Hey all, I wonder if you can help me. I need a second opinion on an strange issue I am having. I have the system in my sig with a AMD HD 7950 card, and the last 2 days I have noticed something strange.
At the moment it is at night only, I am in desktop when all of a sudden the monitor goes blank for a few seconds, display comes back, Aero disabled and the card is working hard with the fans spinning and temp goes from 39 degrees idle to 65, like something is accessing it.
Then after a few mins, the display goes blank again and the fans spin down to normal on the GPU and the temp drop back down nice, and the Aero is re-enabled and no issues. I've checked for viruses, all is clear with malware bytes and Avast.
I need an opinion as I am guessing that it could be software related, more than a failing GPU as surely it won't reset itself to normal if it was dying? and I can play graphic heavy games no problem with no artifacts or anything.
The only thing I can think of is that I upgraded my drives to 13.12 I think, the latest ones and it has been since then it has happened. Is there something in these drivers, options wise or anyone had any issues with the drivers as it is strange.
Thanks for any advice you can give.
At the moment it is at night only, I am in desktop when all of a sudden the monitor goes blank for a few seconds, display comes back, Aero disabled and the card is working hard with the fans spinning and temp goes from 39 degrees idle to 65, like something is accessing it.
Then after a few mins, the display goes blank again and the fans spin down to normal on the GPU and the temp drop back down nice, and the Aero is re-enabled and no issues. I've checked for viruses, all is clear with malware bytes and Avast.
I need an opinion as I am guessing that it could be software related, more than a failing GPU as surely it won't reset itself to normal if it was dying? and I can play graphic heavy games no problem with no artifacts or anything.
The only thing I can think of is that I upgraded my drives to 13.12 I think, the latest ones and it has been since then it has happened. Is there something in these drivers, options wise or anyone had any issues with the drivers as it is strange.
Thanks for any advice you can give.