green screen on startup

[Ebisu]

Hi,

For the past 3 days whenever I turn my computer on I get a green screen instead of the login screen, once it was red. I have to force a shut down as the restart button doesn't work.

The second time I boot up everything seems to work fine, I turn the pc off at night and it happens again.

I took a picture of it:http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/337/20120328124431.jpg/

Any ideas what can cause this?

My system is:

Windows 7 64
GTX280
8gb mushkin
Msi p67a-gd53
i5 2500k

thanks,

 

[Van Diemen]

Looks like your card is dead

 

[ALXAndy]

Yup, borked.

I got this when the drivers stopped the fan.

Rebooted to this.

And this.

And this.

But that was game over. I could boot in safe mode with no driver loaded though.

Oddly enough mine was also a 280. Failure rate in later life on them is enormous due to them running far too hot for ROHS lead free solder to handle.

 

[ALXAndy]

What causes it is heat. Basically as the card heats up it expands. As it cools down it contracts. See pics.

And then in the end.

 

[HazardO]

I'd give the oven trick a go, you've got nothing to lose.