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Is my poor 3870 comming to the end of its life?

Phil2008

Phil2008

Phil2008

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This has happened about 4 times in the last month, but restarting pc or going in and out of standby makes the screen better again. Screen has even messed up slightly in a non windows environment.

I have stressed cpu and gpu but everything seems fine, even my games run fine.

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ooh that looks nasty!
Looks like your GPU has some serious problems, have you recently updated any drivers or downloaded anything which may specifically use your GPU drivers?

Either your hardware or your drivers are messing up... I'd buy a new GPU, what temperatures does it give also during stress testing?
 
Emphacy said:
ooh that looks nasty!
Looks like your GPU has some serious problems, have you recently updated any drivers or downloaded anything which may specifically use your GPU drivers?

Either your hardware or your drivers are messing up... I'd buy a new GPU, what temperatures does it give also during stress testing?
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I havent touched any driver stuff since early November as I had to reinstall due to a new ssd drive. Ive done 2 image restores in the past month, but the images has been of my windows install when it was freshly done

My temps are fine, same as they where 4yrs ago when I bought the card, the low 90s running furmark or in the 60s-70s when gaming. But about 6 months ago I had to replace the paste. as the card's temp was going over the 110c mark when stressing.
 
Phil2008 said:
I havent touched any driver stuff since early November as I had to reinstall due to a new ssd drive. Ive done 2 image restores in the past month, but the images has been of my windows install when it was freshly done

My temps are fine, same as they where 4yrs ago when I bought the card, the low 90s running furmark or in the 60s-70s when gaming. But about 6 months ago I had to replace the paste. as the card's temp was going over the 110c mark when stressing.
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Looks like a new GPU it is then... I think a nice HD 5850 would fit nicely in with the rest of your system! :P
 
ARGHHHHH, its not the gpu, as it happened again yesterday and just now with new 6950. But when it happened just now, the screen was flashing real fast displaying a solid colour and every few secs the colour would change.

When it happens this doesn't effect the workings of the pc, as I was listening to music at the time, and that wasn't effected. Also when I sleep the pc and bring it back out of sleep everything is fine and as I left it before screen messed up.

Any ideas guys, as we can rule out the gpu?
 
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If as you said above that it does this even in non-windows enviornment, it would eliminate software and indicate a hardware issue so you can skip right over the software tests. You'll need to do some basic trouble shooting. Check the the monitor cable, monitor, keyboard and mouse first.

If they are OK you'll need to move on to the box. This is one of those times when you need to strip the system down to the bare essentials (remove ALL hardware not required to boot) and monitor from there. If problem persists you can narrow it down to the components in use, MB, RAM, PSU, to test in another system. Problem gone, add hardware until problem reappears.

Sometimes this is what it takes. Good Luck.
 
bells said:
Motherboard or ram ?
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yeah thats what Im thinking or psu, but if it was memory or motherboard, windows would mess up too, not just the screen.

Its jus odd that its been fine like for 3months since changing gpu, then all of a sudden, its raised its ugly head again.

metalmackey said:
Monitor or dodgy monitor cable?
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I will change the cable tomorrow and might also remove all cards and memory and reseat them as most of the stuff in my pc hasn't been touched for 3yrs since I built it.
 
Phil2008 said:
yeah thats what Im thinking or psu, but if it was memory or motherboard, windows would mess up too, not just the screen.
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Not necessarily.


You really should start at the start making no predeterminations and systematically test each piece as I said above. A random swapping of parts can sometimes work but usually takes more time and money.
 
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TropicLightning said:
If as you said above that it does this even in non-windows enviornment, it would eliminate software and indicate a hardware issue so you can skip right over the software tests. You'll need to do some basic trouble shooting. Check the the monitor cable, monitor, keyboard and mouse first.

If they are OK you'll need to move on to the box. This is one of those times when you need to strip the system down to the bare essentials (remove ALL hardware not required to boot) and monitor from there. If problem persists you can narrow it down to the components in use, MB, RAM, PSU, to test in another system. Problem gone, add hardware until problem reappears.

Sometimes this is what it takes. Good Luck.
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The prob is, it might happen, again tomorrow, next week or in 3months time:mad:
 
if your system is overclocked then that could also contribute to the problem. on your p35 chipset board going beyond 400mhz on the fsb could cause a range of issues exspecially if your pushing your ram out of spec too.
 
Also I haven't needed to reboot pc during its 2 fits, just put pc to sleep and wake it up and screen is fine once again..

Infact I haven't rebooted or shut pc down in about 4days, I just use sleep.
 
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