Computer Help!

[Pie172]

I recently built my own computer about 1-2 months ago. Everything has been wonderful up to this point. I turned off my computer for the night and the next day when I booted it up, the screen looks as if it is in safe mode. The screen is completely blurry with green, purple and pink pixels everywhere. I have searched google and nothing really comes up (partially because I think my explanation is not the greatest, but not sure how to state it beside it looks like it is in safe mode).

Has this happened to anyone or anyone know of a way to fix this? I have checked the fan on my card (evga gtx560 ti sc) and it seems just fine. Any help would be appreciated.

Thank you.

 

[nanaki333]

try reseating the card.

does the bios screen come up normal or is it only in windows that it's all messed up?

 

[Pie172]

I tried reseating the card. I am at work right now but I actually have not gone into the bios screen. I will check this later tonight. If the bios screen is fine what does that mean? Likewise, what if it the bios screen is the same way?

 

[nanaki333]

if the bios screen and everything prior to windows loading looks fine, it's driver related. if it's not, then it's hardware. from the sounds of it, it's probably hardware related though. what size PSU are you using with it?

 

[Zanovar]

Try uninstalling then reinstalling your graphics card driver.

 

[Pie172]

I am running a xfx black edition 750w (silver cert) psu, I also tried doing a driver sweep -> reinstall of drivers, tho I may try this again, not sure I did this correctly.

 

[nanaki333]

before wasting your time on drivers, power up your machine and go in to the bios. if the screen is still displaying all crazy in there, then it's not a driver issue.

 

[Zanovar]

before wasting your time on drivers, power up your machine and go in to the bios. if the screen is still displaying all crazy in there, then it's not a driver issue.

Perhaps you should of asked him this first*laughs*

 

[tweakboy]

Try the card on another monitor.

I doubt its the monitor tho.

Maybe the fan stopped spinning and is broken now.

 

[Zanovar]

Try the card on another monitor.

I doubt its the monitor tho.

Maybe the fan stopped spinning and is broken now.

he has checked his fan and its ok tweak.

 

[Pie172]

I will try it on another monitor as well just to see. This has happened before on a laptop of mine. Mysteriously, a few months later it stopped.

 

[veri745]

post on Computer Help belongs in Computer Help forum

 

[nanaki333]

Perhaps you should of asked him this first*laughs*

i did

 

[digitaldurandal]

I think his post may belong here simply because of the fact that my conclusion is that it is very likely that your video card is damaged.

A few questions:

What are your specs?

Did you overclock/overvolt?


Most likely you will need to RMA your product. Hope it turns out for the best.

 

[Pie172]

I am running an i7-950, px58d-e mobo, gtx 560 ti, 6 gb of gskill PC 12800 ram, ssd, asus vg236he monitor.

I have not really run anything very graphic intensive (used it for a few weeks of WoW but no longer play), what are some ways that it could have been damaged? I have the video card fan on auto and it really doesnt get very high on the temperature (maybe 50-60 degrees).

No overclocking or overvoltage.

 

[Zanovar]

I think his post may belong here simply because of the fact that my conclusion is that it is very likely that your video card is damaged.

A few questions:

What are your specs?

Did you overclock/overvolt?


Most likely you will need to RMA your product. Hope it turns out for the best.

soundss like an rma

 

[Pie172]

Any idea if EVGA covers something like this? Literally had this for maybe a month

 

[airdata]

I've seen artifacting like that w\ green / pink pixels when a card was overheating.

Could you use something like fanspeed or atitool or nvidia tools to bump up the fan speed to 100% and see if it helps?

Within 10 minutes of playing Dragon Age II, my 4870 started overheating and had pixels all over the place.. Surprisingly it let me goto windows, open catalyst control center, bump my fan speed way up and go back to the game where the pixels corrected themselves.

 

[nanaki333]

another thing.. how long did you wait before powering it off? did it just start happening and you turned it off within a minute or did you wait it out? maybe your GPU fan is stuck on a stray cable/wire and not spinning up. may want to crack the case open.

 

[Pie172]

I waited a few to see if anything happened, I also shut it down for awhile, and also opened the case and took the gpu out for a bit. I really dont want to go through the RMA process, but might have to. Thank you for helping, I will post later tonight once I can check the bios and a few other things.

 

[Pie172]

So it seems to be driver related because it looks absolutely fine when I switch it to another monitor. Right now under Monitor Type it reads: Generic PnP Monitor.

 

[timma]

it's look like driver problem~try change some different version.

 

[EliteRetard]

How about the cable/connector? It can easily be something that simple, cable gets kinked or something...or perahps the cord gets tugged, you get a bent pin or something and it can give you weird stuff like that.

Ive seen all of those, my friend still got one like that and has to use its VGA input now (he tripped on the cord and that messed up the DVI port on the monitor).

 

[taltamir]

replace your components one by one until the problem is solved.

 

[EliteRetard]

That doesnt always work...sometimes the problem is you.