Weird pattern

Game · 13 Jul 2023 at 09:24

when I boot into windows as it goes from my loading screen to desktop for a split second I get a weird multi colour strip across the screen

looks like its make up of little boxes like a test page maybe started a few weeks back but noticed it was larger today about two inches across the screen

any ideas ? been getting the odd freeze in games as well was thinking that is heat related but runs fine if I turn avast of or seems to

Rx6700xt

throwaway4372 · 13 Jul 2023 at 09:43

Sounds like artifacting from dead vram. Usually means vram overheated. Not fixable.

There's an outside chance of a dodgy driver or monitor cable.

Game · 13 Jul 2023 at 09:54

need to check what the warranty is on the sapphire nitro + rx6700xt

Order Date: 29.03.2021 from OC but have a sinking feeling it might only be two years

TrojanWhore · 13 Jul 2023 at 10:01

Game said:
need to check what the warranty is on the sapphire nitro + rx6700xt

Order Date: 29.03.2021 from OC but have a sinking feeling it might only be two years

Current listing shows 3

Sapphire Radeon RX 6700 XT Nitro Gaming OC 12GB GDDR6 PCI-Express Graphics Card

Order Sapphire Radeon RX 6700 XT Nitro Gaming OC 12GB GDDR6 PCI-Express Graphics Card now online and benefit from fast delivery.

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Game · 13 Jul 2023 at 10:22

Think I will try a fresh windows install and see how that rolls first have time to play with

its been on for over two years and could be dodgy drivers

Support also suggested trying this first

TrojanWhore · 13 Jul 2023 at 14:23

@Game Yeah it would definitely be preferable to rule that out first, especially if you have a spare SSD you can test on (so you can revert to your existing install after an issue is confirmed, assuming you would want to!)

Make sure you put the card under some decent load when testing, such as 3d mark/unigine on loop, or a very demanding game (something that keeps the card at 99-100% utilisation) for a couple of hours minimum

Game · 13 Jul 2023 at 16:31

TrojanWhore said:
@Game Yeah it would definitely be preferable to rule that out first, especially if you have a spare SSD you can test on (so you can revert to your existing install after an issue is confirmed, assuming you would want to!)

Make sure you put the card under some decent load when testing, such as 3d mark/unigine on loop, or a very demanding game (something that keeps the card at 99-100% utilisation) for a couple of hours minimum

it does give me a reason to buy a new 1tb m2 but I think a new install is well overdue either way boot times ect

Tetras · 13 Jul 2023 at 17:14

Game said:
when I boot into windows as it goes from my loading screen to desktop for a split second I get a weird multi colour strip across the screen

looks like its make up of little boxes like a test page maybe started a few weeks back but noticed it was larger today about two inches across the screen

any ideas ? been getting the odd freeze in games as well was thinking that is heat related but runs fine if I turn avast of or seems to

Rx6700xt

Do you have any kind of adapter between the card and the moihtor?

throwaway4372 · 13 Jul 2023 at 17:33

another thought: might be worth posting a picture, just to make sure we understand what it looks like

Game · 13 Jul 2023 at 19:33

throwaway4372 said:
another thought: might be worth posting a picture, just to make sure we understand what it looks like

was then in a process had to record it then find the exact frame

https://twitter.com/x/status/1679559561999425566

Game · 13 Jul 2023 at 19:34

think this will work its a split second so took some getting

Tetras · 13 Jul 2023 at 19:36

Game said:
think this will work its a split second so took some getting

One possibility is when the card switches power states, but I assume you're not doing any power/voltage tuning?

throwaway4372 · 13 Jul 2023 at 19:40

heh, not quite what I expected to see.

do you have another monitor you can try? or maybe connect with hdmi or whatever instead?

Game · 13 Jul 2023 at 19:43

throwaway4372 said:
heh, not quite what I expected to see.

Tetras said:

One possibility is when the card switches power states, but I assume you're not doing any power/voltage tuning?

Click to expand...

do have an old monitor in the garage , could try hdmi certain I have a cable somewhere

Game · 13 Jul 2023 at 19:44

default bios settings not changed power and voltage

Tetras · 13 Jul 2023 at 20:06

Game said:
default bios settings not changed power and voltage

The graphics card, I mean, can be through drivers or afterburner.

Game · 14 Jul 2023 at 07:23

ok then I might have resolved the weirdness did some trawling on tomshardware and reduced the windows refresh rate on the monitor down to 144hz this seems to have solved it on bootup

might also try a new display port cable , ordered a hdmi cable to try as well

will see how it goes in game

Game · 17 Jul 2023 at 18:49

stopped the crashes now had my i5-10400f running at full tilt turned it back to normal and had one in 15 hours of game time

did get a decent hdmi cable but yet to try that and 165hz

Game · 23 Oct 2023 at 13:30

turned out that was not the issue but all my crashing problems had been down to my system m.2 drive being on the way out (chances are it was corrupting files )

last time I use an old drive in a second build for the system

fresh windows install on a different drive sorted it the system drive bricked itself two weeks ago

its been good as gold ever since

Cyber-Mav · 24 Oct 2023 at 09:06

Game said:
when I boot into windows as it goes from my loading screen to desktop for a split second I get a weird multi colour strip across the screen

looks like its make up of little boxes like a test page maybe started a few weeks back but noticed it was larger today about two inches across the screen

any ideas ? been getting the odd freeze in games as well was thinking that is heat related but runs fine if I turn avast of or seems to

Rx6700xt

my condolences