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2020/03/15 19:25:42 (permalink)
I recently found a SC17 that I totally forgot I bought 2 years ago and upon turning it on, kept having it freeze and restart. After debugging and contacting support, I narrowed it down to the 1070 being weird. If I boot it in safe mode, it works perfectly fine; if I boot it normally and disable the GTX 1070, it no longer freezes and restarts as well. 
 
Is there anywhere I can buy a replacement GPU (or would I need to buy a full motherboard replacement? ) for the laptop? 
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    Re: SC17 1070 Replacement GPU 2020/03/16 04:44:20 (permalink)
    You would need to buy the whole motherboard.

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    Re: SC17 1070 Replacement GPU 2020/03/16 11:23:58 (permalink)
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    You would need to buy the whole motherboard.

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    Re: SC17 1070 Replacement GPU 2020/03/16 18:36:58 (permalink)
    OK, I'll bite
     
    If it works fine in Safe Mode ... could it be a driver issue or just the TIM / cooling ?

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    Re: SC17 1070 Replacement GPU 2020/03/17 18:00:42 (permalink)
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    OK, I'll bite
     
    If it works fine in Safe Mode ... could it be a driver issue or just the TIM / cooling ?


    How would you check the TIM/Cooling?
     
    In regular mode, as long as I disable the 1070 in Device Manager, it works fine as well.
     
    I've tried updating driver through GeForce Experience as well.
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    Re: SC17 1070 Replacement GPU 2020/03/18 06:10:35 (permalink)
    Sounds like a GPU hardware issue to me.

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    Re: SC17 1070 Replacement GPU 2020/03/19 09:36:16 (permalink)
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    OK, I'll bite
     
    If it works fine in Safe Mode ... could it be a driver issue or just the TIM / cooling ?


    How would you check the TIM/Cooling?
     
    In regular mode, as long as I disable the 1070 in Device Manager, it works fine as well.
     
    I've tried updating driver through GeForce Experience as well.


     
    If its still under warranty ... I'd contact EVGA & not touch it
     
    Full disassembly ... best to take it to a shop ..unless you have above average skills, correct tools & a big clean area to work
     
    laptops can be a pain to disassembly .. you do not want to break anything
     
    Maybe it just uses the CPU's iGPU in safe mode ?

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    Re: SC17 1070 Replacement GPU 2020/03/19 10:44:20 (permalink)
    I don't think that the SC17 is capable of using the Intel iGPU. I think that it works in safe mode and with the driver not running ("disabled") because hardware acceleration is then disabled and the basic 2d Windows driver is very rudimentary and stable.

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    Re: SC17 1070 Replacement GPU 2020/03/19 21:07:10 (permalink)
    Use Display Driver Uninstaller (DDU) to uninstall the 1070's drivers and then reinstall them, you'll use DDU in safe mode to uninstall the drivers. Just an fyi in safemode windows uses generic video drivers that's why it is working in safe mode if your cpu doesn't have integrated drivers, so chances are you have driver problems

     
     
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