- Sep 12, 2013
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Okay I'm going to stump you with a tech problem, it's Got ASUS and myself confused as hell, lol.
So my Radeon HD 7970 definitely shit the bed 3 weeks ago. It had a problem similar to mine only gave rainbow colors and gave it immediately upon startup. I sent it back to ASUS and they confirmed that it was in fact defective and sent me a replacement and I got it Saturday. I installed it the same day and I'm able to boot into windows with it just fine. Here's the odd part. Everytime I install any of AMD's drivers, window's updates drivers, or any kind of drivers I get a black screen after a few minutes. It get's weirder, I can use the video card with no drivers just fine, I ran the card for 24 hours on a video and it had no problems whatsoever with no drivers. It even passes several stress tests so it isn't a dead or dying video card at all.
I've had to have tried 15 different drivers and they all give the same result. A black screen after 3-5 minutes even when the computer doesn't do anything. I've also tried all three PCI-E slots and same result. I've reduced the computer to hard drive, one stick of ram and video card, same result. I've tried a different monitor, same result. I've tried lowering and increasing the refresh rate on my monitor same result, I've tried formatting the hard drive, same result, I've tried different drives and everything under the sun I could think of. I'm stumped as hell.
Unfortunately, I don't have another card to test so I have not tried that. And I can run integrated with drivers just fine so it isn't the motherboard. Stumped as hell I've never heard of or encountered this before. Anyone have any ideas? I'm 99% sure it isn't the video card becuase if it was, why would it post, stress test and run without drivers just fine?
So my Radeon HD 7970 definitely shit the bed 3 weeks ago. It had a problem similar to mine only gave rainbow colors and gave it immediately upon startup. I sent it back to ASUS and they confirmed that it was in fact defective and sent me a replacement and I got it Saturday. I installed it the same day and I'm able to boot into windows with it just fine. Here's the odd part. Everytime I install any of AMD's drivers, window's updates drivers, or any kind of drivers I get a black screen after a few minutes. It get's weirder, I can use the video card with no drivers just fine, I ran the card for 24 hours on a video and it had no problems whatsoever with no drivers. It even passes several stress tests so it isn't a dead or dying video card at all.
I've had to have tried 15 different drivers and they all give the same result. A black screen after 3-5 minutes even when the computer doesn't do anything. I've also tried all three PCI-E slots and same result. I've reduced the computer to hard drive, one stick of ram and video card, same result. I've tried a different monitor, same result. I've tried lowering and increasing the refresh rate on my monitor same result, I've tried formatting the hard drive, same result, I've tried different drives and everything under the sun I could think of. I'm stumped as hell.
Unfortunately, I don't have another card to test so I have not tried that. And I can run integrated with drivers just fine so it isn't the motherboard. Stumped as hell I've never heard of or encountered this before. Anyone have any ideas? I'm 99% sure it isn't the video card becuase if it was, why would it post, stress test and run without drivers just fine?
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