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Graphics card on the way out?
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I would think so.
As that's a screenshot the GPU is rendering artifact, thus in screenshot. If screenshot was clean of artifact then it would be screen.
You've checked cables, etc are all seated correctly? I'd also just remove the card and give it a clean with air and also say mobo and reseat, retest GFX card. Another check would be remove drivers, run DDU, reinstall driver and see if all AOK.
As that's a screenshot the GPU is rendering artifact, thus in screenshot. If screenshot was clean of artifact then it would be screen.
You've checked cables, etc are all seated correctly? I'd also just remove the card and give it a clean with air and also say mobo and reseat, retest GFX card. Another check would be remove drivers, run DDU, reinstall driver and see if all AOK.
I've removed the card and gave it a good clean last night when I had a crash followed by artifacting while playing subnautica. It then behaved all day with general desktop usage until I decided to give msi kombuster a whirl. After a couple of mins I got some screen flickering followed by the artifacting in the image above. Temps appear to be fine (27c idle 63c load) so I doubt that is any problem.
Will give that a go tomorrow. Pretty sure this motherboard has on board video.
If it's not the graphics card what should I next be looking at? PSU? It is getting a little old now but it's been sold as a rock all this time. Even had it in my previous build before my current.
Try giving the card more voltage using MSI Afterburner. Sometimes ageing capacitors can cause poor voltage rails.
You mad using the kombuster.....
Because the Core temps are fine doesn't mean the VRAM ones are also.
Did you try to run the system without the graphic card but with the IGP?
Did you try different cable?
Have you tried to run the card at constant fan speed at around 90%-100%, is the issue there?
If not, I would advice you first to remove the cooler, give the whole lot a good clean and put fresh paste (good paste like kryonaut) and fresh thermal pads for vram etc
If the issue appeared when running the card at 100% fan speed, and you gave it also some more power via the MSI Afterburner, then you are for a new card
OMG
, kombustor / furmark / OCCT I wouldn't run on a newer GPU let alone an older card. I reckon kombustor sealed it's fate .If you think it's the PSU I'll would use a multimeter to check voltages are ok. Next step would be try another known good PSU in rig.
3 secs of it wouldn't killed it TBH. Kombustor / Furmark / OCCT just places excessive load on GPU VRM IIRC, through how they load GPU. IIRC driver should see it as a "Power virus" and make sure GPU doesn't go to max loading.
Perhaps it was just one of those things if the GFX card has now been confirmed as being at fault.
Perhaps it was just one of those things if the GFX card has now been confirmed as being at fault.
Few other notes while I'm trying my best to test this while being constantly interrupted...
The artifacts are intermittent, but once they start them seem to hang around more often than not.
I've had a few occasions of the entire screen going a solid colour. Grey, light blue etc.
Artifacts have been seen on BIOS logo screen and in the UEFI.
I've had one occasion of simply losing signal to my monitor altogether.
The artifacts are intermittent, but once they start them seem to hang around more often than not.
I've had a few occasions of the entire screen going a solid colour. Grey, light blue etc.
Artifacts have been seen on BIOS logo screen and in the UEFI.
I've had one occasion of simply losing signal to my monitor altogether.
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Have you tried another cable?
Disable UEFI and boot in legacy mode. Some old motherboards have some compatibility issues with the 480 causing black/corrupt screens.
Update to latest BIOS if you haven't already.
You haven't come back with the results of things we asked to do.
Like did you test the IGP?
Sorry for the delay. Rushing around like a bit of a headless chicken today.
Changing the cable was one of the first things I did. Swapping from DVI to HDMI as well and have had zero issues today but I haven't actually stressed the card too much.
Going to load up a game or two shortly too see how things are. Wish me luck.
Changing the cable was one of the first things I did. Swapping from DVI to HDMI as well and have had zero issues today but I haven't actually stressed the card too much.
Going to load up a game or two shortly too see how things are. Wish me luck.
Sorry for the delay. Rushing around like a bit of a headless chicken today.
Changing the cable was one of the first things I did. Swapping from DVI to HDMI as well and have had zero issues today but I haven't actually stressed the card too much.
Going to load up a game or two shortly too see how things are. Wish me luck.
We wish you luck
Fired up a simple game last night (Team Fortress 2) and apart from some flickering on the menu I didn't have any other issues until I tried to exit the game. Left me with a blank screen and unable to get back to desktop. Couldn't get to task manager or anything. Went back to DVI and no issues. Left the game running for about 60 seconds and zero issues.
Back up today and just had a few artifacts on viewing a website, switching between tabs cleared the issue.
I've raised the volts slightly and dropped the memory speed by 100mhz. This hasn't helped.
Also just noticed that the card had randomly stopped sending info to MSI afterburner. Restarting seems to have fixed it.
Will try more things later once I'm home.
Back up today and just had a few artifacts on viewing a website, switching between tabs cleared the issue.
I've raised the volts slightly and dropped the memory speed by 100mhz. This hasn't helped.
Also just noticed that the card had randomly stopped sending info to MSI afterburner. Restarting seems to have fixed it.
Will try more things later once I'm home.
Prior to OS/driver loading the GPU is not fully active, so if your getting artifacts/issues when mobo is posting/in UEFI then to me defo GPU is faulty.