Hi, I have the current system for about 3 years and a few days back, the graphics is giving me problems during game play ( distortion and eventually hangs). I hard reset and the problem comes back ( that is distortion and hangs after a while). Eventually, during one hard reset, I was not able to enter windows.
Was able to enter safe mode, but for some reason, my restore points were gone. ( Perhaps removed by ccleaner?)
I have then reinstalled windows 7 and was able to enter in "normal windows ". Since then, my graphics card is being detected as "Standard VGA Adapter" . The monitor shows have some columns of lines that appears depending on what is the background color. This column width changes with the screen resolution size changes.
When I install the GPU driver from either from CD or the web, the device manager shows the GPU driver replacing the "Standard VGA Adapter".
However,upon restart of PC and after windows splash screen, the screen becomes black or occasionally blue screen with lines instead. No mouse cursor seen in both case
Both graphics card fans are working and dust cleared. I have tried updating the BIOS with no difference seen.
PC Specs are:
GPU: Sapphire HD7850 2GB GDDR5 OC Edition
Motherboard: Z77-D3H Gigabyte
Processor : Core i7-3770 CPU @3.40 Ghz 3.90 GHz
RAM: 16.0 GB
Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit OS
Power Supply: Cooler Master GX 650W
SSD for Windows : OCZ Vertex 3 120GB
HDD: HSSEA-ST2000DM001-1 ( Seagate 2 TB)
Is my graphics card faulty or software problem? Its puzzling that it sort of works when the driver is Standard VGA Graphics Adapter but does not work when GPU drivers are installed.
Was able to enter safe mode, but for some reason, my restore points were gone. ( Perhaps removed by ccleaner?)
I have then reinstalled windows 7 and was able to enter in "normal windows ". Since then, my graphics card is being detected as "Standard VGA Adapter" . The monitor shows have some columns of lines that appears depending on what is the background color. This column width changes with the screen resolution size changes.
When I install the GPU driver from either from CD or the web, the device manager shows the GPU driver replacing the "Standard VGA Adapter".
However,upon restart of PC and after windows splash screen, the screen becomes black or occasionally blue screen with lines instead. No mouse cursor seen in both case
Both graphics card fans are working and dust cleared. I have tried updating the BIOS with no difference seen.
PC Specs are:
GPU: Sapphire HD7850 2GB GDDR5 OC Edition
Motherboard: Z77-D3H Gigabyte
Processor : Core i7-3770 CPU @3.40 Ghz 3.90 GHz
RAM: 16.0 GB
Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit OS
Power Supply: Cooler Master GX 650W
SSD for Windows : OCZ Vertex 3 120GB
HDD: HSSEA-ST2000DM001-1 ( Seagate 2 TB)
Is my graphics card faulty or software problem? Its puzzling that it sort of works when the driver is Standard VGA Graphics Adapter but does not work when GPU drivers are installed.