- Jul 10, 2012
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Hi.. two days ago my 1 and half year old video card started to die 
It all started while I was browsing facebook and suddenly some strange artifacts came up everywhere. Then I closed firefox and restarted the PC. Things went well but when I try to play a video it showed artifacts again and screen went blank. Then a message popped up saying that amd driver stopped responding and has recovered.
On the other day when I turned my PC on, a BSOD came up. It stated that it is a video memory fault.
Now I can't do anything. I tried all of that stuff like rolling back drivers, updating and cleaning the card as well.
Thing is things go wrong only when it boot into windows. I have a dual boot setup so this happen evenly on both (XP and 7).
Now after logging into win 7 desktop everything will freeze and screen goes blank after few artifacts and flickering. But I can stay in safe mode. Although if I try to open system settings explorer.exe will stop responding.
On win XP, after the booting process (with XP logo) screen goes blank and I can only hear sounds.
So what do you think? should I bake my video card in the oven? I did it once with my old HD 4350 with no luck (but it was a completely dead card).
it is a Gigabyte GV-R557D3-1GI - Radeon HD 5570 (warranty has ended)
(there is corrosion on the bracket. But not on the PCB. Our house humidity level is quite high. That's why)
It all started while I was browsing facebook and suddenly some strange artifacts came up everywhere. Then I closed firefox and restarted the PC. Things went well but when I try to play a video it showed artifacts again and screen went blank. Then a message popped up saying that amd driver stopped responding and has recovered.
On the other day when I turned my PC on, a BSOD came up. It stated that it is a video memory fault.
Now I can't do anything. I tried all of that stuff like rolling back drivers, updating and cleaning the card as well.
Thing is things go wrong only when it boot into windows. I have a dual boot setup so this happen evenly on both (XP and 7).
Now after logging into win 7 desktop everything will freeze and screen goes blank after few artifacts and flickering. But I can stay in safe mode. Although if I try to open system settings explorer.exe will stop responding.
On win XP, after the booting process (with XP logo) screen goes blank and I can only hear sounds.
So what do you think? should I bake my video card in the oven? I did it once with my old HD 4350 with no luck (but it was a completely dead card).
it is a Gigabyte GV-R557D3-1GI - Radeon HD 5570 (warranty has ended)
(there is corrosion on the bracket. But not on the PCB. Our house humidity level is quite high. That's why)
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