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Think my GPU might be dying

Rozzy85

Rozzy85

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Yesterday I suddenly started getting artifacts on the screen with my 290X. Lots of lines or random tears with bright colours, usually worst when watching a video. Sometimes it got bad until the entire screen was covered and the system froze up (picture here http://i65.tinypic.com/5cdlvm.jpg). The GPU isn't hot and it occurs even when at 36c but even when it gets hotter the artifacts do not increase in frequency. The hottest I've ever seen it at was around 90c but that was like a year ago due to the fan not spinning up enough. I suppose it could've damaged it and now it's caught up.

I've ran VMT and it found no memory errors. Played some Fallout 4 and it glitched once for a second but that was it, the game played fine otherwise.

My motherboard has a damaged PCI-E bus from a dodgy piece of hardware almost 2 years ago so to rule that out I have installed it into another working system. It works fine with the Standard windows VGA driver until I install the Radeon/Crimson drivers. The system boots and the Starting windows animation plays but once it gets to the login screen the system hangs and the screen remains blank. It either sits there indefinitely or it restarts itself after a few minutes. I then have to uninstall the drivers to get Windows to start again.

I was hoping it was the motherboard since that was already damaged but it looks like it's the GPU. Is there anything else I can try before I attempt an RMA?
 
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If you can RMA it i wouldnt waste time on it tbh. You ve tried it in another system so GPU seems to be going bad. You could always clean pci connector on the card but seems like its memory is going bad.
 
It appears to be this issue, although I'm on Win 7: https://community.amd.com/thread/194634

I've read through it and it seems it's caused by a hardware fault and not the drivers so I guess it's had it. This is a VTX 3D card and they went bust. I've read that it's Powercolor that handle it now? I'm assuming I will have to go through the vendor as they have no UK contact from what I can see?
 
Several times on this other motherboard (X79 Sabertooth) as it was initially having problems detecting it. Windows was freshly installed also.
 
Hmm, then i can suggest following to rule them out as well while you are waiting for a rma reply.
- Wipe the pcix connector on the card
- Make sure graphic card is clean of dust particles incase they are causing some sort of shorting
- Make sure heatsink is seated properly
- If you have flashed a custom vbios flash your original vbios back.
 
I gave the connector a wipe with an IPA wipe and installed some really old catalyst drivers. Managed to get to the logon screen but there were black blocks everywhere and it crashed shortly after. Never flashed the BIOS or even overclocked the thing. The vendor got back to me pretty quick with instructions to send it back. Thanks for the help anyway though. Was hoping I could save it rather than go without a GPU for a while.
 
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