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I have a card here that is a PowerColor R9 380X. A few years ago, it kind of just died after a driver crash. It works when in safe mode and whenever a driver is not installed, but makes the computer crash once a driver is loaded. I was wondering if there are any known fuses I should check or any solutions that may help. I have already tried to reflow the card, update and change the BIOS, and I tried older drivers. No luck with any of them. Any help is much appreciated, as I would like to get this card working so my cousin can game with me.

Hi, yesterday my PC was just fine. Today it won't recognize my gpu as "a valid VGA card" on a boot and if I skip this notice message, I am welcomed with what you can see on this video [youtube.com]. Also I noticed that the DP port I have been using till now is dead, monitor knows there is something but nothing can be seen - all black and the other DP next to it shows the thing on video (before I had Valve Index plugged there). This doesn't happen when I plug my laptop to my momitor via hdmi, so monitor is probably fine. When I tried different DP cable, same thing happens. If I use the third DP port on my gpu, I don't get any artifacts at all. What is going on? GPU is being detected in windows (task manager can see) Things I tried: DDU drivers (because why not) Disable RAM OC/profile Can I do something about this or is it time for a RMA ? Setup is in attachments (HWINFO dump) MOSSSHINE.HTM

Hello everyone, yesterday was the day I build my own PC for the first time! I was really nervous and stressed until I got it booted up and windows installed. After installing drivers I was fixing the color on my NZXT Kraken Z cooler in NZXT CAM. Everything was fine until I clicked something without looking at it. My pc’s fans started going crazy and it was really loud. The monitor screen went blank and after restarting the montior + pc multiple times, I’m on one black screen with multiple lines. I really hope this is fixable since I am a student and got the PC mostly paid by my father. Specs: i9-11900K RTX rog strix 3060 Samsung 980 1TB G.skill trident Z 32GB (16x2) Asus rog strix Z590-A NZXT Kraken Z73 Corsair CX650M Bronze

i just installed my new 6700 xt and i cant seem to find anything that is doing this it makes almost a mesh or a fuzzy/dotty thing in the back but only on some games it does this it did this with my last card a bit and that why i upgraded but i really want to know how to fix this i watched every ltt video i could find on this and still don't understand what's happening before i buy more parts i thought i should ask ltt community for help

Hi guys, I've been experiencing some very unusual GPU behaviour in the last 2 months. Unfortunately I don't know when/how it started. In games I have started getting small artefacts appear which usually leads to a game crash within 2 minutes of starting a game. However if I run FurMark before running a game, letting FurMark crash due to this weird behaviour, then all is well and no artefacts appear. Would anybody have any idea what is causing this? Is my GPU faulty? Or has windows caused something very annoying. Sincerely, Tris. Motherboard: Gigabyte B450 Aorus M CPU: Ryzen 5 3600X GPU: Sapphire Pulse 5600XT OC PSU: Cooler Master MWE 500W

I'm getting things like the following - weird contrast errors, etc., in Brave browser, but not in Edge. I have no updates available to Brave, I have no driver updates available, and I didn't change any configurations before yesterday. I've rebooted, and that hasn't fixed anything. I've cleared cache (it's Brave, it clears it every time you close) Any ideas?

So I have been thinking this for a while and I can't find anything anywhere on the interwebs about any attempt of it. It recently occurred to me that at AMD, they have the ability to manufacture with such technologies and components so why not use the engineering capacity to manufacture an ATX motherboard with high-end graphics chips integrated into the board. I know the laptop motherboards that have solder connection is essentially the same thing but if the GPU chipset is connected directly via the motherboards PCIe lanes, however in similar circumstances to their sister companies Motherboard PCB being connected to the HD Audio, the simple removal of one or 2 16x PCIe slots and separating of the board in the same way, a chipset from the RX 6000 or 5000 series cards could essentially be made in direct connection to the PCIe lanes. Surely this would alleviate most latency issues and software issues. Understandably there would be some drawbacks such as narrowing the market, however, enthusiasts and hobbyist builders, I feel would be all over this like hotcakes. The potential abilities of custom cooling solutions, art piece machines, slimmer lined compact machines, and much more. I guess they would have to lock the boards based on CPU to GPU for example if the motherboard was fitted with an RX 6700 chipset, it would be restricted to Ryzen 5 3000 series and higher. This would also make for better overall machine efficiency, driver control ability, latency, data transfer speed between processing units, and much more. Pricey? Of course it would be, but worth it? Undoubtedly. What do you think?

