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Graphics card on the way out?
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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.
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.
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.
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.