I get caught in the You Tube black hole of computer knowledge for hours!

You should still mount the card to the wall because it’s legendary and will always be remembered as the card that won’t die

12:30 - well you did drop the card off it's precarious mount a couple of times so it's possible that's what damaged the port and not the liquids. I think you should be adding this to the hall of heroes for being one tough S.O.B.

When it comes to electronics the better way to dry them would be to use isopropyl alcohol to absorb any water under any BGAs as the water may start to cause corrosion which can cause it to work intermittently or even not at all.

I'm glad you didn't total that GPU, and it was interesting to see how to flash the ROM. That said, sometimes I've seen cards not run in one port, but another card will run perfectly fine in that same port. Before you totally write it off, therefore, you could try another GPU (or maybe a network card) in the misbehaving port, to see if it's actually a voltage issue.

You should revisit the card couple of months later to see if any corrosion develops. Also you could put it under load over that time to simulate it being used (or have somebody actually use it), to see if it would expedite any corrosion-caused issues.

In W10 you can launch PowerShell in the folder instead of command line from the context menu, you just have to hold Shift while right clicking.

Try to put some (a lot of) Flux on the card and heat it up with a heatgun to clean the card of possible corrosion. Learned this from Louis Rossman. Alternatively, I've also cleaned cards by using a soft toothbrush and dishwashing liquid soap. Revived some cards this way.

this card deserves that place on the wall of heroes, but most likely it will be like a Rambo hero that just keeps being pulled back into the fight when it just wants to retire

Jay, to open CMD in that directory, click in the address bar, type CMD, and press enter. Alternatively, you can drag and drop files into CMD to run them.

Interesting outcome. I learned a few years ago to always try another port if a graphics card stops working or gets weird. Though we know that port was working before the dowsing, dead or soon-to-die ports are not a new thing. The Gigabyte 980Ti Gaming G1 cards (old now but then top-notch) shipped with six outputs: 3 DP, 1 HDMI, 1 DVI-I and one DVI-D. I have three of these. The DVI-D port on every one of them is dead or dormant, and they've probably been that way from day one without me knowing. I know now because I briefly used one of the cards to drive an older monitor with no HDMI or DP input. Nothing from DVI-D, worked fine on DVI-I. Different monitor, different cable, same result. I did some research and found that this was a common thing with this model and some 970s as well. So out of curiosity I checked the other two cards, and their DVI-D ports are also dead. The cards were well beyond warranty by this time, but I didn't strictly need DVI-D output anyway. So here's the PSA: If you have the monitors to do it, check every port as soon as you unbox a new graphics card. Since most no longer ship with VGA or DVI, it should be easy to do.

Fun fact with win 10: In explorer, you can click the address bar, type "cmd" and press enter... You'll get a command prompt in the current directory. I THINK this works with 7 and 8 too, but don't remember anymore

Back in the old days I flashed a 5900XT with a 5900 Ultra BIOS and it ran beautifully. At max load the card reached a max of 100 degrees celsius, but no thermal throttling mind you. Also, you have autocomplete in CMD using the TAB-key.

Awesome content! Thank you Jay!

I do remember on my old GTX 970 GPU-z would not save my bios, but I could still save it using nvflash, so for those who are adventurous I would recommed trying that first.

Thanks for walking us through your Soldier Analogy Jay!

In Windows 10 you can run CMD from any file location. Yes you can't right click and select "Open Command Line" however you can just type in "CMD" in the navigation bar at the top to open CMD in that directory.

corrosion is unlikely. The Windex was basically a highly conductive, sticky solution. My thought was the Windex was sitting on the PCB, and conducting, and hadn't been cleared by the spray with the soapy water and scrub. Even dry, it would still be a potential problem.

LOL! That Pepperidge Farms remembers comment killed me!! xD

9:53 - cmd has tab complete, you could have just typed M and then tab

10:25 , hold shift + right click in the folder to add those options to the right click menu

Phil's laugh always gets me. It's so contagious.

this card is like a super hero. no matter what you try and how hard you try but i will comeback

Jay someone needs to show you tab completion in the command prompt as well as PowerShell. Also there is an easy way to open the cmd prompt to a specific folder. Simply locate your folder in Windows explorer and in the address bar select everything and type cmd and press enter. It will open to that location BUT does not allow you to select run as administrator.

@jayzTwoCents you can open cmd fast and easy in Win 10, by clicking in the address field and write CMD and press Enter, this will open CMD with the path you open it in, like if you do this and you are in a folder on C driver named: something, it will open cmd with the path: c:/something

Easy way to get to 'Command Line' from the folder that you are in on Windows 10. Go to the folder you want. Then click on the address bar, then at the very start type cmd. So your path would be something like 'cmd c:\users\Jay\Downloads\somethingcool\' then press enter... Enjoy!

10:33 You can type cmd into the address-bar in windows explorer. It will open it in the current directory. This works with the powershell too. This only works if you don't need admin-rights.

Name that GPU Mark Watney. It was presumed dead, the community found out it wasn't dead, and Jay brought it back to us.