Hello
I was playing a game in steam when the screen just flashed and weird things appeared on the screen (I thought the GPU was toast). I recently installed a driver update from AMD and I got an error about it in windows (program not installed properly), but it seemed to be working ok so I left it like that. I have a Radeon HD 6870 BTW.
Back to the problem: Things start to appear on the monitor beginning from boot-up and up to the log in screen. I put in my password and I get a blue screen, not BSOD but one with vertical stripes. After that I have to restart or go into safe mode to use the computer (stripes still visible in safe mode). I removed the driver using AMD driver uninstall tool (because the normal catalyst uninstall was not working). I installed and older driver but screen stripes are still there. However, without any driver I was able to log in to windows normally without the BSOD with stripes.
I have some pictures here:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/xqmu4a2yc69iboc/IMAG0489.jpg?dl=0
https://www.dropbox.com/s/pn33y4eobp7u4mn/IMAG0483.jpg?dl=0
https://www.dropbox.com/s/x4angav1dzr97k7/IMAG0484.jpg?dl=0
Now my question is: has anyone experienced something like this before or have any idea what is causing this? is it the GPU or something else perhaps?
Any help will be greatly appreciated.
I was playing a game in steam when the screen just flashed and weird things appeared on the screen (I thought the GPU was toast). I recently installed a driver update from AMD and I got an error about it in windows (program not installed properly), but it seemed to be working ok so I left it like that. I have a Radeon HD 6870 BTW.
Back to the problem: Things start to appear on the monitor beginning from boot-up and up to the log in screen. I put in my password and I get a blue screen, not BSOD but one with vertical stripes. After that I have to restart or go into safe mode to use the computer (stripes still visible in safe mode). I removed the driver using AMD driver uninstall tool (because the normal catalyst uninstall was not working). I installed and older driver but screen stripes are still there. However, without any driver I was able to log in to windows normally without the BSOD with stripes.
I have some pictures here:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/xqmu4a2yc69iboc/IMAG0489.jpg?dl=0
https://www.dropbox.com/s/pn33y4eobp7u4mn/IMAG0483.jpg?dl=0
https://www.dropbox.com/s/x4angav1dzr97k7/IMAG0484.jpg?dl=0
Now my question is: has anyone experienced something like this before or have any idea what is causing this? is it the GPU or something else perhaps?
Any help will be greatly appreciated.
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