Radeon 7850 broken?

Zaloias

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Jul 1, 2013
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Hi. I have just bought a Powercolor Radeon 7850 2gb for my new computer. It worked great for about two days then it just gave me black screen with little dashes of colors and jiblits at the top. It was all plugged in correctly. Not a MOBO or monitor issue either since the comp booted to UEFI. It just couldn't make it to the Win login screen. Did I get a defective card or did I fuck up? All drivers were installed and up to date. I also tried switching PCI slots on the MOBO and that didn't fix the problem.

ASrock 990fx extreme 3

EDIT: I did change some settings in the GPU's control panel right before the last shutdown before it stopped working. Is there any way to reset those settings to default without being able to see?

[SOLVED] Not sure what I did but pressing F11 and F2 at variable times during windows start up somehow allowed it to boot. It may also have been due to disabling v-sync. Just enabled it now. It also may have been due to windows updates. Fixed for now.