Dead GPU?

[blimeyomega]

Hello all,

 

Just needed some help with this..

 

Currently, I only play a old game of Company of Heroes on my rig along with mainly software editing tools such as Photoshop. However, I have occasionally experienced game crashes once or twice in the past week. Everything else ran fine and I dismissed it as a minor software issue. 

 

Only today, my game crashed two times straight with bugsplats. I did a clean reinstall of the game and updated the drivers afterwards only for it to crash again. This time however, AMD display did not recover after the game crash. This continued after two reboot of the PC where bugsplats appeared in the Bios as well as desktop.

 

As the GPU is exactly 4 years old so I was wondering if this could be a faulty dead card? Model is Sapphire HD 6850 and I am running a Windows 7 PC.

 

 

Any help would be appreciated! 

Thank you:)

[DeViLzzz]

Did you try the GPU in a different slot?  Also as a last resort you can try baking the card.  As for bug splat or whatever do you mean it showed error codes?  If so could you share them with us?

[monaka25]

Gpu's don't "just break". Most other components don't "just break" either. First, whats your specs? And whats the error reports when the game crashes? Also, do you have any other cards to test with? Sorry if I sound rude 

[blimeyomega]

Did you try the GPU in a different slot?  Also as a last resort you can try baking the card.  As for bug splat or whatever do you mean it showed error codes?  If so could you share them with us?

 

 

 

Gpu's don't "just break". Most other components don't "just break" either. First, whats your specs? And whats the error reports when the game crashes? Also, do you have any other cards to test with? Sorry if I sound rude 

 

My motherboard only has 1 x16 slot (Sorry I maybe a lil rusty on whether other slots works). As for error code, there wasn't any apart from "AMD display has crashed and recovered" something along those lines. I apologize for using the term "Bugsplat" there wasnt any and I got confused. 

 

Heres an attached link to the kind of issue I have been receiving

 

https://www.dropbox.com/s/5d9flyo9xmqsaq3/received_10203753806993751.jpeg?dl=0

 

Unfortunately I do not have another card and my specs are

 

Intel I5 2500k

MSI P67A C45

Sapphire HD raedeon 6850

Crucial M500 

Windows 7 

[monaka25]

My motherboard only has 1 x16 slot (Sorry I maybe a lil rusty on whether other slots works). As for error code, there wasn't any apart from "AMD display has crashed and recovered" something along those lines. I apologize for using the term "Bugsplat" there wasnt any and I got confused. 

 

Heres an attached link to the kind of issue I have been receiving

 

https://www.dropbox.com/s/5d9flyo9xmqsaq3/received_10203753806993751.jpeg?dl=0

 

Unfortunately I do not have another card and my specs are

 

Intel I5 2500k

MSI P67A C45

Sapphire HD raedeon 6850

Crucial M500 

Windows 7 

Hmm.. Ok. That picture tho... I think it is a graphical problem.. If you don't mind waiting.. you can probably find a cheap cheap video card on craigslist or even cheaper, ebay. Here is one. Its cheap, and I believe it works, throw this in and try running a game.. obviously you'll get extreme lag, but see if it crashes or not. http://www.ebay.com/itm/ATI-Radeon-X1300-Pro-256MB-109-A92431-20-DVI-S-Video-PCI-e-Dell-GJ501-0GJ501-/311302626417?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item487b151c71   Ik waiting for shipping sucks  <_<

[DeViLzzz]

You can put it in other pci-e slots.  Try that and see if the 16x one you were using was faulty.

[CBogle]

That picture sure looks like a Graphical Error overlaying the Blue Screen of Death.


Just a shot in that dark here but, if it's only happening during gaming it may be over-heating due to dust build-up beneath the fan housing.
Take the card out and check / blow out all the dust and gunk and then re-install the card and try again.

[blimeyomega]

Hmm.. Ok. That picture tho... I think it is a graphical problem.. If you don't mind waiting.. you can probably find a cheap cheap video card on craigslist or even cheaper, ebay. Here is one. Its cheap, and I believe it works, throw this in and try running a game.. obviously you'll get extreme lag, but see if it crashes or not. http://www.ebay.com/itm/ATI-Radeon-X1300-Pro-256MB-109-A92431-20-DVI-S-Video-PCI-e-Dell-GJ501-0GJ501-/311302626417?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item487b151c71   Ik waiting for shipping sucks  <_<

 

 

You can put it in other pci-e slots.  Try that and see if the 16x one you were using was faulty.

 

Basically, what i have done was, 

 

scavenged an old ATI X1550(I think? ha) from a forgotten computer at home and plugged it into the same 16x Slot, everything looks fine for now..

 

That picture sure looks like a Graphical Error overlaying the Blue Screen of Death.

Just a shot in that dark here but, if it's only happening during gaming it may be over-heating due to dust build-up beneath the fan housing.

Take the card out and check / blow out all the dust and gunk and then re-install the card and try again.

 

It was a crash dump screen just to let you know