Help needed, Please!

[andy3457]

Ok let me start of by saying this is the card I have...
http://www.asus.com/Graphics_Cards/AMD_Series/EAH6970_DCII2DI4S2GD5/

Ok, the problem I seem to be having is with ALL games I try...:/
Anywhere from after 10 mins of playing or 1 hour of playing the grphics will randomly start turning green and red and blue and the sound goes all crackly?
And then the pictures goes all like... Squiggly? lol :/ and then the games always close and then when I get to my desktop its just as bad, I open up google chrome/firefox or anything it all seems to have graphical problems :/ like the whole thing just messes up...I don't really know how to describe it...
Hopefully you guys can get a understand what I mean from that...

I've only had this card for like 1 month...Just incase you needed to know and these are my system specs...

- Power Supply: OCZ ZS 650w PSU
- CPU: AMD Athlon II X4 Quad Core 640 3.00Ghz overclocked to 3.60Ghz
- Motherboard: AMD 990FX DDR3 Motherboard
- Cooler: OcUK H2 Flo Cooler
- RAM: 8GB DDR3 1600MHz
- Hard Drive: 500GB HDD
- Graphics Card: AMD Radeon HD 6970 2GB GDDR5
- Sound: 7.1 Channel Sound (On-Board)
- Optical Drive: LG DVD+/-RW SATA Drive
- Operating system: Windows Ultimate 64-bit
- All Drivers installed and up to date...

Thanks a lot for reading and thanks in advance for helping,

Andy.

 

[MissChief]

Sounds like the card is overheating. Get Afterburner running and see what your graphics temps are like. What about your case and cooling fans?

 

[andy3457]

Ok well afterburner is saying between 31 and 37 at idle? :/
Will try in game soon too...Bare in mind that I'm also running all my games on low to try to make it stop doing this too and still not working!
I've got one fan on top blowing out, Two on front sucking in and one fan blowing out the back too, Seems well ventilated... No fans are covered either, Sorry I can't give specific speeds of fans and such, I'm not a computer genius :/ (sorry about that)

Also to get to see what I just seen after the game did it again...go to this picture, This is wat my google chrome looked like when I tried to open this page! :/
(hope it helps really want to get this fixed!)

http://i44.tinypic.com/154wznl.png

Thanks in advance,

Andy

 

[StonedPenguin]

It loosk faulty, I'd think about an RMA for the video card.

 

[andy3457]

It loosk faulty, I'd think about an RMA for the video card.

In game I was getting a max temp of 53...?

And and RMA is going to mean me sending them back the card and getting a new one back?... Because that's going to cost me money....-.-

 

[StonedPenguin]

Put some screenshots up of the game problems ('the lines and what not you speak of)

Temps arnt the issue, It sounds like faulty VRAM to me.

 

[andy3457]

It's impossible to get the pictures of what it does in game because it only does it for like a split second then just shuts down the game...:/ its totally messed and doing my head in...Don't tell me I have to spend more money on a card...That will be £300 down the drain...

 

[tommybhoy]

That will be £300 down the drain...

If it's faulty it won't be, it will be replaced.

 

[rolypolyman]

Do the basic checks first, check cables are all securely fixed (power cables, monitor cable, psu ). Check graphics card is seated securely. Any overclocks running, if so go back to stock settings. Run card in another computer (if possible )see how it goes. If all the basic checks come up with nothing, then maybe consider a faulty card and Rma.

 

[Vespasian777]

Do the basic checks first, check cables are all securely fixed (power cables, monitor cable, psu ). Check graphics card is seated securely. Any overclocks running, if so go back to stock settings. Run card in another computer (if possible )see how it goes). if all the basic checks come up with nothing, then maybe consider a faulty card and Rma.

+1

 

[andy3457]

Do the basic checks first, check cables are all securely fixed (power cables, monitor cable, psu ). Check graphics card is seated securely. Any overclocks running, if so go back to stock settings. Run card in another computer (if possible )see how it goes. If all the basic checks come up with nothing, then maybe consider a faulty card and Rma.

just done this, Will get back later with results...need to go out for now, Thanks everyone for help.

Andy.