Red lines down screen

[Charmeleonnz]

Hi there,

I have a AMD R9 280 that I purchased with a pc.

When I plugged it into my pc, there was red lines down the screen. I managed to get into windows and installed the AMD drivers. It crashed during that process then I ran into issues where I was getting an BSOD with irascible boot device. Afrer multiple reboots I got into windows and the driver was installed. The lines has disappeared, plus I ran MSI KomBustor to check for artifacts and it couldn't find any.

I assume the GPU is still dying just slowly but what do you think? Worth trying to keep it or just get rid of it?

Thanks :)

[Red_Fox_1293]

can you send me a picture of what the screen looks like? also, if you can, try running some gpu stress test to see If it crashed. also, can you send me a picture of the card and maybe send temps and clock speed?

[Charmeleonnz]

12 minutes ago, Red_Fox_1293 said:

can you send me a picture of what the screen looks like? also, if you can, try running some gpu stress test to see If it crashed. also, can you send me a picture of the card and maybe send temps and clock speed?

Sadly I never got a photo but it looked basically like this: 

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The photo of the temps and of the card are below

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[Letgomyleghoe]

looks like VRAM artifacting, not surprising on an old r9 card.

have you tried using a new monitor/tv to tell if the issue is your monitor?

[Red_Fox_1293]

I agree with the guy above. probs a vram thing, probs get a new card

[Charmeleonnz]

5 minutes ago, Letgomyleghoe said:

looks like VRAM artifacting, not surprising on an old r9 card.

have you tried using a new monitor/tv to tell if the issue is your monitor?

Yip, i tried another monitor but same thing. But now it is working fine, I tried GTA V and it seemed to be all good. I'm going off that it's still probably faulty though.

[Charmeleonnz]

4 minutes ago, Red_Fox_1293 said:

I agree with the guy above. probs a vram thing, probs get a new card

Sounds like a plan lol. Ill just sell it asap and then stick to my other gpu. Thanks for the help

[Letgomyleghoe]

13 minutes ago, Charmeleonnz said:

Yip, i tried another monitor but same thing. But now it is working fine, I tried GTA V and it seemed to be all good. I'm going off that it's still probably faulty though.

yup, that would be a vram issue then, it will probably happen on and off and slowly get worse until it dies, best just to look for a new card if you can.

[Charmeleonnz]

1 hour ago, Letgomyleghoe said:

yup, that would be a vram issue then, it will probably happen on and off and slowly get worse until it dies, best just to look for a new card if you can.

Ill just stick with my 660 until gpu prices are not crazy. Thanks for the help