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Is My XFX 7950 Defective?

geokilla

geokilla

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I just installed my new XFX 7950 and for the 5th time within half an hour, I had to force restart my computer because I keep on getting a black screen in desktop or in my games. Then occasionally it won't detect my monitors at all, forcing me to do the force restarts. At first, I thought it was a driver problem so I reinstalled them, but it keeps on doing that so it probably isn't a driver problem. I'm using the latest September 2013 Catalyst drivers. Is my 7950 defective?
 
How is the display connected? Are you using any sort of adapters?

And do you have another known good cable?
 
Stuka87 said:
How is the display connected? Are you using any sort of adapters?

And do you have another known good cable?
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HDMI cable. Same one as that I was using with the GTX 460 for the whole morning and early afternoon, which was working perfectly fine.

I've been getting Display Driver crashes too, though they seemed to stop for now. Maybe because I'm not doing anything other than browsing?
 
Just happened again.. Twice in under a minute in fact.

OCGuy said:
Did you properly uninstall your Geforce drivers?
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What is properly uninstall them? I uninstalled all NVIDIA Drivers via Add or Remove Programs, then ran CC Cleaner. Installed GPU, then installed AMD drivers. I should mention that it also happened during the installation of the AMD drivers... Hence why I ended up reinstalling them.
 
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.NET Framework is already installed apparently. I guess the AMD drivers installed them. I am running Windows 7 Home Premium.

Edit: Even with AMD's beta drivers, it just glitched so hard that it exited the OCCT 3D test and I'm stuck on desktop... Now I'm unsure whether it's a driver failure or hardware failure.
 
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geokilla said:
Yes the fans spin. I do not know the temperature as MSI Afterburner cannot detect the temperature.
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Yes it does. Go into settings and in the 'On Screen Display' section enable all the settings you want to show up. The OCD will automatically show up in 3D mode. You can then assign an F-key to hide/toggle it.

Temperature is one of the many it displays.
 
Lol I don't think I'm going to bother troubleshooting... Turned on the computer with no drivers installed. Went to washroom. Come back and the monitor isn't receiving a signal from the GPU. This was with a idle computer. 99.99% sure it's defective.
 
geokilla said:
Lol I don't think I'm going to bother troubleshooting... Turned on the computer with no drivers installed. Went to washroom. Come back and the monitor isn't receiving a signal from the GPU. This was with a idle computer. 99.99% sure it's defective.
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Agree. Dont waste your time on it. There might be a minor chance something else is wrong so unless you absolutely have to play tonight and the 460 will not cut it...

...well find some of the good old games and use your time here with the 460 instead of switching hdmi cables and shaking your card for probably no use 🙂
 
krumme said:
Agree. Dont waste your time on it. There might be a minor chance something else is wrong so unless you absolutely have to play tonight and the 460 will not cut it...

...well find some of the good old games and use your time here with the 460 instead of switching hdmi cables and shaking your card for probably no use 🙂
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Lol I mean it. I have a midterm to prepare for... Someone suggested I format. Would that help? I'm going to start backing things up and give that a try I guess..

I plugged the GTX 460 back in for now and all is good.
 
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Lol I mean it. I have a midterm to prepare for... Someone suggested I format. Would that help? I'm going to start backing things up and give that a try I guess..

I plugged the GTX 460 back in for now and all is good.
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Yea your 7950 is most definitely defective. Doesn't surprise me because XFX is one of the worst brands.
 
Defective for sure. Just did a clean install of Windows. Still getting the same problem when doing the OCCT GPU test. Constant black screens, but at least a signal is being sent to my monitor now.
 
geokilla said:
Defective for sure. Just did a clean install of Windows. Still getting the same problem when doing the OCCT GPU test. Constant black screens, but at least a signal is being sent to my monitor now.
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Man you just cant keep your fingers from it. Lol. Stay on the midterm boy ! 🙂
 
krumme said:
Man you just cant keep your fingers from it. Lol. Stay on the midterm boy ! 🙂
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I'm just gonna get a refund... Or maybe I should switch it to a replacement... Decisions decisions decisions...

Oh and midterm... ()🙂
 
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