Dead GTX560 Ti?

[dr0be]

I just bought a MSI GTX560 Ti Twin Frozr a little over 30 days ago and it conveniently started acting up out of no where yesterday, 3 days after the RMA ended. Noticed it at first in WoW, crazy artifacting out of nowhere - textures missing, stretching across the screen, eventually the entire screen blacking out. Tried crysis2 and Portal2, both producing the same results. Runs two 1080p monitors 2D fine, but any 3D application it immediately crashes.

Tried unplugging one of two of my monitors and I did a clean install of the newest drivers, still the same issue. I've never had a dead video card, but I'm assuming this is a sure sign that the card is dead?

note: PSU Corsair 650W.

 

[notty22]

Does not sound good. Its a fairly heavy video card. Try taking it out, and re-seating it. Plugging in the power connectors again.

I played around with a spot fan, in my rig, at one point. Tied a zip tie to a heat pipe on the cyclone cooler -gtx 460. Just that resistance on the card , in the slot, caused it to act crazy under load. I'm not sure what exactly happened, but I undid it, and all was fine.

 

[stahlhart]

Uh oh.

 

[tviceman]

I just bought a MSI GTX560 Ti Twin Frozr a little over 30 days ago and it conveniently started acting up out of no where yesterday, 3 days after the RMA ended. Noticed it at first in WoW, crazy artifacting out of nowhere - textures missing, stretching across the screen, eventually the entire screen blacking out. Tried crysis2 and Portal2, both producing the same results. Runs two 1080p monitors 2D fine, but any 3D application it immediately crashes.

Tried unplugging one of two of my monitors and I did a clean install of the newest drivers, still the same issue. I've never had a dead video card, but I'm assuming this is a sure sign that the card is dead?

note: PSU Corsair 650W.

It may be past the RMA, but it's still covered under MSI's warranty. I recently went through their RMA process and it took about 10 days from the day I filed my RMA to the day I got a new one back.

 

[Seero]

Try another game. It can be a WoW specific issue as it hardly work up your video card.

 

[dr0be]

Does not sound good. Its a fairly heavy video card. Try taking it out, and re-seating it. Plugging in the power connectors again.

Getting a little late and I'm about to go to bed - will try this tomorrow though.

It may be past the RMA, but it's still covered under MSI's warranty. I recently went through their RMA process and it took about 10 days from the day I filed my RMA to the day I got a new one back.

That's faster than I thought it would be. I filled out MSI's online RMA request about an hour ago. Even if re-seating it fixes it, I will probably RMA it just to be safe. Link below is an example of what the WoW login screen looks like after a few seconds of texture tearing - goes completely haywire.

http://img864.imageshack.us/img864/9688/67769144.jpg

Try another game. It can be a WoW specific issue as it hardly work up your video card.

In OP I mentioned I tried Portal 2 and Crysis 2 producing the same problems. Portal 2 was artifacting on the value intro movie. Loaded a level, and pipes were rainbow colors before the game crashed.

 

[Joseph F]

Have you tried re-installing your graphics drivers yet?

 

[dr0be]

Have you tried re-installing your graphics drivers yet?

Tried unplugging one of two of my monitors and I did a clean install of the newest drivers, still the same issue. I've never had a dead video card, but I'm assuming this is a sure sign that the card is dead?.

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[Joseph F]

Sorry, I kinda skimmed through your post. In that case it's good that you're getting a replacement.

 

[timma]

msi in this years has many little problems,i and my friend buy gigabyte/asus/evga works good @ this time.

 

[3DVagabond]

msi in this years has many little problems,i and my friend buy gigabyte/asus/evga works good @ this time.

So, you think that MSI cards are just inferior and that's why he's having this problem? Not a very widely held position, I'm afraid. Their reference designs are the same as everyone else's, and many of their custom designs are often best in class performance, and component quality/construction wise.

 

[dr0be]

So, you think that MSI cards are just inferior and that's why he's having this problem? Not a very widely held position, I'm afraid. Their reference designs are the same as everyone else's, and many of their custom designs are often best in class performance, and component quality/construction wise.

I really didn't think this is a MSI quality problem, but after most the of the replies in this thread, I can pretty much bet on the card is dying and RMAing it to MSI is the smart choice.

 

[dr0be]

New update: After 24 hours of boredom, I attempt to get on WoW and everything looks normal...Logon screen is fine, get in, flying around town with no artifacting. I have not restarted my PC since the last time it went haywire...

Wonder why it works fine one second and blows up the next.

 

[notty22]

I just had a memory flash, are you hooked up to a power strip or a outlet with many plugs ? A fellow with a gtx 580 a high power pull card, had memory artifacts from power issues caused from a old low quality power strip.

They looked like you showed, now that I remember.

edit: There can be many causes of power issues, on board bad components, psu etc.

 

[dr0be]

I just had a memory flash, are you hooked up to a power strip or a outlet with many plugs ? A fellow with a gtx 580 a high power pull card, had memory artifacts from power issues caused from a old low quality power strip.

They looked like you showed, now that I remember.

edit: There can be many causes of power issues, on board bad components, psu etc.

I do have alot plugged into the same outlet...2 power strips...Computer, keyboard (G19), 2.5 ft^3 mini fridge, wireless house phone, 5.1 logitech speakers, router, modem, dehumidifier, 1TB external HDD...

Never heard of that happening. Everything is constantly powered except for the dehumidifier and maybe when the fridge compressor kicks on; maybe when they both are kicking on it is drawing too much? If the card was actually dying would it artifact all the time? Or work fine sometimes and bad others like mine is doing?

I opened WoW and turned on the dehumidifier and opened my fridge; few mins now, nothing yet...

*edit* 30m later, still no artifacting or crashing. I don't know why it does it and I can't reproduce it - it seems random.