Hello,
I need some assistance diagnosing a possible video card/mobo issue.
PC specs:
Radeon HD 7970
Asus P8P7 deluxe
Intel I7 2600k 3.4 GHZ
Windows 10
I have a strange issue where my display will become garbled (red lines, distored images/pixels) randomly. But before that, the first issue I had with my PC was where my primary PCI-E slot suddenly died after playing the Witcher 3. I reseated the card without any luck and then switched the video card to the second slower PCI-E slot and it started working again just fine.
As for the garbled display, it's only happened twice in the past month and each time I resolved the problem by running memtest86 off a bootable CD for an hour or so. For the record, it did not detect any errors, but the screen was distorting a lot of the text. It's a strange fix as rebooting and powering off the computer for some time did not work (it may even resolve if I leave the computer on for a while but I have not had the opportunity to test). When the display becomes distorted, I'm not even able to get to my desktop as my PC only loads past the windows logo.
I know it can't be a software/driver issue as I had the same issue with Windows 7 before I upgraded to Windows 10 (Clean install). It doesn't appear to be a memory issue either as memtest and windows own memory testing app didn't detect any issues. I am almost confident that it is a video card issue, but the dead PCI-E slot is also a concern. The garbled display happens usually after a game freezes my PC and I reboot the computer. Happened on two different games (ZSNES emulator and Game Dev Tycoon. Two low intensive games).
I just wanted to get a few opinions before I shell out $400 for a new video card.
I need some assistance diagnosing a possible video card/mobo issue.
PC specs:
Radeon HD 7970
Asus P8P7 deluxe
Intel I7 2600k 3.4 GHZ
Windows 10
I have a strange issue where my display will become garbled (red lines, distored images/pixels) randomly. But before that, the first issue I had with my PC was where my primary PCI-E slot suddenly died after playing the Witcher 3. I reseated the card without any luck and then switched the video card to the second slower PCI-E slot and it started working again just fine.
As for the garbled display, it's only happened twice in the past month and each time I resolved the problem by running memtest86 off a bootable CD for an hour or so. For the record, it did not detect any errors, but the screen was distorting a lot of the text. It's a strange fix as rebooting and powering off the computer for some time did not work (it may even resolve if I leave the computer on for a while but I have not had the opportunity to test). When the display becomes distorted, I'm not even able to get to my desktop as my PC only loads past the windows logo.
I know it can't be a software/driver issue as I had the same issue with Windows 7 before I upgraded to Windows 10 (Clean install). It doesn't appear to be a memory issue either as memtest and windows own memory testing app didn't detect any issues. I am almost confident that it is a video card issue, but the dead PCI-E slot is also a concern. The garbled display happens usually after a game freezes my PC and I reboot the computer. Happened on two different games (ZSNES emulator and Game Dev Tycoon. Two low intensive games).
I just wanted to get a few opinions before I shell out $400 for a new video card.
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