iamWalk

jspataro99

iamWalk

jspataro99

iamWalk
I experienced an issue w/ the 3090 as well - crash, no video output, but can hear windows running just fine. Fried my motherboard, the pcie16 slot was busted afterwards.

Moved it to a new PC, and experienced the exact same crash as above, although this time it didn't fry the mobo, at least.

more details in a thread here: forums.evga.com/FindPost/3150118

LongLiveBobDole
This just happened to my 3090 FTW3 Ultra.  I was playing Halo MCC of all games.  Paused the game to go turn subtitles on and heard a pop.  PC restarted with the single red LED (the far left one) on the GPU.  Customer support was extremely helpful and fast though and they have me another card coming by next week hopefully.  This was with a Asus Thor 1200W PSU and no overclocking on the card beside raising the power limit to 107% in Precision X1. My previous GPU on the same PSU had no problems whatsoever.  Just wanted to add my experience in here.  

Same game that caused my issues, although I didn't hear a pop. 

I just read the details in your other post. That sounds like a nightmare. Can you tell us if there was a single red light above one of the VGA power pins like in other cases here? I’m trying to determine whether I should be concerned about my mobo’s pcie16 slot being damaged as I wait to buy the 3090 FTW3 Ultra Hybrid after having RMA’d the 3090 FTW3 Ultra for a refund earlier this week. Of course I sold my 2080Ti right after I installed the new card, so I don’t currently have another GPU to test in my mobo in the interim.

I don't recall seeing a red light. I didn't know to look for it at the time, so it's possible I just missed it, or else my issue is slightly different from what others are experiencing but has the same symptoms(no video output while PC keeps running). The crash on the second PC didn't have a red light, but like I said that one was fixed after a reset, not a permanent death. 

I just ran an benchmark overnight, and frame capped it to be between 5-15% GPU usage, similar to what MCC ran at when I experienced both the crashes.. and it ran all night with no issues. My issues right now seem to be extremely specific to MCC. For the time being I just uninstalled it. If it happens in another game, especially one with low usage, that's another data point that might help track down the issue(hopefully not frying my current/replacement motherboard in the process). 

Thanks for letting me know. Hopefully, whatever is causing this issue will be resolved with the Hybrid series, at least in my case. Was your mobo that fried using pci 3.0 or 4.0 slots? I wonder if there is any correlation between the pci bandwidth available to these cards and the failure rate of the power pins.

GIGABYTE Z490 AORUS Elite = pci 4.0

jspataro99

p37ar
It was the left one. I then used a seperate PSU my brand new Corsair SF 750 platinum to power the XC3 by itself and then 2 red lights? I brought my card to my friends house who owns a 3080 FTW3 and put my card in his system and got the red light on the left again.

Very interesting.  For what it's worth, I just spoke to an EVGA tech support representative a few minutes ago, and he confirmed that my RMA'd 3090 FTW3 Ultra failed testing.  So it looks like it was the card itself that failed and not my hardware, at least in my case.

compuclinic
I'm back up and going after replacing my single red light failing card. 

Very scared though as I had my replacement go black screen in GTA5,   soft reboot,  no video fans remaining spinning at 100% TWICE.   Cold boot resolved.  

errrr   Praying this isn't a sign of things to come.    This card passed some real life gaming tests,  few bench runs,   but reboots my PC when I run Port Royal which worked 100% flawlessly countless times on my previous 3090.  

I really don't have much confidence in this thing!!!

p37ar

Naur1
Mine just got the 1 red LED light and is dead.  Currently in the RMA process

I bought my card from a pc shop in Aus. I don’t know if I should return to them and let them RMA or go direct via EVGA.

Howling did you have it before it broke? Also what model is yours just out of interest

compuclinic
Well,  at least we can put to bed the original issue of whether or not the limitation getting a card to 500 watts is a system or card limitation is solved.     I just played Star Wars Fallen Order for an hour or so,  was watching GPUZ pop up in the high 400's.   Checked the max after the game session and now see a 496.1W  !!   This is the exact same system config as before.   Never could touch over 454 on the previous card.

Really sad to see others going through this same experience.  As if the 3000 series wasn't plagued already with enough issues from stock to PR,  we now have to worry about this.    At least it seems like EVGA isn't the type of company that will leave us with bad cards.   If these are notoriously bad,  they'll fix them in a later revision.   Any of us who use our cards like a person who spends 1800 dollars on a video card should, likely will experience a failure if there's a "weak link" on the card.  

Otherwise K1ng me. :P 

Zetta

LongLiveBobDole
This just happened to my 3090 FTW3 Ultra.  I was playing Halo MCC of all games.  Paused the game to go turn subtitles on and heard a pop.  PC restarted with the single red LED (the far left one) on the GPU.  Customer support was extremely helpful and fast though and they have me another card coming by next week hopefully.  This was with a Asus Thor 1200W PSU and no overclocking on the card beside raising the power limit to 107% in Precision X1. My previous GPU on the same PSU had no problems whatsoever.  Just wanted to add my experience in here.  

Halo MCC claims another victim... It's weird, I don't know if everyone is just playing this game right now, but both me and my brothers 3090 Ultra died about an hour apart while playing MCC about 2 weeks ago, and you're the 3rd person I've seen on this forum have their card die while playing this game... Now I'm definitely scared to try it again since getting my new card.

jspataro99
Ugh.  Sorry to hear this.  Mine had died in the first few minutes of playing The Division 2.  Maybe you'll receive a black trim version now and the problems will be fixed.  I'm waiting on my Kingpin purchase email, and hopefully it won't suffer from the same red light of death issue.  Good luck!