SPECS: R5 1600 MSI B450 Tomahawk MSI Gaming X 8GB RX 480 ANTEC TPC 550W 16GB DDR4 2 250gb SSD 1 500gb M.2 1TB HDD I recently bought a new M.2 SSD and decided to install it. I unplug my GPU, unclick the PCI-E thingy and pull out the graphics card. I then move the M.2 standoff over one slot plug in the m.2 ssd screw it in. I then plug in the graphics card, power cord and it seems to be working fine - boots and runs windows no worries. Later I decide to play some lost ark, used to run perfectly, but now its stuttering really bad (frame times seem horrific). I play for about 30 minutes before investigating further. I boot up Unigine Superposition instantly both monitors turn black with no signal and the fans boost all the way up to 100%. I then tried to remove the m.2 and try it again. Same thing. Have tried to reseat the GPU multiple times nothing changes. I've removed my small overclock and the same thing happens. Currently any game I launch causes the system to just black screen and ramp up the fans. I also think the graphics card might be running hotter than it used to - nothing big but I think its idling about 5-10 degrees hotter than it used to. Is this likely a PSU, GPU or software issue?

Recently, I have been experiencing issues when trying to use Remote Desktop to connect to my computer: After rebooting the system, everything works fine - I can log in remotely or locally on the computer without any issues. The problem is that after "choosing" one option, I cannot switch to the other. So for example if I first log in locally, any attempt to connect via RDP will result in a black screen, followed by the session being terminated shortly afterwards. The same is true the other way around: If I first log in remotely, I cannot get the screen to light up again locally. My system: CPU: i7-8700k, stock settings GPU: RTX 3080 (ASUS TUF Gaming 10GB), driver version 511.65 ([Edit] Now updated to 511.79 [/Edit]) Monitor: Samsung Odyssey Neo G9, connected via DP, 240Hz, 10bit HDR, G-Sync enabled (for fullscreen) MB: MSI Z370-A Pro, Bios 7B48v2C PSU: Seasonic Focus GX 850W OS: Windows 10 Pro, 21H2, 19044.1466 Some observations and attempts: Reinstalled the GPU drivers, no success. [Edit] Also tried to uninstall with DDU in Safe mode, didn't help [/Edit] Windows is up-to-date PCIe Link Power State Management is set to Off The issues only appear after the computer was idle for a while - so if e.g. log in remotely while I'm still using it locally, it works fine I did not have any such issues with my previous GPU that I used until December (GTX 770) I don't really want to disable hardware rendering or the WDDM driver for RDP sessions if I don't have to [Edit] Tried disabling both, but the issue still remains [/Edit] "sfc /scannow" and "dism" found no issues The screen is black, but the computer is still working: I can shut it down remotely via the command line, and access file shares etc. When connecting via RDP after a local session, the login screen appears for a split second before everything going black Sometimes (I guess if I wait long enough for the system to realize something's wrong), I get a critical error in the event log (ID 10111): Any suggestions?

Today I found out about a feature Nvidia has in there display settings that will automatically upscale games and Windows without a rtx card. I learned about it from a channel called RandomGaminginHD, which is the biggest channel to cover it. It's super easy to find too. It's literally the second options in advance settings. It was able to take Dying Light 1 on my gtx 960 2gb from 40fps to around 60fps with minimal graphical lost. Does anyone know why this isn't talked about?

