- Jun 1, 2010
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Hi everyone
I have a PowerColor 7970 running at stock, bought in 2012 that has suddenly developed a discolouring/artifacting issue. The pics below show the issue. The issue appears from the BIOS through to a successful Windows boot. After booting into Windows, I can only use the PC a few minutes before it crashes (usually a grey pinstripe screen).
A bit of background info; this issue appeared a few weeks back under heavy strain only. I simply believed it to be a temperature issue because while running Furmark, it cut out almost every time at the same temp. After underclocking it a bit, the card was stable with the same benchmarks. I then bumped the clocks up until I reached the stock ones and the issue seemed to resolve itself. It stayed this way for +-3 weeks.
Yesterday, I was playing The Wolf Among Us and I suddenly got a grey screen. Restarting my PC after letting it cool for a while, I see the effect in the pictures.
What I have tried:
Running previous drivers
Cleaning out the heatsink (temps improved a bit)
Running it on another PC
Running onboard graphics and a different GPU successfully (ie, I believe the issue isolated to the GPU)
Reseating the card and checking power connectors
After all of these attempts, I still get the same issue. Before I go out and buy another GPU, I just want to see if anyone has a possible solution, or a reference to this issue that I can look up.
Many thanks in advance
I have a PowerColor 7970 running at stock, bought in 2012 that has suddenly developed a discolouring/artifacting issue. The pics below show the issue. The issue appears from the BIOS through to a successful Windows boot. After booting into Windows, I can only use the PC a few minutes before it crashes (usually a grey pinstripe screen).
A bit of background info; this issue appeared a few weeks back under heavy strain only. I simply believed it to be a temperature issue because while running Furmark, it cut out almost every time at the same temp. After underclocking it a bit, the card was stable with the same benchmarks. I then bumped the clocks up until I reached the stock ones and the issue seemed to resolve itself. It stayed this way for +-3 weeks.
Yesterday, I was playing The Wolf Among Us and I suddenly got a grey screen. Restarting my PC after letting it cool for a while, I see the effect in the pictures.
What I have tried:
Running previous drivers
Cleaning out the heatsink (temps improved a bit)
Running it on another PC
Running onboard graphics and a different GPU successfully (ie, I believe the issue isolated to the GPU)
Reseating the card and checking power connectors
After all of these attempts, I still get the same issue. Before I go out and buy another GPU, I just want to see if anyone has a possible solution, or a reference to this issue that I can look up.
Many thanks in advance
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