- Apr 24, 2012
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Hey all,
Haven't been around here lately. But last night my PC started to have some serious issues. I'm majoring in IT and been building comps for many years now but just want to re-assure my thinking on this that my graphics card is finally shot.
I went outside to work on my truck last night, come in, and my computer screen is flickering up and down. I restarted a couple times and got an error message "Default Radeon WattMan settings have been restored due to unexpected system failure". The screen then went ballistic; gray with all this flickering and artifacts going on.
My computer was pretty dusty (not terrible) so I blew it out. Afterwards, the computer actually works, and I can play some games on it (Overwatch), but there's still problems. It black screens for a very long time during start up (sometimes doesn't want to start at all), can no longer see my BIOS. I ran 3D Mark this morning and it eventually crashed, leaving me to believe that my graphics card is going bad.
Ignore my signature, last year I build a new micro ATX comp, here are the specs:
MSI Gaming Intel Skylake B150 LGA 1151 MB
i7 6700, stock cooler (no overclocking this time)
PNY Anarchy 16GB Kit (2x8GB) DDR4 2133MHz
EVA 600W 80+ PSU
MSI Radeon HD7950 Twin Frozr III
So my graphics card is the radeon HD7950. It's very old now (but still ran games great up to this point), it's the only thing I kept out of my old water cooled AMD build. I want to add in... this GPU was expose to a water leak in my old computer but still worked for the past year. It has been overclocked pretty intensely in the past (but not recently). But I'm thinking... this thing's about had it. It's also used, I originally bought it off ebay years ago.
Based off the symptoms, does everyone else concur the graphics card is just going bad? I'm not thinking it's driver related because it black screens at start up with no picture sometimes. Everything else in this computer is barely a year old. My monitor is also brand new, a curved Samsung I got just 3~ months ago, nothing wrong with it whatsoever. I just can't rule it out to being anything else. And with the driver message last night and the failed 3D mark bench, I am leaning even more towards it being the graphics card being shot.
Sucks if I would have to get a new one, I was hoping to wait at least till the 2080 Ti release before picking up a new one.
Haven't been around here lately. But last night my PC started to have some serious issues. I'm majoring in IT and been building comps for many years now but just want to re-assure my thinking on this that my graphics card is finally shot.
I went outside to work on my truck last night, come in, and my computer screen is flickering up and down. I restarted a couple times and got an error message "Default Radeon WattMan settings have been restored due to unexpected system failure". The screen then went ballistic; gray with all this flickering and artifacts going on.
My computer was pretty dusty (not terrible) so I blew it out. Afterwards, the computer actually works, and I can play some games on it (Overwatch), but there's still problems. It black screens for a very long time during start up (sometimes doesn't want to start at all), can no longer see my BIOS. I ran 3D Mark this morning and it eventually crashed, leaving me to believe that my graphics card is going bad.
Ignore my signature, last year I build a new micro ATX comp, here are the specs:
MSI Gaming Intel Skylake B150 LGA 1151 MB
i7 6700, stock cooler (no overclocking this time)
PNY Anarchy 16GB Kit (2x8GB) DDR4 2133MHz
EVA 600W 80+ PSU
MSI Radeon HD7950 Twin Frozr III
So my graphics card is the radeon HD7950. It's very old now (but still ran games great up to this point), it's the only thing I kept out of my old water cooled AMD build. I want to add in... this GPU was expose to a water leak in my old computer but still worked for the past year. It has been overclocked pretty intensely in the past (but not recently). But I'm thinking... this thing's about had it. It's also used, I originally bought it off ebay years ago.
Based off the symptoms, does everyone else concur the graphics card is just going bad? I'm not thinking it's driver related because it black screens at start up with no picture sometimes. Everything else in this computer is barely a year old. My monitor is also brand new, a curved Samsung I got just 3~ months ago, nothing wrong with it whatsoever. I just can't rule it out to being anything else. And with the driver message last night and the failed 3D mark bench, I am leaning even more towards it being the graphics card being shot.
Sucks if I would have to get a new one, I was hoping to wait at least till the 2080 Ti release before picking up a new one.
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