Hello, I have a system I built back in 2017 and I'm wondering if this is considered good for what I have. I ran a benchmark on heaven 4.0 Gtx 1080 ti asus poseidon I7 6700k xmp profile and running at 4.6 16gb trident z ram Customer water loop. Temps are getting up to 68 C I feel like it is running too hot for a water cooled card that also has fans on it as well. And I don't really understand the settings in Gpu tweak, I just kinda raise them until it crashes lol. I really don't know much about overclocking so I have no idea what's good or bad or average. Any help is appreciated. I attached 3 pictures. Scores with 1080p and 1440p and also my gpu tweak settings. I just want to make sure this is safe to run in games and that nothing looks weird. Thanks!

I have been looking at 980 Ti GPU's on eBay, and found that their prices are surprisingly cheap, considering that they aren't too far off the performance of an RTX 2060. I was wondering if this is a good alternative to spending lots of money and maybe just a card to keep me playing newer games until prices go down? I have a GTX 660 Ti right now and my dad has a GTX 1060 3GB. We have overkill PC's for what our Graphics cards are capable of, he has a Core i5 10400F, 32 GB of 3600 MHz DDR4 RAM, Geforce GTX 1060 3GB, and a 500 GB NVMe SSD + 2 TB Hard Drive. I have a Ryzen 5 2600x,16 GB of 3600 MHz DDR4 RAM, EVGA GTX 660 Ti, and a 500 GB NVMe SSD + 3 TB (very old) Hard Drive. The only games my dad plays are MSFS 2020 and the Sims 4, while I play mostly racing games, such as Assetto Corsa, ACC, FH5, F1 2021 and others. We are both looking to getting an RTX 2080 Ti once the prices drop, but until then, is a GTX 980 Ti worth it, or are there any other alternatives? Personally my budget is about $600 AUD ($450) and I am not sure about my dads, but I think it is similar. We both also use 1440p monitors, so 4k performance isn't a necessity. I have an Xbox Series X as well, but I love the mods in Assetto Corsa and some games that aren't on console, such as Euro Truck Simulator and BeamNG, and my dad prefers to have a PC so he can have mods in Flight Simulator as well. Update: My dad isn't looking to upgrade at all so and the only games I will be playing is Assetto Corsa, F1 2020, BeamNG, Euro Truck Simulator and all of those games (except for F1 2020) are 8+ years old and don't need a newer card to run them at 1440p. So for me this would be a worthwhile upgrade. Update (1st of March) I now have a GTX 1070Ti, and I am very happy with it. All my games get 100 fps+ so it was a worthwhile upgrade. It cost me $525 AUD so about the same price as the 980 Ti was 2 months ago. I have it overclocked to 1080 levels of performance, so until GPU prices decrease dramatically, I am not going to upgrade. Update (18th of July) I have since upgraded my whole pc, I now have a Ryzen 5600x and a 3060 Ti, and the 1070 Ti has gone to my dad.

Hello everyone! I hope you can help me here. Very recently I managed to get my hands on an RTX 3070 (FE). After swapping it against my old GTX 970 and letting GeForce Experience handle the driver update semi-automatically, I started to notice some problems. My screen sometimes randomly blanks for a brief second or has a little glitch / horizontal jitter. I never experienced this with my 970 and it started to appear right after installing my new GPU. Also it only appears on one of my two monitors. The monitor is an iiyama GB3461WQSU-B1 (1440p, 21:9, 144Hz) connected via Display Port. My other monitor (some generic office monitor) is connected via HDMI. To be clear, the problem never occured during gaming, yet. So far I only noticed it while doing normal desktop stuff (Discord, Webbrowsing, Zoom, etc.). So I do not think, it has something to do with power supply problems. Anyway, I am using a 630W be.quiet PSU. I hope you have any idea, where this comes from. It is kind of scary to be honest. Cheers.

