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Could CPU-Z Have Killed my GFX Card?

BDEE

BDEE

BDEE

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OK, so I am upgrading and ordered a few new bits, so before I sell mine I thought I would install CPU-Z and take screen shots to show everything is working.

The next time I boot up, there are red and blue lines all over the screen and I get a BSOD everytime I try to load unless I am in safe mode.

Luckily I have SplashTop on my motherboard, so I am using that at the moment to get on tinternet, but have loads of red and blue lines all over.

It seems unlikely that running diagnositc software could cause a hardware issue, it is just too much of a coincidence as I have never had a problem with the card before and nothing else has been changed and I had not been in the case.

Is it possible it could have damaged it or is it more likely just to be one hell of a unlucky coincidence?
 
Got to be the biggest coincidence in the history of coincidences!

The STOP code is:

0x00000116

Which seems to be video card related.
 
No m8, or else we would all be banging on CPU-Z's Door. You should have used HWmonitor or Open monitor, they give you a lot of info on > CPU+GPU.
 
Coincidence. I advanced rma'd my 470, when the replacement card arrived and I had to ship the 470 back, it started artifacting half an hour before I was going to remove it.
 
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