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4850 artifacts, DOA?

The_blue

The_blue

The_blue

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Yestersday i got my new prebuilt system and on 1st boot it had orange stripes accross the boot screen.

This went after a reboot but keeps randomly coming back on reboot, sometimes with a background of dots :(


Is there anything worth trying or just RMA the lot?
 
Is it only doing it on boot up? Or are you having problems in windows or playing games?

If not then I wouldnt worry, try stressing the GPU with Furmark or Crysis (if you have it)

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I wouldn't fancy that. Every time ive had that its been faulty Ram on the video card - those kind of symptoms are usually for me the first sign of RMA time.

just my experience, but id return that card asap
 
Yeah, i'm leaning that way. Just spent hours getting the OS on and drivers, games software etc on it :(. It's a bare bones system.

I wonder if i can just send the card back and not the system?
 
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Stuck with that all the time now and a blue screen that mentions ATI drivers when loading vista..

Just rang OcUK and no one in to speak to, try again monday :(
 
Does it happen with both DVI connectors? I'd double check it's not the cable or converters if you are using any.

But it does sound like a faulty card. Like above though, run a ram test to be certain, memtest86+ is ok for a quick test.
 
Speed said:
Does it happen with both DVI connectors? I'd double check it's not the cable or converters if you are using any.

But it does sound like a faulty card. Like above though, run a ram test to be certain, memtest86+ is ok for a quick test.
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Happens on both connectors, dosn't happen on old machine sat next to it.


Can't boot into windows now as it throwing up BSOD GFX driver errors.
 
The_blue said:
Happens on both connectors, dosn't happen on old machine sat next to it.


Can't boot into windows now as it throwing up BSOD GFX driver errors.
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To test the ram you don't need to be in Windows, just burn a cd on another Pc and boot from it.
 
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