Vertical Lines on Monitor

Winteresque

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Hi guys,

My computer has been in storage for about 6 months, and I just unpacked it yesterday and fired it up to this:

http://imgur.com/a/A5uTe

I'm honestly not sure what could cause this. I'm guessing it's the video card or the cable, but unfortunately I don't have any other cables to test with so I'm not sure where to start (current cable is a DVI-D single link, kinda old).

I did some googling and I found a few threads here and there that seemed similar, but there wasn't much in the way of solutions or even possible causes.

Here's the specs of my machine:

Intel i7-3770K
Corsair CWCH80
2x Corsair CMT8GX3M2A1866C9 8GB (2 x 4 GB) DDR3 Dominator GT Memory (16 GiB total)
Asus Maximus V Gene Motherboard
Asus AMD Radeon HD 7970
Corsair CMPSU-850AXUK

I'm going to grab another DVI cable to see if that helps, but I was hoping you guys might have some additional advice.

Thanks!
 

Winteresque

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Windows isn't actually booting properly (probably not related), so I haven't tested it. The same vertical lines appear during the loading screen though.
 

Xavier Tan Sync

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Do you have any others cards to test? And try format your pc and see what happens.