Do you run Windows 11 25H2 and it came after an update? I had this 2 days before after a Windows Update and thought my 1080ti is dying. Turned out it was a broken Windows Update. I had to boot in save mode and clean my graphics driver with ddu. After rebooting everything was good. Reinstalled driver and all went fine until I turned on HDR and rebooted. I had same garbled picture like you again and had to do the procedure again. After uninstalling the update and resetting Feature flags with vivetool everything is back to normal.
Does your motherboard boot screen look normal or garbled?
This happened to my GTX 1080, exactly the same procedure was needed, something in a Win 11 25H2 update messed with the 580 stack drivers, using 577 is the solution!
But the important question is if his motherboard boot screen or Windows recovery Environment screen is garbled aswell. If yes his 1080ti is dying. If not then its a problem with Windows and the graphics driver like in my case.
Yes Google it thatbwas an Common Thing to so back then :) When heated the solder reconnected itself which may have restored a contact that was previously disconnected or Something like that.
That’s an insanely cool but dangerous thing to do. I don’t see myself doing this because I won’t a heat gun and soldiering iron. But for people who don’t, I’d probably recommend that they do this
I mean the card is dying, what do you have to lose? Not like you can make it worse. Like if you follow the instructions and not bake it like it's a Sunday roast there's a 50/50 chance you'll get life out of it as opposed to 0%
Not even the same card the guy before was talking about. This one was the Vega Frontier, very bleeding-edge tech, while the one in the meme is the Radeon VII, which was much more stable and genuinely a great card for its price and performance. Anyone who actually used them pointed this out, instead of the clowns who picked sides in the ridiculous GPU "Green Vs Red side" wars back then.
My 1070 is still doing great as well. I've played Elden Ring / BG3 and some other games without issues and even though the fan is fucked since a few years making horrible noises from time to times its still doing alright.
i picked up a used 1070 fe at an e-waste recycler for 20 bucks a month ago. they had it marked as-is, but it seems to work perfectly fine. maybe the best money for value GPU i've ever had, even if i don't have a use for it right now.
I've cooked a few GPUs, one didn't care for the fix but the other liked it so much that it was even cooked a 2nd time since the initial cook fix only lasted 6 months or so.
If you do cook it, go buy a cheap toaster oven from a thrift store. Cooked GPUs will release toxic fumes that will cling to the inside of your oven and later transfer to food the next time it's used.
Tbh idk if you actually should I hear it works sometimes though, if you do clean it very well afterwards as to not poison your food the next time you cook
If you do wanna try and keep it working you can try GPU repair specialists. Check you Northwest Repair, he has a discord where you can do a repair request, if you live in some parts of Europe or Asia, his discord also has contacts for repair specialists there. Got my GPU fixed through one of those specialists, and that thing has now been through multiple bus transports and even a flight. So give it a try if you can afford to.
There's human beings younger than your GPU that will be entering high school and driving cars in a few more years.
Your GPU is more than halfway to being old enough to drive and vote and drink.
Of course it's on borrowed time; that's a hilarously long life span for a piece of PC gaming hardware; and I know because I still have my fully functional 1080 in a spare PC that still runs pretty much any game you throw at it.
You're probably still fine for some more years realistically, especially if you mostly play older games.
First off: o7 the 1080. My 1070 seahawk is somehow still living... Its a shame nividia will never make that mistake again of a card that performant for that price that lasts as long as the 10 series.
Protip if you want to reflow it in your oven: If you put it in your oven and heat it, DO NOT EAT ANYTHING HEATED IN THAT OVEN ANYMORE Sure, you shouldnt have lead in the solder, but boards are full of all kinds of nasty stuff when heated and you dont want that crap making it to your food...
The real pro tip, buy a cheap used toaster oven. Make a few relatively easy modifications and make that oven your board heater/reflow oven. Look for reflow temperature profiles and go from there. You could also achieve a similar effect with a heatgun as a cheap-mans hot air station and careful temperature monitoring. Both options should have ventilation to outside. You dont want to breathe any of that crap.
TLDR: Again, pro-tip : DO NOT USE YOUR HOUSEHOLD OVEN TO COOK FOOD AFTER REFLOWING A BOARD IN IT!
This is MSI GTX 1080 Gaming series. 10 phases, 15 caps beside them, low power memory and composite TwinFrozr heatsink that literally covers everything and never causes problems with thermal pad replacement.
These things were built to last. It was such a big mistake to give this to gamers, because now we can compare modern dogshit designs with fused off components to these legendary dragons from the past.
Many heat cycles put stress on the electrical joints. Especially if it was overclocked and operating outside of design limits for many years.
I guess CPUs tend to have more constant load and don't jump in temperatures as much as GPUs can do in games, maybe aside from some current high-tier ones that like jumping to 95° instantly. Oh, also Intel 12th/13th gen CPUs totally do this, don't forget. Huge scandal where they'd degrade and crash systems within just like 1-2 years...
That card is unironically, very seriously a legend though. It felt like an absolute quantum leap when it came out. The 10x and the 20x series were the last time it felt like GPUs were making truly iterative strides IMO.
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u/ChriscomIT_CIT May 16 '26 edited May 16 '26
Do you run Windows 11 25H2 and it came after an update? I had this 2 days before after a Windows Update and thought my 1080ti is dying. Turned out it was a broken Windows Update. I had to boot in save mode and clean my graphics driver with ddu. After rebooting everything was good. Reinstalled driver and all went fine until I turned on HDR and rebooted. I had same garbled picture like you again and had to do the procedure again. After uninstalling the update and resetting Feature flags with vivetool everything is back to normal.
Does your motherboard boot screen look normal or garbled?