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Somethings wrong with my graphics card

2013

2013

2013

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I purchased a used msi 280x graphics card, Ive been told its been lightly used for mining/

1. it would not detect the resolution even with the amd drivers installed, I had to download the monitor drivers.

2. two flickering lines pop before windows loads


3. the screen flickers

4. I've tried playing 2 games both crashed and Heaven Benchmark 4.0 crashed the PC and ive disabled the cpu overclock just to make sure.
 
First thing i always recommend is a complete driver removal and clean up and reinstall. I am assuming you have done that though right? Can you try the card in another machine? a friends rig perhaps. Mined cards are a bit of a lottery in my opinion and a lot is down to who you got from and how honest they were...
 
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1st did you solve resolution issue after monitor driver install or not ?
2nd uninstall nvidia drivers from your pc before you install AMD driver
3rd what other hardware you installed lately
4th google MSI Afterburner, read a guide how to use on display monitor, to see gpu temps, load, and fan speed.
to me from your posts your system is a mess, you change hardware and you dont uninstall driver nor install vendor drivers, so who knows how many conflicts you have.
if i were you i would uninstall all drivers, including motherboard, and reinstall everything and update the mobo bios.
easier way to check if it's driver related, is to create a new partition of your drive and do a clean windows install, and check if the new system is stable.
 
Uninstall drivers. Boot in to safe mode, run driver sweeper/ DDU. Analyse and clean all AMD and Nvidia files. Boot up normally, install AMD drivers. If it still doing the same after these steps, then it is most likely a hardware fault.
 
1st did you solve resolution issue after monitor driver install or not ?
>> Yes it worked after installing the monitor drivers, amd drivers did not do it
2nd uninstall nvidia drivers from your pc before you install AMD driver
>> I hadd to do this with Display Driver Uninstaller it would not do it normally.
3rd what other hardware you installed lately
>>Nothing, ive only changed the craphics
4th google MSI Afterburner, read a guide how to use on display monitor, to see gpu temps, load, and fan speed.
to me from your posts your system is a mess, you change hardware and you dont uninstall driver nor install vendor drivers, so who knows how many conflicts you have.
if i were you i would uninstall all drivers, including motherboard, and reinstall everything and update the mobo bios.
>> How do I do this safely
Im using the latest bios
easier way to check if it's driver related, is to create a new partition of your drive and do a clean windows install, and check if the new system is stable.
>>Ok
 
even with a fresh copy of windows and updated drivers it crashed.

so im assuming its the card that's at fault
 
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