Weird GPU artifacts fix

SmeldorTheEmperor · January 6, 2022

Hello im new to this form and a long time LTT follower. Today a little story about some gpu trouble i had.

So im specialized in buying second hand for cheap and reselling it in a pc with everything like new. I found a seller for an asus rx 570 4gb. He sold it me for cheap(80 euro in dollars close to 90 i think).

Now the story, So i combined it in a pc with the following components: ryzen 1600, msi b350, 8gb ran, a little ssd of 120gb, 1tb and a corsair cx500. Also an old sharkoon case with yeah a dvd reader/writer.

When time to test the system it worked fine. But i got random artifacts. These were pretty frequent and wouldn't always crash the gpu. After a while the system could recover without a restart. The following video will show what i mean

What did i try:

restarting
changing the psu
reinstalling the drivers
reinstalling windows
chaning the power limit, clocks on the card
use the gpu in another system(this weirdly didnt gave me any artifacts)

So after that information i knew it had to be something with the gpu drivers. I saw a post somewhere that these amd gpus had a one point problems with drivers crashing. Reinstalling did nothing, i knew that the person i bought it froim said that he got it from a miner and changed the bios on the gpu. But apparantly there were still some problems(idk maybe a bit flip or just a wrong bios that just worked).

So i got to study how to change the bios for a gpu, readed a lot on https://www.techpowerup.com/. Learned to save the old gpu driver with gpu-z(VERY IMPORTANT) and uploading a new driver. After doing that this problem went away. I did lots of tests to confirm this(gaming and stress tests).

So fellow pc builders/technicians, when you are out of options this could maybe be a fix for your old (maybe broken) gpu.

Also i told the guy i bought it from and showed him what problem i got, and he told me he would take the card if i couldn't find the problem, friendly guy

Hope you guys like the little story!