If in case you need a new display instance for your project or setup but you don't have a dummy plug or your graphics card does not have an output port, this might be for you. What you need to do: Simply download and install ge9's IddSampleDriver (read the instructions included there). Go to Device Manager and Display Settings to check if the driver is working properly. How it works: Microsoft recently introduced the concept of Indirect Display Driver (IDD). This is basically just an implementation of that. In essence, it creates a display instance without requiring a physical connection to the graphics card. ge9's IddSampleDriver is a fork of roshkins's IddSampleDriver which adds a config file that you could use to set the amount of display instances as well as the available properties for those displays. Things to note: This requires fairly advanced computer skills according to the driver's author. Moreover, this is a custom driver from a pretty much unknown source. Proceed at your own risk. With that said, I would also like to give my opinion that simply being diligent in reading the instructions and having basic knowledge in what drivers and certificates are is enough to make this work. Also, if the certificate was not installed properly, try opening either Command Prompt or Powershell as administrator, navigate to installCert.bat's directory and open it from there. As mentioned before, you could use this for a variety of cases. A comment on a Reddit post that I made even stated that they got their Tesla M40 (a card without a display output port) to produce a display output using this. Credits: roshkins for their driver ge9 for their convenient fork I also posted this on Reddit and LTT Discord for those who are interested. I'm trying to make this reach as many people as I can so that Google could place this method on the first page of search results since I had a hard time finding this on my own.

I'm looking for a 200-400 GBP graphics card, thanks in advance.

Summary At the beginning of 2021 during CES (RIP), NVIDIA laid claim that they would be releasing a new generation of 30 series RTX graphics cards destined to have half the expected mining rate of standard 30 series cards in some misguided wisdom that this would make gamers happy. It has been just under a year since then and the mining community has managed to partially bypass the limits that would conventionally see around a 40 MH/s hashrate upped back up to around the 76-82 MH/s mark which results in around 67-71% of the potential hashrate on a RTX 3080 Ti from the around 45% it normally has when LHR is triggered. Article How'd we get here? This all begun somewhat unknowingly with the release of the RTX 3060. It was reported in early February by media outlets that these new cards may potentially be limited in hashrate. On February 18, 2021, NVIDIA officially announced that they would halve the hashrate for the GeForce RTX 3060 in the article titled "GeForce Is Made for Gaming, CMP Is Made to Mine". It wasn't until 3 months had passed that NVIDIA came out again looking to double down on their claims by publishing the article “A Further Step to Getting GeForce Cards into the Hands of Gamers”. Essentially this article states that NVIDIA would be lowering the hashrates on the newly released RTX 3080, 3070 and 3060 Ti graphics cards to make them less desirable to miners. These new cards would have the suffix LHR (Lite Hash Rate) to signify that they were limited. Just under 2 weeks after that article NVIDIA announced the RTX 3080 Ti and 3070 Ti, both of which had the rumour mill swirling with expectations that these cards would be limited in hashrate, once the cards made it into the hands of media, it was confirmed that these GPU's were in fact hashrate limited as well. You dare challenge me? Fast forward around 3 months worth of mucking around, running the numbers, checking them twice, crying again because it's 3x over RRP for a GPU, the mining community and more specifically lolMiner, a popular mining software platform available through GitHub, had released version 1.32a which contained the first version of a 'partial LHR Unlock'. This partial unlock, unsurprisingly, was partial and incredibly unstable on any platform that was not Linux based (take that, Linus). Even then it was far from usable reliably albeit the floodgates were beginning to open and it was only a matter of time before it got better. Subsequent releases from lolMiner have been largely focussed on improving the LHR unlock, this resulted in version 1.33 in the beginning of October to further improve the unlock performance and to also specify drivers to use as well. Mid October saw version 1.34 released mainly to improve on bugs found in 1.33 and again to improve performance. Mid November saw the release of version 1.36 which improved GPU compatibility as a whole and also contained auto-tuning modifications to assist in long term mining on LHR cards. From here the article quoted for this post contains a dual GPU test with 2x RTX 3080 Ti's that are both LHR cards. It gets very detailed and even includes the batch file flags used in the test along with their own refinements to get their desired hashrate using different specific LHR unlock methods as described on lolMiner's GitHub page on how to setup the LHR unlock. The summary of this was that in testing with the LHR lock enabled and triggered the GPU's would perform between 40 - 60 MH/s depending on spot performance, with the LHR unlock in use the cards performed to the tune of around 76 - 82 MH/s. One thing to note is that in testing of this on Windows, the software and stability as a whole was poor and requires a masochist attitude towards GPU overclocking, testing and improving stability of your own accord. While newer versions have drastically improved on performance since, lolMiner does still state that this is a partial unlock and in testing for each version of lolMiner, the LHR locks are still triggered and performance stagnates until the unlock is reset (automatically). Versions 1.34 and 1.36 were the most stable in the tests provided showing 3 and 9 LHR lock triggers respectively. According to 2miner.com (the publisher of the article): My thoughts It truly was a matter of time before the cesspool known as the Internet were able to break the LHR lock system. While it's not perfect, it does raise the potential for LHR locked cards to improve on performance in mining applications and makes it clear to NVIDIA that by putting arbitrary rules in place to limit people from doing things just makes those same people more likely to want to break the rules and do the things. Monke see monke do. While I do not condone nor endorse the usage of mining for cryptocurrency, I do believe in the right that the product you purchase should be able to be used however the user specifies, regardless of further implications. As it turns out the folks over at lolMiner have thought something similar, with improvements of around 1-2% per version, it's easy to see that the LHR locks embedded on NVIDIA cards will not last forever and it was a futile endeavour even from the start. Sources https://2miners.com/blog/increasing-nvidia-lhr-graphics-cards-hashrate-with-lolminer-test-by-2miners/

