- Aug 7, 2014
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Up until now, my graphics card, a Sapphire HD 6870 (No tweaking) has been running normally. I've had this card for years and spent 200$ on it, so it was a good investment. Unfortunately, I think it may have died on me.
Last night I was playing Gmod (TTT) with some friends and out of nowhere this happened to my screen.
As you can see a portion of the right side of the screen got flipped over to the left. This has happened before on my old graphics card, an hd 4650. Naturally, I closed Gmod to check if it was just a problem with that program in particular, and found that the windows desktop was altered in the same fashion. I thought to myself that a restart was in order, and proceeded to do so.
Heres where the issue comes in. After restarting, I see the motherboards boot screen, and moving on see the "Starting Windows" screen without a hitch. Computer POSTs correctly. However, after that screen, the display seems to recognize that its moved on to something else, but it displays nothing. (What I mean by this is that the display recognizes a source, but all I see is black.)
I have currently tried to reinstall windows fresh on the hard disk (twice now) and reinstall the AMD Catalyst 14.4 drivers , and on a new windows installation, the 14.7 Beta drivers, but to no avail. The standard windows video drivers work, on windows and also in safe mode, however anything outside of that yields no results. I have tried removing the graphics card, cleaning the PCI-e slot with compressed air, and securely reseating the graphics card, but that did not help any.
Many posts that i've read on Toms Hardware and elsewhere suggest disabling the "Install AHCI drivers" option in advanced setup, however that does not exist in any of the AMD installers that i've tried. So i've come here, in need of some help, because the only other option i can think of is to buy a new Graphics card (which i was saving for anyway) but do not currently have enough to purchase. I have my eyes on a 760 or 770 from Asus but i'm not there yet. Any help so that i can squeeze a month or two of functionality before i can get the new card.
Thanks for all of your help,
Panic
Edit 1: Tried the card in a known good configuration (My brothers new pc) and the same problem occurred. Black screen after "Windows is starting" screen. After switching out the 6870 with his new r9 270x back to normal, his computer booted up normally. This makes me think that my card is just dead.
Last night I was playing Gmod (TTT) with some friends and out of nowhere this happened to my screen.
As you can see a portion of the right side of the screen got flipped over to the left. This has happened before on my old graphics card, an hd 4650. Naturally, I closed Gmod to check if it was just a problem with that program in particular, and found that the windows desktop was altered in the same fashion. I thought to myself that a restart was in order, and proceeded to do so.
Heres where the issue comes in. After restarting, I see the motherboards boot screen, and moving on see the "Starting Windows" screen without a hitch. Computer POSTs correctly. However, after that screen, the display seems to recognize that its moved on to something else, but it displays nothing. (What I mean by this is that the display recognizes a source, but all I see is black.)
I have currently tried to reinstall windows fresh on the hard disk (twice now) and reinstall the AMD Catalyst 14.4 drivers , and on a new windows installation, the 14.7 Beta drivers, but to no avail. The standard windows video drivers work, on windows and also in safe mode, however anything outside of that yields no results. I have tried removing the graphics card, cleaning the PCI-e slot with compressed air, and securely reseating the graphics card, but that did not help any.
Many posts that i've read on Toms Hardware and elsewhere suggest disabling the "Install AHCI drivers" option in advanced setup, however that does not exist in any of the AMD installers that i've tried. So i've come here, in need of some help, because the only other option i can think of is to buy a new Graphics card (which i was saving for anyway) but do not currently have enough to purchase. I have my eyes on a 760 or 770 from Asus but i'm not there yet. Any help so that i can squeeze a month or two of functionality before i can get the new card.
Thanks for all of your help,
Panic
Edit 1: Tried the card in a known good configuration (My brothers new pc) and the same problem occurred. Black screen after "Windows is starting" screen. After switching out the 6870 with his new r9 270x back to normal, his computer booted up normally. This makes me think that my card is just dead.
) and then while in windows my screen went black. After that, every restart wouldn't bring any picture and would just be black. Again, I could access picture in safe mode but not with any kind of drivers for AMD enabled.
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