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Is my graphic card stuffed?

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I recently got a new gfx card and it was playing up for a few weeks. Some guy messed around with some settings on MSI afterburner and it was okay. I then deleted afterburner as I thought it was causing slow wifi speeds... I re-installed it now my gfx are going insane when gaming. I tried getting pictures, but wasn't really showing up on the print screen. It flashes like a strobe light and the image breaks up like a smashed pane of glass. Other times it goes all pixellated. When I spoke to the seller before it said it sounds like it was being overclocked, but I have no idea what this even means or how I would do that.

Any help would be appreciated.
 
You might have an overclocked profile that's being loaded up with Afterburner. Try uninstalling afterburner again and make sure you select to not save any profiles. After reboot, your card should revert to normal speeds.

Worth a try.....
 
Afterburner has no affect on internet speeds or anything of the sort. It can't do anything unless you run the program, normally it won't run at start-up, but you can make it do that by ticking a box. All it does is allow for GPU overclocks and provide benchmarks, you might have had your card set on unstable settings.

Re-install Afterburner and revert to default settings. This is easily done by the reset button, right next to the settings button. If not, then manually move the sliders until you get the below settings. But you shouldn't need to, the reset button resets any overclocking. Make sure the program doesn't start-up on boot, you don't need it. Even if overclocking, the overclocking settings can be saved and set to always run that way on boot. Which it sounds like it currently is.

You'll know it's reset because the bars will be on the folowing settings:
Core Voltage = +0
Power limit = 100
Core Clock = +0
Memory Clock = +0
Fan Speed = Auto

In all honesty, you shouldn't let folks mess about with your settings, especially if you don't know what it does or if they don't bother explaining it to you.

You can ask and find out about overclocking much better in the owners thread for the respective GPU or the Overclocking and Cooling section of the forum. Retailers are not always going to help you out if your card gets busted from overclocking, cards are always sold at stable settings and any further adjustments are the responsibility of the user.

It is also possible that you got a dodgy card in the first place, in which case you should have contacted the retailer first and not this random person who 'messed around with settings in MSI Afterburner'. They'd usually help you go through RMA and/or get a refund/replacement.
 
Afterburner has no affect on internet speeds or anything of the sort. It can't do anything unless you run the program, normally it won't run at start-up, but you can make it do that by ticking a box. All it does is allow for GPU overclocks and provide benchmarks, you might have had your card set on unstable settings.

Re-install Afterburner and revert to default settings. This is easily done by the reset button, right next to the settings button. If not, then manually move the sliders until you get the below settings. But you shouldn't need to, the reset button resets any overclocking. Make sure the program doesn't start-up on boot, you don't need it. Even if overclocking, the overclocking settings can be saved and set to always run that way on boot. Which it sounds like it currently is.

You'll know it's reset because the bars will be on the folowing settings:
Core Voltage = +0
Power limit = 100
Core Clock = +0
Memory Clock = +0
Fan Speed = Auto

In all honesty, you shouldn't let folks mess about with your settings, especially if you don't know what it does or if they don't bother explaining it to you.

You can ask and find out about overclocking much better in the owners thread for the respective GPU or the Overclocking and Cooling section of the forum. Retailers are not always going to help you out if your card gets busted from overclocking, cards are always sold at stable settings and any further adjustments are the responsibility of the user.

It is also possible that you got a dodgy card in the first place, in which case you should have contacted the retailer first and not this random person who 'messed around with settings in MSI Afterburner'. They'd usually help you go through RMA and/or get a refund/replacement.

+1

Try that it does sound like a possible profile is getting loaded up with afterburner. Its happend to me before when ive uninstalled afterbuner but the settings/profiles have remained on my computer.

I wouldn't let anyone touch my overclock settings on my computer. Possibly 8pac! But that's it as i have mine at sweet spots. But even still if i didn't know how to overclock i wouldn't let some one do it for me because if something goes wrong you have no idea whats causing it or how to rectify it. Either way try the above which mahius said make sure afterburner has those settings if not just dial them down to the above hit apply/tick and then make sure to save over the profile.
 
Apologies, that 'random guy' was the dude I bought it off. He's a seller on a particular auction website with thousands of feedback.
 
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