bought a preowned Pre-Built PC with a 10700f 16gb ram 2 tb hdd ca 550watt psu but without a GPU!! the 10700f does not have integrated Graphics i tried with 2 very old AMD and a Nvidia GPU. My Problem: i only get a Display output on the pre installed Ubuntu login page, i don't get any prompts for the Bios Nor did it work with different Keys F2 F8 F9 etc , i put a ssd with Win installed in it plunged out the pre installed Hhd and i would no boot the seller is being a real.... could this be a problem with the GPUs being to old i can not get into the bios or install a other OS!! thanks for your help

bougth a Preowned Prebuilt PC without a Graphics card with a Intel 10700f , My Problem is that wen Booting the PC does not show a Display output, only when it boots into a pre installed Ubuntu install a Display output apears and also while a late part of Booting, so i dont see Bios message and can not get into the Bios!, i tried 3 old GPU s for Display output could they be the Problem!? without a SSD/HHD installed and a Win install USB plug ind there is no Display output/do not see the Bios to be clear i do not see Display output until i boot into the pre installed OS cannot get into Bios, tried a SSD with WIN installed and without the pre installed HHD , it would not boot into it

ive switched from a nvidia gpu to a amd gpu the old was a 2060 and the new one is a 6600xt so its statistically better hardware for some reason however it seems in game (so far genshin and halo infinite) that all the textures looked worse as the title of this states. I dont know why this is the case the settings were the same and i even increased them. I had the latest amd drivers but still nvidia. I uninstalled all types of graphics drivers and reinstalled the amd one only again and it still has a worse looking image in game. Even my old 1060 made genshin look better than the 6600xt. The issue seems to relate to either somehow the switch from nvidia to amd and this did sth? or just amd and sth doesnt work? For example in this screenshot u can clearly see squares in some psrts of the textures and the over image looks worse than before. I dont have a old image for comparison but the textures are bad looking without even seeing the old ones.

