RMA'ing my gfx card?

Deiwos · 9 Mar 2007 at 17:55

So I have a 7900GT graphics card I bought from another company back in september. Periodically, I get an issue where my system locks up for a few seconds, a lot of pixels on the screen go blue/red/green, then the screen goes black, and flashes back up after a few seconds. When it comes back, moving mouse/keyboard make it go black again and basically continues doing this until I reboot.

Secondly, I have bizarre graphical issues when playing WoW (not tested in other games). Quite often the game flickers in all sorts of places, I get textures doing all sorts of funny things like going big and blocky, or all white, or spiky. Additionally, I sometimes find long lines extended high into the sky protuding from random objects, NPCs, Players, and even my own character.

I think it's my gfx card, and I'm tempted to buy a new one and RMA this one.

Any thoughts/opinions?

masslac · 9 Mar 2007 at 17:57

Check your temps and also make sure you have the latest drivers.

Deiwos · 9 Mar 2007 at 20:50

masslac said:
Check your temps and also make sure you have the latest drivers.

Temps are fine (55ish when gaming) and drivers are up to date.

Any clues folks?

dun · 9 Mar 2007 at 22:58

From what you have described, especially the colours, and "spikey" bits coming from npcs etc it sounds liek the graphics to me.

I take it you cant get hold of another card to test?

Deiwos · 9 Mar 2007 at 23:39

dun said:
From what you have described, especially the colours, and "spikey" bits coming from npcs etc it sounds liek the graphics to me.

I take it you cant get hold of another card to test?

Only if I bother to buy a new one. I think I might take the opportunity to buy a new GFX card and just try RMAing the card.