Graphics Card Artifacting Problems

[Earl_of_Madness]

Hey Everyone, I have been having some recent problems with my PC.  The constant problems started sometime late last year when my power supply catastrophically failed. The PC has been having one problem after the next ever since.  About 4-5 months after the PSU was RMA'd and replaced my GTX580 began artifacting heavily and showing signs of dying, drives would crash and heavy artifacting would occur on the Bios Screen. Red or white horizontal bars up and down the screen. forming colums every 2 inches or so. That was RMAd earlier in the year around june.  I was away for work so I didn't get to test it until I got back.  The new GTX760 i was sent appeared to work perfectly for about 2 days and then a similar problem cropped up.  Heavy artifacting on just the desktop like in the image I have posted.  The Bios screen has heavy artifacting in the form of red horizontal lines each fairly long and forming colums all the way up and down the display.  The drivers crash after the artifacting occurs and sometimes that results in a restart.

 

During my own tests both in HW monitor and in the Bios my PSU voltages all appear to be well within range and spec of about plus or minus 5% and do not fluctuate rapidly.  I need to run a CPU and GPU stress test later but I was running Memtest86 thinking it is mobo or RAM problem and there was an error during test 13 the hammer test.  I need to do more tests to see if it is repeatable but that is something in addition, the errors seem to go away if i lightly push on the gpu but they only go away temporarily.  in addition during memtest there is a little bit of discoloration like some whites were a bit bluer after the error was posted. I have tested this in a different pci-e slot with the same problems occurring.   

 

I don't want to replace my mobo or CPU if at all possible since that will be the most expensive fix, but if that is the root i might just have to.

 

my specs are:

 

Asus Rampage IV

i7-3930k stock (was at 4.0 Ghz)

GTX 760 (formerly 580)

32 GB Gskill RipJawsZ

Enermax 1350W psu (overkill but i was planning to SLI a broken case during tansit drained some of those funds)

Kingston HyperX 128GB hard drive

2TB Western Digital Caviar Black

 

I know this seems overkill for a PC but this was a simulation computer not just a gaming rig, gaming was just a nice thing it could also do. 

[Darkman]

try a different cable, sometimes it can do that.

 

My mini hdmi to hdmi adapter did this to my other rig.

 

If it isn't that, my only thoughts are the ram or motherboard. Before I reseated my ram this happened in my bios and I'd lock up.

 

Did you try integrated on your cpu to see if it persisted?

 

 

 

 

Edit: Seeing that memtest made the ram throw up an error, try a single stick instead of multiple. And if you have any different ram lying around try that.

 

btw, G.Skill is supposed to have lifetime warranty on ram.

Edited August 19, 2015 by Darkman

[MegabassNote]

Hey Everyone, I have been having some recent problems with my PC.  The constant problems started sometime late last year when my power supply catastrophically failed. The PC has been having one problem after the next ever since.  About 4-5 months after the PSU was RMA'd and replaced my GTX580 began artifacting heavily and showing signs of dying, drives would crash and heavy artifacting would occur on the Bios Screen. Red or white horizontal bars up and down the screen. forming colums every 2 inches or so. That was RMAd earlier in the year around june.  I was away for work so I didn't get to test it until I got back.  The new GTX760 i was sent appeared to work perfectly for about 2 days and then a similar problem cropped up.  Heavy artifacting on just the desktop like in the image I have posted.  The Bios screen has heavy artifacting in the form of red horizontal lines each fairly long and forming colums all the way up and down the display.  The drivers crash after the artifacting occurs and sometimes that results in a restart.

 

During my own tests both in HW monitor and in the Bios my PSU voltages all appear to be well within range and spec of about plus or minus 5% and do not fluctuate rapidly.  I need to run a CPU and GPU stress test later but I was running Memtest86 thinking it is mobo or RAM problem and there was an error during test 13 the hammer test.  I need to do more tests to see if it is repeatable but that is something in addition, the errors seem to go away if i lightly push on the gpu but they only go away temporarily.  in addition during memtest there is a little bit of discoloration like some whites were a bit bluer after the error was posted. I have tested this in a different pci-e slot with the same problems occurring.   

 

I don't want to replace my mobo or CPU if at all possible since that will be the most expensive fix, but if that is the root i might just have to.

 

my specs are:

 

Asus Rampage IV

i7-3930k stock (was at 4.0 Ghz)

GTX 760 (formerly 580)

32 GB Gskill RipJawsZ

Enermax 1350W psu (overkill but i was planning to SLI a broken case during tansit drained some of those funds)

Kingston HyperX 128GB hard drive

2TB Western Digital Caviar Black

 

I know this seems overkill for a PC but this was a simulation computer not just a gaming rig, gaming was just a nice thing it could also do. 

 

It's possible your old power supply may have damaged your components before or during it's death. You're gpu definitely looks like a lost cause, but if you have stable voltages, your Motherboard may be alright.

[Earl_of_Madness]

Well replaced the cable (dvi), with a completely new one (hdmi), and tried to get memtest to run again.  Now the artifacting is occuring during memtest and on boot during bios immediately without any rhyme or reason. This cable works too, I use it for my TV and laptop for movies. with the DVI cable the artifacting was less now i can't get it to go away.  I'll leave it for 24 hours unplugged to see if that changes anything.  Last time I saw this issue it did seem to help temporarily when I left it off for a day or so. Again one error during memtest, I need to do another one tomorrow.

 

Its looking more and more like a Mobo, CPU or PSU error with every test, I hope it is none of these because all except the PSU are out of warrenty and I just replaced the PSU. 

[Darkman]

Well replaced the cable (dvi), with a completely new one (hdmi), and tried to get memtest to run again.  Now the artifacting is occuring during memtest and on boot during bios immediately without any rhyme or reason. This cable works too, I use it for my TV and laptop for movies. with the DVI cable the artifacting was less now i can't get it to go away.  I'll leave it for 24 hours unplugged to see if that changes anything.  Last time I saw this issue it did seem to help temporarily when I left it off for a day or so. Again one error during memtest, I need to do another one tomorrow.

 

Its looking more and more like a Mobo, CPU or PSU error with every test, I hope it is none of these because all except the PSU are out of warrenty and I just replaced the PSU. 

If you got it to pop up an error in memtest, try 1 stick of ram, and try every stick alone...