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MSI R9 280X Full Screen Artifacts and crashes

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I was playing The Witcher 3 today when suddenly my screen started flickering with colours and the display was almost flashing to a certain colour pattern and then flashing back to the game screen during gameplay. I was really confused by this so I went off the game and uninstalled my drivers and installed older ones as I had recently updated to the new 15.5 beta driver. Unfortunately this did not work and the game still did this horrible artifacting.

It got to the point that when I rebooted the pc would boot and show everything on screen until Windows had loaded and then the screen went black and you couldn't do anything but restart the computer. The computer then booted into recovery and I had to remove all drivers in safe mode. Then when I reboot and install all the drivers again it still doesn't work and I get artifacting when browsing the web. I noticed the artifacting is worse on chrome and it's when animations are happening on the screen.

Another point to note is that I tried underclocking my card and when I underclocked the memory frequency, the screen instantly changed to a dark colour pattern and I couldn't do anything so I had to restart. The card is not overheating in any way and is sitting at a solid 40 degrees.

ANY HELP IS GREATLY APPRECIATED! Thanks

here is an example of the artifacting
 
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imo... its fried :( but hey you can get a Brand New one exactly the same but just says 380X on the box instead ;)

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did i say exactly the same? i meant different color!
 
do u use afterburner? if u update drivers it screws over after burner and puts like +1000mhz on the core, which causes these kind of symptoms,
 
Try a different cable from the card to monitor.

Try reseating the card if that doesn't work.

Try running it at higher voltage. (Don't overdo that and use it as last resort)

I don't think it is necessarily dead, it could be a factor of other things that you should look at first.
 
It might seem like I am pointing out the obvious, but you have tried games other than Witcher 3 just to make sure right?

Also to added to the post above me, trying different cable aside, you could try other port or connection? If it is only a faulty port, you can probably keep going using another that still works.
 
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