Driving Me Nuts! - Black Screen / Vertical Lines/Stripes

[xenoclix]

Hey all! Hope all is well and going better than me at the moment - bout to loose the last bit of my hair if i can't fix this little problem i am facing ;p. I have been at it for the past week or so...

Anyway!

Bout 2 months ago i purchased a 5870 - great card, love it. After that 2 months the screen went black and didnt turn on again even after reset (tried friends computer and same thing - loud fan noise aswell) - so i got it returned and replaced on the spot at my store.

New 5870 i put into computer, and different issue - i now get vertical lines after 1minute to 10minutes into play in various of games from Steam games, to MMOs.

This card was in my E6600/P5B CPU/Motherboard while i did upgrade yesterday aswell to a I7 950 and a P6X58D-E Motherboard and i still continue to get the lines.

I have done a couple of re formats of the computer what is running Win 7 Ult 64bit edition.

So i had a look on the forums, websites etc seeing what some fixes might work.

I have tried the various tweaks in the fan speeds, and so forth by downclocking and overclocking and no luck that i see. I have tried various drivers from the 9.1 beta, 10.1 hotfix, 10.10, and currently back to 10.11.

I have contacted Sapphire regarding this and what they said back is my sku - graphic card has the latest VBIOS - shouldn't be a problem with it.


That is annoying coz i cant claim RMA apparently and store i got it from saying its my computer and i have to deal with it or get a RMA from sapphire what i cant get.

In the meantime, is there anything else i can try and do to see if i can fix this problem?

I have tried working on this for the past several days and no luck, any help would be greatly appreciated!!

My current new specs below:

CPU: I7 950
MTB: ASUS P6X58D-E
Pwr: Antec TP-750 (750W) TruePower
RAM: G.SKILL 6GB KIT DDR3 RIPJAWS C8 1600MHZ
GPU: Sapphire HD 5870
OS: Win 7 Ult 64bit

Here are some stats of what i can think of showing you.

Some pics -

PSU

The Problem

 

[powelly]

hmm it could artifacting i would get it replaced again if i was looks like another cards gone dead on you

 

[RIZZEE]

I'm having the same problem, though it gives me bigger vertical lines and then it eventually freezes my machine and causes the boot time to go on for about 5 minutes before it even allows me to enter the bios though I have a 4870X2 but it's also by Sapphire.

I went back to 10.4 as it was the last driver I can remember that didn't give me any problems and it seems to be working fine, though I have had a few problems, you could try that

I've also ordered an RMA on it and hopefully I should be sending it out on Monday to be sure.

 

[theron]

The Problem
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This screen i saw for half a second before my 6870 died from overheating

 

[mmj_uk]

It's the ATI grey screen of death, if there's a deficiency in the GPU then having the latest VBIOS won't be of any help so I don't really understand Sapphire's argument.

If your last 5870 worked flawlessly then it's most likely this current card.

 

[Reldar]

I am also having this problem and it's really starting to grind my gears!

I have a Sapphire Vapor-X 5870 2gb.

 

[buttkinz]

I got that screen on last 2 ati cards when I overclocked the memory too far, have you tried doenclocking te memory or use a gpu memtester (can't hotlink to it as in hospital with iPhone )

 

[sunjoo2012]

this is why i switched to nvidia

 

[Abitar]

this is why i switched to nvidia

I use to get the same problem with an nvidia 260 playing certain games.