Diagnose computer crash that leaves no trace?

[DacoTaco]

(04-16-2018, 11:47 AM)Der Siebte Schatten Wrote: [color=#000066]I had similarly the same issue a few years ago, when my main computer was fitted with an nVidia 9600GS. The problem with the 2007-2008 era GPUs was that they overheated very easily and often, welds (is it the right word?) were also fragile on those GPUs. Once they overheated too much, they become very buggy.

I only understood my problem was overheating (black screen, buggy sound and no trace in event viewer) when I launched SpeedFan before playing and it was saving logs every 10 seconds. Otherwise, I wouldn't have saw that as well because after resetting the computer, temperatures lowers very quickly...
Anyway, I hope it's not the GPU that is already damaged, I have very few confidence about the "oven trick" to solve this (even if a few friends did this successfully)...[/color]

i think the word youre looking for is solder, as in the solder balls underneath the gpu.