- Jun 15, 2010
- 16
- 0
- 0
Hi all..
I posted here also http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2323256
A brief synopsis: I was playing BF3 last night when I noticed some artifacting (out of the blue) on a fairly new Raedon 7950.. Not tearing, but black pixilated boxes appearing out of the blue, about 4' by 4' (so quite sizable).
I figured that after the match I'd do some troubleshooting, but within minutes, the computer froze. It was locked up hard and a manual power reboot was the only option.
Since then, I'm getting a post code of 85 (on the evga p55 ftw motherboard) which means that it's a video error.
The 7950 is fairly new (6 months old) and the old card was still working when I replaced it. Putting the old video card in didn't change anything - same error message.
Now, I know that the video card is getting power, because the GPU fan turns on when the PC is turned on, but could the PSU be bad? How could I test it? Any ideas?
I posted here also http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2323256
A brief synopsis: I was playing BF3 last night when I noticed some artifacting (out of the blue) on a fairly new Raedon 7950.. Not tearing, but black pixilated boxes appearing out of the blue, about 4' by 4' (so quite sizable).
I figured that after the match I'd do some troubleshooting, but within minutes, the computer froze. It was locked up hard and a manual power reboot was the only option.
Since then, I'm getting a post code of 85 (on the evga p55 ftw motherboard) which means that it's a video error.
The 7950 is fairly new (6 months old) and the old card was still working when I replaced it. Putting the old video card in didn't change anything - same error message.
Now, I know that the video card is getting power, because the GPU fan turns on when the PC is turned on, but could the PSU be bad? How could I test it? Any ideas?