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I am looking to find out if my video card (XFX HD7950 DD) is faulty. We use Ultra-X diagnostics in work and I may run them on my system if I am permitted.
On boot, at the Windows loading screen, the monitor flickers a couple of times without fail, it is never the full display, just small portions, lines generally in the same place on the screen, then I go into Windows as normal. I recorded this but it is VERY hard to see due to a mixture of my phones camera not being great and YouTube compression being an absolute joke... If you decide to look, concentrate hard from 0:14 onwards... well done if you manage to see it! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IAnGNQ7yp0E
Also when in Windows, occasionally, (not often, some days it doesn't, sometimes is okay for a few days) the screen will flicker in a similar fashion to the flicker when at the Windows boot screen, ONCE I think have seen it happen on the entire display, but in all honesty I was high at the time and I don't know if it could have been some sort of visual, me seeing things.
I have NEVER seen any form of artifact while playing a game, my card has been OC'd in the past, but not by very much at all, never more than 10% and it has been at clock for 2 months now... Strange that this only seems to happen when idle and handling 2D?
I'm hoping it isn't faulty, but I have a feeling it is I really don't want to return this to XFX, I hear all of these manufacturers have b******t customer service and have a feeling they will return the same card claiming it's not faulty, send something damaged, send a different item or something... I purchased from an online retailer whom I cannot disclose on here. I've heard they like to fob people off with "We don't offer a warranty in the EU, you have to contact the retailer"... this is a load of ********, right? because they are providing product in the UK/EU, they are bound to the SOGA, correct?
On the other hand it doesn't really cause issues, never crashed and runs really really well... in a way, I could make do, but is that a good idea?
Thanks for the help guys.
On boot, at the Windows loading screen, the monitor flickers a couple of times without fail, it is never the full display, just small portions, lines generally in the same place on the screen, then I go into Windows as normal. I recorded this but it is VERY hard to see due to a mixture of my phones camera not being great and YouTube compression being an absolute joke... If you decide to look, concentrate hard from 0:14 onwards... well done if you manage to see it! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IAnGNQ7yp0E
Also when in Windows, occasionally, (not often, some days it doesn't, sometimes is okay for a few days) the screen will flicker in a similar fashion to the flicker when at the Windows boot screen, ONCE I think have seen it happen on the entire display, but in all honesty I was high at the time and I don't know if it could have been some sort of visual, me seeing things.
I have NEVER seen any form of artifact while playing a game, my card has been OC'd in the past, but not by very much at all, never more than 10% and it has been at clock for 2 months now... Strange that this only seems to happen when idle and handling 2D?
I'm hoping it isn't faulty, but I have a feeling it is I really don't want to return this to XFX, I hear all of these manufacturers have b******t customer service and have a feeling they will return the same card claiming it's not faulty, send something damaged, send a different item or something... I purchased from an online retailer whom I cannot disclose on here. I've heard they like to fob people off with "We don't offer a warranty in the EU, you have to contact the retailer"... this is a load of ********, right? because they are providing product in the UK/EU, they are bound to the SOGA, correct?
On the other hand it doesn't really cause issues, never crashed and runs really really well... in a way, I could make do, but is that a good idea?
Thanks for the help guys.
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