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Green Lines Everywhere!

Craig1981

Craig1981

Craig1981

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I don't know if this is a graphics card or monitor problem, but when I got up this morning and switched on the PC this is what I was greeted with...

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The resolution has changed and the screen is full of constantly changing green lines. I've tried restarting the PC but it doesn't go away. Is my PC fried? Is it software related? Is it fixable? :(
 
I would think the video card is dying. It might be worth making sure the monitor cable is secure, but I've usually found this sort of banding to be a video card issue.

I don't think x58 has onboard graphics unfortunately.
 
This is a GPU issue. You card may have a memory issue or a micro fissure on the main board.

Back in the day my 8800GTX card did this so i baked it. The card was out of warranty and i had nothing to loose.

I simply removed all the plastic casing like the fans and then removed all the thermal paste and thermal pads from the memory.

I then set the oven to 190 degrees and placed the main board with the chip facing up on top of some rolled up pieces of tin foil on a flat baking tray.

I then put the card in the oven for no more than 8 minutes. If you put the card in for longer you may heat the solder so much bits fall off the cards PCB. You dont ant that happening.

After that i put the card back together (obviously reapplying the thermal paste and pads) and put it back in the PC. Hey presto the thing worked perfectly for another couple of years until i sold it.
 
RIP card. Last time I had anything like that, the GPU died before the next-day replacement arrived :/

On another note, your cluttered desktop hurts my OCD :(
 
Cluttered desktop, Divx Movies, Utorrent, multiple anti virus software, winzip... No wonder the poor thing died :p
 
My 7950 died with this artifacting on the weekend. I swear Forza Apex broke it, was running fine before this game locked up badly. Artifacting turned to black screens, could not load or install drivers and windows would not boot properly.

The only fix was a new gpu, I did not even attempt the oven trick lol
 
weyland yutani said:
My 7950 died with this artifacting on the weekend. I swear Forza Apex broke it, was running fine before this game locked up badly. Artifacting turned to black screens, could not load or install drivers and windows would not boot properly.

The only fix was a new gpu, I did not even attempt the oven trick lol
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Why the hell not? If t he card is fubar anyway then what has he got to loose. Seriously it works, im not just trolling here :)

edit: Sort those dam shortcuts out! If your desktop is in that state i dread to think what sort of state your hard drive is in ;) :)
 
the oven trick might give you a bit more life from it used to do that to an old 8800gt256mb its only a short term fix though not really worth the effort. to try lowering your memory speed just drop the mem slider in msi afterburner app again don't think that will work its new gpu time for ya
 
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