So here I was all happy playing elite dangerous when suddenly the computer freezes and locks completely. My first monitor was black and my second monitor had very fine stripes of white red etc vertically. The card was managing fan speed on its own and I thought at first it just overheated and shut down to protect itself or something (even though it shouldn't have overheated since it was fine regulating its fan speed for all the other days I played..). This isn't anything a reboot won't solve, especially in AMD land, I've seen this happen.
But to my surprise when I reboot I am greeted with this:
Now THIS is worrying, red bars / artifacts out of the operating system smells like a dead card. And when the Win 8 boot started it just showed black. Now this would completely ruin my summer break (since my last exam was TODAY when this happened.. tough luck)
So from here I took the card out and let it cool (thinking the cause was overheating) popped it back in exact same problem, bars at bios screen and black at win 8 boot.
So I changed the main GPU to the integrated one on my 4790k and went into win 8 with the intent of finding if windows recognized it. All while plugging the 7970 to a second monitor. my device manager showed two "Microsoft basic display adapter" with one being yellow (the 7970), GPU-Z also detected it like a basic display adapter and on the second monitor there were the SAME red bars.
Then I remember the only mod I made to this card, installing an UEFI bios like over a year ago, so here I just switch to BIOS 2 (it has a switch :3 )
Well some progress was made since now it boots into windows 8 (doesn't show just black) without any integrated GPU, all by itself.
But the red bars are still here and it still is detected as a basic display adapter ( not yellow this time).
Curiously the bars don't appear in screenshots, but trust me they are still here ( why is this? maybe bars are added at the end of the rendering cycle when it shoots the data to the monitor and hence windows isnt picking those bars up, I dunno, it still smells like hardware damage and perm dead card, but I have hope)
If I try to install the catalyst drivers, when it installs the display driver it just stops outputting ANY signal and turns black and I have to reboot. Also the fan gets quieter.
So from here I am just lost.... I don't know if I should try to flash the BIOS 1 into the default BIOS the card came with (should be on the web somewhere) or just call it a day and cry myself to sleep since I don't have money to buy a new card right now. I really need advice.
But to my surprise when I reboot I am greeted with this:
Now THIS is worrying, red bars / artifacts out of the operating system smells like a dead card. And when the Win 8 boot started it just showed black. Now this would completely ruin my summer break (since my last exam was TODAY when this happened.. tough luck)
So from here I took the card out and let it cool (thinking the cause was overheating) popped it back in exact same problem, bars at bios screen and black at win 8 boot.
So I changed the main GPU to the integrated one on my 4790k and went into win 8 with the intent of finding if windows recognized it. All while plugging the 7970 to a second monitor. my device manager showed two "Microsoft basic display adapter" with one being yellow (the 7970), GPU-Z also detected it like a basic display adapter and on the second monitor there were the SAME red bars.
Then I remember the only mod I made to this card, installing an UEFI bios like over a year ago, so here I just switch to BIOS 2 (it has a switch :3 )
Well some progress was made since now it boots into windows 8 (doesn't show just black) without any integrated GPU, all by itself.
But the red bars are still here and it still is detected as a basic display adapter ( not yellow this time).
Curiously the bars don't appear in screenshots, but trust me they are still here ( why is this? maybe bars are added at the end of the rendering cycle when it shoots the data to the monitor and hence windows isnt picking those bars up, I dunno, it still smells like hardware damage and perm dead card, but I have hope)
If I try to install the catalyst drivers, when it installs the display driver it just stops outputting ANY signal and turns black and I have to reboot. Also the fan gets quieter.
So from here I am just lost.... I don't know if I should try to flash the BIOS 1 into the default BIOS the card came with (should be on the web somewhere) or just call it a day and cry myself to sleep since I don't have money to buy a new card right now. I really need advice.
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