Woke up computer was black screen couldn't wake it up, unplugged/replugged hdmi cable screen flickered worked for a second. Restarted didn't work past windows splash screen. Ended up opening the case and one of the metal clips that holds the fan onto my cpu cooler had fallen onto the top of the card. Eventually found a solution on sapphire FAQ that suggested using 13.12 catalyst drivers if I had black screen on booting and surprisingly that worked but from time to time my screen starts to flickers and I get buggy horizontal lines on the right side of the screen. Warranty is out. Any suggestions on what I might be able to do? Do you think it's an inch from death?
PS: I was almost certain that it was dead. What I did was I took it out cleaned it off, there was a bit of dust and hair on it which may have been messing with it then I reseated it and cleaned off the cords. New drivers are working great no black screen everything is peachy. I'll leave this up if anyone else has problems like this.
PSS: Woke up today same problem, 13.12 drivers didn't work though ended up being able to show after boot screen in low resolution mode but had scan lines all over and screen flickering so I'm pretty sure the card is fked.
Any suggestions on how to prevent it on happening in the future? I've heard putting a black piece of paper between cpu cooler and gpu is ok. Any specific type of paper? No worries that it will heat up or anything?
PS: I was almost certain that it was dead. What I did was I took it out cleaned it off, there was a bit of dust and hair on it which may have been messing with it then I reseated it and cleaned off the cords. New drivers are working great no black screen everything is peachy. I'll leave this up if anyone else has problems like this.
PSS: Woke up today same problem, 13.12 drivers didn't work though ended up being able to show after boot screen in low resolution mode but had scan lines all over and screen flickering so I'm pretty sure the card is fked.
Any suggestions on how to prevent it on happening in the future? I've heard putting a black piece of paper between cpu cooler and gpu is ok. Any specific type of paper? No worries that it will heat up or anything?