(Well this post isn't really for me but for a friend. Basically he has sold his RTX 2060 MSI which came pre-built into his PC, and bought another GPU the 1050ti which prior was working fine as I even tested it in my system._ The issue is that when he boots his PC up there is a black screen and no video output seems to be displaying on the monitor which was just working when the 2060 was in the system It gives an audio response on the headphones like a beep but no display at all even through connecting it to the CPU. 0 Video Output seems to be coming up no bios or anything Everything turns on like lights, GPU fans CPU etc a noise is also heard through headset a bit different to how it used to be when turned on then nothing else, no audio output from windows or anything The PC I believe s a prebuilt MSI infinite S I believe and it has a i5-9400F CPU, which I think it has no integrated graphics however we tried plugging in a HDMI cable into the motherboard output and that also still has a black screen with no video being detected by the monitor. The GPU has been tried with a Display Port and HDMI and they seem to not have worked He's tried: Reseating the GPU (until it clicks into place) Connecting into the CPU Using different cables in the GPU I'd try and help but he lives a bit far and I don't really have a car Thanks for the help guys in advance

I have no idea which part of my build is giving me these graphical glitches... I've read online that when purple/green appears it's an indicator of a bad GPU...? My exhaust case fan on the back is spoilt so I manually spin it with a stick everytime I boot up my PC (thankfully it continues spinning after that) so could it be a case of GPU being thermally throttled? Here are some screenshots for reference. Since I bought my pre-built system from a vendor I can't RMA my GPU directly from the manufacturer, and my 3-year warranty with the vendor has expired. CPU: Intel i5-8400 Cooler: Intel stock air cooler MOBO: ASRock Z370M Pro4 GPU: Nvidia Geforce GTX 1060 6GB RAM: 1 x 8GB ADATA 2400 mhz SSD: 120GB KLEVV NEO N600 M.2 HDD: 1TB Toshiba DT01ACA100 PSU: EVGA 450w Bronze+ OS: Windows 10 64-bit BIOS: P1.40

Hi, please can someone help. My son has an MSI Aegis 3 gaming computer, it is now running slow on the latest online games. He wants to upgrade the graphics card, can I upgrade it from Nvidia GeForce GTX 1060 to RTX 3060? What else will I need to do to it or is it just a case of swapping them out? HELP! HELP! HELP! PLEASE! PLEASE!

So after some digging, a hard to describe problem became an obvious problem of compatibility of old intel drivers with "modern" windows 10. The issue is that there is no compatible drivers for intel hd graphics 3000 for windows 10. And basically any newest or past version of drivers for that gpu that i used yield same results, it displays fine until you restart the pc. Then instead of a login screen you are welcomed by a black screen until sleep and wakeup which i would guess somehow refreshes the drivers or makes them reload or somehing. A fresh cold start is fine, the restart is whats the problem. Any ideas how to workaround incompatible drivers?

Hey, I've been looking into mini computer builds and while scouring the plethora of SBC computers and Nucs. The Mac mini is a powerhouse in terms of CPU, 3.0 GHz Intel "Core i7" (4578U) processor, and 16 GBLPDDR3 SDRAM Could one use an adapter to say 3.0 PCie X16 with the PCIE ssd port built into the motherboard? Thereby running a graphics card without the need of some external hub.

HELP! Idk what else I can try. As seen in the link below, my main display will randomly go black for a few seconds and then come back. This ONLY occurs while gaming and only if my 3rd monitor (on the right) is turned on. Video: https://imgur.com/a/YUjvFqc All monitors are Alienware 240hz 25inch Gaming panels PC: i5-8600k gtx1080 16gb RAM at 3200 850W Gold PSU The attached image also shows the monitoring just after the issue occurred, however on many occasions I do see both my CPU and GPU usage going to 99% for a short time. Troubleshooting: I have tried 4 different displayport cables & 2 HDMI cables Reseated the CPU and RAM Turned Off right monitor (current workaround and the issue does not occur) Any help would be greatly appreciated, if you need any more details please let me know!