Hoggle
EVGA has a good history of handling RMA returns and they have said that cards are set aside to fill RMA needs. So while it's hard to find the card originally getting an RMA shouldn't be a long wait.

I can confirm this. I had to RMA my 3090 because of the red light of death issue and they sent me out a brand new card 2 days after receiving my dead one.

On a side note, can someone from evga comment on this issue? There seems to be a common theme here with these types of failures. Note mine does have red lights displaying. For me I briefly saw light blue boxes over screen, game crashed. Started game again then it crashed and screen went black. Turned off pc and back on and nothing but black screen, asus motherboard code is A2. From then on its over. The card is done. I did not apply the 450w firmware and nothing in my pc is overclocked.

Nice good luck

I just waiting outside shop to open, card in hand. Will be rma mine. It’s definitely dead. Tried everything but nothing after my initial black screen. I have the ftw3 ultra, is the factory overclock too much for ampere gpu s I wonder?

Hi guys,
 
Well I dropped my card into PB Tech this morning and they put it on their test bench and confirmed the GPU is faulty :( I asked them if they have had many returns and mine is the only one so far.  However they said that they have not sold many of them due to the price of the card.  Just to confirm what happened for me, 8 days of no issues card running great then all of a sudden in COD I saw lots of light blue colored boxes over the screen for about 4 seconds then crashed to desktop, followed by black screen.  Turned off PC and back on, but black screen and she was dead from then on.  
Now waiting for replacement EVGA card, which will be 2 to 3 days away.
 

sLaugR
My card from PB Tech (3080) has had some teething issues. I am hoping it is a processor bottleneck to why I don't get the frames expected or GPU utilisation. Haven't returned it yet as I have an AMD 5900x CPU ordered through PB Tech - another bloody launch stock fail  
If I get this new CPU and the card still doesn't output expected performance - it will be going back to PB T or get RMA'd to EVGA. 

Mate good luck, I have spent the whole weekend crying myself to sleep , waking up, looking at my card and realizing it wasn't a nightmare, and go straight back to crying.  Looking forward to my new card though :)
 
 
 

Data1987
Thats a MAJOR bummer for a 1500 dlls card... 

It is mate, I realize its a complex piece of kit.  However I feel like this launch has been really problematic, there are many people who are faced with the exact same fault as what I am having, therefore what is the cause of this fault and why is it happening? 

AgentOrangBaby
Damn mine keep crashing during gaming. Put everything on default still didn't fix the crashing issue. Is this the symptom before the card bite the dust?

I've seen people fix crashes using several different methods. The one that seems to help the most - update your motherboard's BIOS. There are stability fixes that people don't bother with, and it helps. But with zero computer specs from you, we can't really help a whole lot.
 
Edit: Starting your own thread instead of posting in someone else's can also get other users to help faster as well.

Today I just had the same type of crash chrisflanagan explained with my 3090 FTW3 Ultra. I received it 3 days ago, it was running fine with factory settings. I was still benchmarking it this morning and no problems occured. Then I launched DotA 2 this evening, screens gone black, the card was hyperventilating as when she did the Precision X1 update on day one. Computer finally rebooted by itself after 2 min. I was afraid it could be another update, so I didn't restart it myself.
 
And that's the result :
- screens are no longer detecting display input
- On windows, NVIDIA control panel is nowhere to be found
- On windows, the 3090 card is not visible anymore in graphics cards periphericals
- in the BIOS, the card is not visible.
 
Obviously, the card is not going well. It seems like she died on me, out of nowhere.
RGB still work fine, and I'm not sure about fans.
 
Tests with another displaying connection and screen, another graphic card, then PSU, and drivers reinstalled didn't work.
I have a Cooler Master v1200 platinum PSU, and it is in a perfect working state.
 
I already submitted a ticket to EVGA. What a pain in the ass.
 
 

Goemon2000
Had the same issue occur. GPU ran fine since I received it but while playing Cyberpunk, it crashed to a black screen. This was accompanied by the sound of the GPU cooling fans spinning at 100%. After the system started again, the GPU powers on (fans spin, LEDs work) but is not detected by the system. I have put my older 2070S in and swapped PCI-E slots and can confirm it is not a motherboard issue.
 
Even after uninstalling / installing drivers as well a fresh install of Windows 10, there is no luck. My PSU has enough power as it ran fine until this black screen. Thanks for reporting as it makes me feel that I am not the only one that received a defective unit. Will start the support / RMA process but am still thankful that I even received a 3090 and had 1.5 months of time to enjoy it.

I feel a bit less lonely right now, mate =D
Same situation, I reinstalled a 2080Ti to make tests and to wait for EVGA answer.

Goemon2000
From the timing, I wonder if it has anything to do with the new drivers that Nvidia put out? I saw the earliest post on this topic occurred just a few days ago around when the latest Game Ready Drivers were released (Dec 9th I believe). @nicohenki also stated that he received his card only three days ago. This would seem to indicate that the lots of our cards are different. I'm sure most of the affected parties would be aware of / practice updating to the newest driver when those are released as well.
 
From the timing and the manufactured lot differences, driver seems like a common thread but how could a driver kill a GPU to the point where it's not even being recognized anymore?

Nice analysis. I wonder if you're right, it's really intriguing.

EVGA 2080ti FTW3 has been fine for about a year now. Played ~30hr total of Cyberpunk 2077. One day the game crashed and the comp rebooted itself. Afterwards, now I get a crash after the CDProjektRed screen, the monitor goes black "no signal". Any other game or 3d application does a similar crash and freeze. After a few tries eventually I couldn't even boot into windows without the monitor going to "no signal" but this time instead of a freeze I could tell the computer was still running in the background. Sometimes I see a single blue and yellow line of artifacting across the screen after the crash and before the computer hangs. Crash report reads something like "Unknown GPU crash...etc" I forget exactly what it said. Very worried and upset about losing out on my 2080ti. I've recently sent a ticket to EVGA but havent heard back yet. Never really heard of software killing hardware but this game is such a MF mess. Finally got back into Windows and now I'm afraid to do anything or even let the computer go to sleep lol. Also, I have a custom loop and 1200w PSU so temps or power aren't a problem. So not sure if the fans 100%'d. I'll be pulling apart the hardline tubes for troubleshooting over the weekend :'(

KIS37
Just want to say I have the same issue. My 3090 FTW3 Ultra worked fine on stock settings for 3 months of casual 4K gaming until the fans went full speed, I got a black screen during a light game (GPU was about 60% loaded) and it stopped posting in BIOS. Seems like some design flaw. Hopefully I'm able to RMA through Germany because my local retailer last had this card in stock in March.

This is the EXACT same thing that happened to me today! Booted into iracing and got a black screen and fans at full speed. Tried reseating, switching bios, nothing. I bought the card in December 2020.
Spoke to EVGA and setting up the RMA.  

Setting up my second RMA today. The replacement card they sent me unfortunately died the same death after only three days. Power LED lighting up on one of the pcie 8 pin connectors. This sucks.