5850 Help?

[Samueltastic]

Hey, had my 5850 for around 3 months now and for the past couple weeks ive had random lock ups and when windows starts up random blotches on the screen like bellow. (sorry phone quality)



I replaced it with my old 3450 and havent had a problem since. So I'm fairly sure its died but wanted a second opinion.

Cheers

 

[Samueltastic]

Hey sorry nope had no problesm before when it started to do the blotches etc updated to latest drivers and still happend.

Spec;
I5 at 2.67Ghz
msi-p55gd65
ggripjaw 1600
ocz 700w modular
5850 at stock speeds

 

[Samueltastic]

you could try booting in to safe mode to rule out driver problems. Also make sure your PSU is up to the task..

If those blotches are there as soon as you turn on the pc then it's RMA time..

Yeah as soon as it gets to loading windows it does it 90% of the time. loads into windows fine for a bit then will flash up and freeze or picture will become really fuzzy. Rma then?

 

[Samueltastic]

I dont have another computer to try it in, I built one for my girlfriend but it only has a 400W psu. That enough?

 

[Samueltastic]

400 probably not...although it might squeeze in. It depends on what else you have running off it

Just a duel core, amd 2 gig of ram, 250gig HDD and a Dvd/RW