Is my 1900XT Broke

[rubberduck]

Hi Just completed my system update and here is a description of what happened. I suspect the problem is my new Power colour x1900 xt.

I managed to get everything connected in my system and was able to perform a reinstall of windows and put on the relevant drivers. After this point I started to notice artifacts and colour flickering on the screen. I reset and went in to the bios to make sure all settings were ok, at this point text within the bios was garbled so I loaded up 'fail-safe' settings and turned off my computer. I checked that all cables were connected correctly within my computer and unplugged all none necessary resources to make sure it is not a PSU problem (I have a Tanger 530W PSU). Despite doing this whenever I turn my computer on all text/graphics are garbled, even thouigh it will boot in to windows.

So I suspect the problem is my graphics card.... I doubt it would be cpu/mobo (KN8 ultra with AMD x2 3800) or the system wouldn't post right? My crucial DDR400 memory has been tested in another system and I'm sure my PSU is fine.

Any thoughts?

 

[welshtom]

gfx is broken mate. without doubt.

Tom

 

[powned]

check the pcie power connection.. i was getting screen corruption and crashing and i found a burn mark on the plastic part that plugs into the back of the card. I replaced it with a new one and it seems fine.. worth checking i suppose

 

[rubberduck]

Thanks for the reply powned. What I did try is completly removing the PCIE power cable so that when the machine is turned on it displays the warning telling you to plug power in to the card.... when I did this it displayed the warning but it was also slightly garbled. This implies a problem with the card rather than the PSU. Right?

All advice appreciated.

Tim

 

[LoadsaMoney]

Id say the card is borked as well, RMA time.

Welcome to the forums btw.