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Completely CRAZY GPU Stuff
TychoCelchuuu
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So one day I sat down at my computer (which was at the "locked" screen that it goes to when I lock it and get up to go somewhere), and I noticed that all the color was messed up (it looked like it was in 16-bit color). It was also completely frozen. I restarted and Windows kept doing that little popup in the system tray that said my GPU Driver had recovered from a serious error.
I was like "hrm" so I updated the driver. That didn't help and in fact I started to see artifacts, like a bunch of bright pink pixels and some areas of black and white stripes. I turned off my computer and went about my day. When I next tried to turn it on, it wouldn't. I tested the PSU and found out that it was busted, so I replaced the PSU. When I turned it on again, it booted fine but there was no image at all, even during POST. I tried the GPU in my friend's computer and got the exact same result.
My GPU (8800 GTS) was still under warranty with EVGA (lifetime warranty
) so I RMAed it and they sent me an 8800 GTX (EVGA is the coolest company ever). It's a recertified GTX, though, which I wouldn't worry about except:
I put it in my computer and everything works fine. Until I fire up a Crysis benchmark to see what my performance is like. The benchmark freezes about 30 seconds in (always at the exact same spot). I fired up Shattered Horizon and after a second, the menu goes black and the game crashes. I fired up Bad Company 2 and the game crashes as soon as I spawn. I fired up Section 8 and I start a skirmish map: it works for 5-10 seconds, gets choppy and goes black, works for another few seconds, gets choppy and goes black, and then eventually it crashed. I ran this video card stress test and it worked perfectly fine.
I fired up Men of War: Assault Squad and it ran fine, even when I recorded it with FRAPS. I tried Starcraft II and it works fine except in the main menu (which has a real-time rendered background of a battlecruiser), where it hitches a bit. I haven't tried out more games yet. Also very odd: my second monitor stopped working, that is, Windows wouldn't let me enable it. I wiped my nVidia driver and reinstalled it and it didn't help.
So because I have a second HD lying around, I install Windows on that to see if it's my OS or the card. Shiny new install of Windows works great, and the second monitor now works, so I fire up Shattered Horizon and it does the same damn thing. And now Crysis crashes whenever I get ingame or whenever the benchmark finishes loading.
Did EVGA send me a bad recertified card that they didn't realize was bad because it outputs video fine until you play most games? Or is something wrong with my computer?
PSU: Before, 500W Antec that came with my Sonata III case. Now, 600W OCZ StealthXStream.
Mobo: Asus P5B Deluxe
CPU: E6700
And yes I have both power things plugged into the 8800 GTX and I had the one power thing plugged into the 8800 GTS.
I don't want to have to RMA another thing back to EVGA, especially because they've been so nice and also because that would take a bunch of time. What's going on with my computer?
I was like "hrm" so I updated the driver. That didn't help and in fact I started to see artifacts, like a bunch of bright pink pixels and some areas of black and white stripes. I turned off my computer and went about my day. When I next tried to turn it on, it wouldn't. I tested the PSU and found out that it was busted, so I replaced the PSU. When I turned it on again, it booted fine but there was no image at all, even during POST. I tried the GPU in my friend's computer and got the exact same result.
My GPU (8800 GTS) was still under warranty with EVGA (lifetime warranty
) so I RMAed it and they sent me an 8800 GTX (EVGA is the coolest company ever). It's a recertified GTX, though, which I wouldn't worry about except:I put it in my computer and everything works fine. Until I fire up a Crysis benchmark to see what my performance is like. The benchmark freezes about 30 seconds in (always at the exact same spot). I fired up Shattered Horizon and after a second, the menu goes black and the game crashes. I fired up Bad Company 2 and the game crashes as soon as I spawn. I fired up Section 8 and I start a skirmish map: it works for 5-10 seconds, gets choppy and goes black, works for another few seconds, gets choppy and goes black, and then eventually it crashed. I ran this video card stress test and it worked perfectly fine.
I fired up Men of War: Assault Squad and it ran fine, even when I recorded it with FRAPS. I tried Starcraft II and it works fine except in the main menu (which has a real-time rendered background of a battlecruiser), where it hitches a bit. I haven't tried out more games yet. Also very odd: my second monitor stopped working, that is, Windows wouldn't let me enable it. I wiped my nVidia driver and reinstalled it and it didn't help.
So because I have a second HD lying around, I install Windows on that to see if it's my OS or the card. Shiny new install of Windows works great, and the second monitor now works, so I fire up Shattered Horizon and it does the same damn thing. And now Crysis crashes whenever I get ingame or whenever the benchmark finishes loading.
Did EVGA send me a bad recertified card that they didn't realize was bad because it outputs video fine until you play most games? Or is something wrong with my computer?
PSU: Before, 500W Antec that came with my Sonata III case. Now, 600W OCZ StealthXStream.
Mobo: Asus P5B Deluxe
CPU: E6700
And yes I have both power things plugged into the 8800 GTX and I had the one power thing plugged into the 8800 GTS.
I don't want to have to RMA another thing back to EVGA, especially because they've been so nice and also because that would take a bunch of time. What's going on with my computer?
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You said you had a different PSU in there. Was that before you swapped cards? Try the old one if you haven't.
You also said that you tried it on a clean windows install. So I would rule out a driver problem.
Maybe see if it has any problems with FurMark for OpenGL and 3DMark for DX. If it doesn't and it's not the PSU then I would probably hit up EVGA's support.
The different PSU is before I swapped cards, but I know the old PSU is toast because my mobo has an LED that lights up when it's receiving power, and the old PSU won't light up the mobo. Also when the old PSU is plugged in, nothing turns on, so that's kind of indicative of a problem.
Furmark worked A-OK and so did 3DMark06. That really makes no sense to me, because it seems like if my video card were messed up, one or both of those would have thrown a fit, right? But on the other hand, on a brand new install of Windows things are still broken, so I suppose it has to be a hardware problem...
So. Weird.
Either the replacement card you got was also hosed.
or the PSU damaged your Motherboard as well.
Picking up an ultra cheap PCI-E video card to see if it works would give you a starting point. If it works, Replacement card is bad.
If it does not work, Motherboard is bad and its time to replace. If you replace the mobo make sure you extensively test the ram to make sure it wasnt hosed, too.
Also, I forced DX9 mode in Bad Company 2 and it worked fine. So I have no idea wtf is up.