Atifacting..... then ok

[Michaeljcox24]

Last night something happened to my 690 that worried me a lot. I had been out and came back to have a blast on Batman AO. When I booted up the rig, it posted, but then the screen went black before windows loaded.

Upon a reboot I had half a screen of red vertical lines, and on a 2nd reboot I had horizontal blue lines when I to get into the bios. The screen also intermittently went blank while I was doing this.

So I re seated the card, re seated the power cables the first time, and nothing changed. Tried a 2nd time, 3rd time, and eventually, the 4th time it booted ok and now I'm writing this post from the rig in question.

I have no idea what could cause it, I hadn't been messing with anything prior, infact I haven't opened up the rig since I put the card in it in Feb (it's w/c so I prefer not to mess too much)

Has anyone had a similar experience?

 

[ALXAndy]

I had the same thing with my GTX 280. Few days later it wouldn't boot with the drivers loaded at all.

Sounds not good mate, not good at all

 

[Michaeljcox24]

 

[ALXAndy]

Red lines usually indicate there are failed solder joints.

Can you RMA it?

 

[Michaeljcox24]

I will have to if it goes again dude. Crossing my fingers.

 

[pgi947]

Before you action an rma you'll need to see if you can replicate the fault.

I would recommend giving it some heaven/vally loops and see if it starts to go ape again, then you can tell the retailer what's happening and how to force the issue.

 

[Michaeljcox24]

for all intents and purposes, it seems totally fine now. I ran Valley on full for half hour soon as I got it back up and running and it didn't artifact one bit.

I am wondering if the weight of the water block has cracked a solder and in re seating I somehow closed up a crack somewhere.