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monitor goes black after a short of period of playing games

Alright, just changed the power to 20%. Hopefully your guess magically fixes everything, I'll play far cry or something and see if it changes anything.

Also yeah I could probably do that, I'll have a go, although to be honest if that turned out to be my only option I think I'd rather return it :D

Is there definitely no other way to change the voltage?
 
I have swapped mine and my sons graphics cards over and he has been playing borderlands 2 all day whereas I got 10 minutes into CS GO before screen went black and wouldn't respond so I'm assuming it's the card in our instance.
 
prettyboyfloyd said:
I have swapped mine and my sons graphics cards over and he has been playing borderlands 2 all day whereas I got 10 minutes into CS GO before screen went black and wouldn't respond so I'm assuming it's the card in our instance.
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Just out of interest what drivers are you using?
 
Alright I read somewhere that there was a file in the older drivers that was removed so I was suggested to download and older one before updating instead of doing a clean install.

I did, opened trixxx and the voltage control is now there! The power control is also there whereas it was not beforehand.

I increased it by 6 and tried to play far cry 3 but it crashed after a few minutes, probably the quickest it's ever done actually. not sure if this is coincidence and I should increase it again or this is telling me that I should stop?
 
nathan ellis said:
Alright, just changed the power to 20%. Hopefully your guess magically fixes everything, I'll play far cry or something and see if it changes anything.

Also yeah I could probably do that, I'll have a go, although to be honest if that turned out to be my only option I think I'd rather return it :D

Is there definitely no other way to change the voltage?
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Not without voiding your warranty :(

Lowering the clocks is just to try and determine if it's the card that's faulty :)
 
Ithink it's definitely the gpu as I had no problems when I swapped it out for another older card.

Underclocked it anyway and things seem to be working, I'll let you know though.

Also, I increased the voltage from 1038 to 1044, and it crashed within several minutes whilst playing far cry 3. I then increased it to 1050v, and it crashed basically a minute into the beginning cutscene. Now I'm really confused!

Should I try increasing it by even smaller increments?
 
is it still locking up then? i havnt read since i last posted,check in gpu-z load that app twice and look in the sensor tab for gpu voltage and then strss the card by clicking the ? next to the pci speed and see how much load voltage is for the card

you shouldnt have to mess with gpu voltage if its stock or mildly overclocked

next id check your pc's memory and try the latest final or beta motherboard bios,try setting the display to peg in the bios rather than auto,see if that has any affect


that voltage seems abit low unless you have a golden card,i would use 1.138v which is the usual voltage
 
if youve been using trixx and pressed default in it,it will reset the gpu voltage to below what it normally is,it does this with my card it sets it a good 1v lower than what it should be so you need to make a note of the stock gpu voltage before you mess with trixx,problem is now youve used it you wont know what the stock v is untill you do a clean install of windows or ati drivers

try with 1.138v ive had a few 7850's that used that voltage at stock,with defaults in trixx it would set my voltage to 1.075v which was too low and it would hard lock in games with multi coloured screens ect
 
prettyboyfloyd said:
Bought it October but was for Xmas so he has only been using it since then
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If his card does not work as it should in his machine but yours does, while his card also does not work in your machine.....

Its a pretty same bet his card is the culprit.
Thats a real shame, sadly i bet that bust his Christmas bubble, and yours :(

Is it a Gigabyte?
 
humbug said:
If his card does not work as it should in his machine but yours does, while his card also does not work in your machine.....

Its a pretty same bet his card is the culprit.
Thats a real shame, sadly i bet that bust his Christmas bubble, and yours :(

Is it a Gigabyte?
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Its a gigabyte windforce.
It was a bit of a pain yeah he was stressed yesterday which had me stressed but now he is happy using mine.
Customer services said it would be sent back to gigabyte for repair or replacement but I have just asked for refund and ordered a new card today.
Hopefully that will come tomorrow and I won't be out of action for too long
 
prettyboyfloyd said:
Its a gigabyte windforce.
It was a bit of a pain yeah he was stressed yesterday which had me stressed but now he is happy using mine.
Customer services said it would be sent back to gigabyte for repair or replacement but I have just asked for refund and ordered a new card today.
Hopefully that will come tomorrow and I won't be out of action for too long
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now he is happy using mine
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Yeah i bet he is, hehe...

Customer services said it would be sent back to gigabyte for repair or replacement but I have just asked for refund and ordered a new card today.
Hopefully that will come tomorrow and I won't be out of action for too long
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Ah... well thats ok, it would have taken longer to RMA, even with Gigabyte having UK RMA.

What card did you replace it with? 'i think' OCUK deal with MSI RMA directly.
 
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