Pixelated screen followed by blue screen and restart

Nick259 · Mar 23, 2010, 06:52 PM

Ok, my friend is having a bit of a problem with his pc. A few months ago he was getting a similar issue, his screen was pixelated and went black after a while. I bought him a new graphics card (4870), psu (460w tagan) and 2gb more ram. However, just recently he has started to get that problem back. When he boots up it is ok for a few mins and then it starts to go all pixelated and he gets the blue screen of death and then it continues to restart. The 4870 has been fine thus far and has a good cooler on it, it might have came loose? Could faulty RAM cause this problem?

r9 · Mar 23, 2010, 07:05 PM

I would say the memory of the VGA card. If the problem is just on desktop and can run games fine could be Powerplay problem it could setting frequencies and voltages at witch VGA is unstable.

Black Panther · Mar 23, 2010, 07:14 PM

Straight from AMD's site:

Quote:

ATI Radeon™ HD 4870 System Requirements

* 500 Watt or greater power supply with two 75W 6-pin PCI Express® power connectors recommended

It's true that Tagan are good PSU's but it's being stressed out.

Sasqui · Mar 23, 2010, 07:27 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Black Panther

Straight from AMD's site:

It's true that Tagan are good PSU's but it's being stressed out.

If it's not in 3D mode, I'd doubt the PSU is lacking - I do agree it's not enough. I had a 4870 and know the system will draw upwards of 450 under heavy gaming loads.

Bad RAM can and has been the cause of some video issues in the past (though rare). The video BIOS is copied to RAM on boot for preformance resons. It's called "shadowing". If the RAM is bad, it can certainly lead to a video failure.

Yukikaze · Mar 23, 2010, 07:51 PM

I have a friend running two HD4830s and a Q6700 off a Tagan 500W PSU. I am not sure the PSU is the culprit here.

erocker · Mar 23, 2010, 07:52 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Nick259

Could faulty RAM cause this problem?

Have you run MemTest to find out? Test your hardware to narrow it down. All we can do is guess.

Nick259 · Mar 23, 2010, 08:22 PM

Will take over a 3850 at the weekend and try putting that in. Will also try memtest.

Could there be a fault with the motherboard which has messed with the card?

tigger · Mar 23, 2010, 08:29 PM

I'm using a corsair hx520 and a 4870 512mb with no problems.

Kenshai · Mar 23, 2010, 08:37 PM

What's in the system? Would be important to get all that first.

Nick259 · Mar 23, 2010, 09:06 PM

generic ASUS G33 mobo
6550 2.33ghz not overclocked
4gb ram (2gb kingston with heatspreaders + 2gb generic no heatspreaders)
320gb hdd
4870 512mb not overclocked with accelero cooler

Sasqui · Mar 23, 2010, 09:14 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Nick259

generic ASUS G33 mobo
6550 2.33ghz not overclocked
4gb ram (2gb kingston with heatspreaders + 2gb generic no heatspreaders)
320gb hdd
4870 512mb not overclocked with accelero cooler

Try taking out the generic RAM and see how she behaves.

If that's not it, try running the generic RAM by itself.

If that's not it, use a hammer.

Yukikaze · Mar 23, 2010, 09:16 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Sasqui

If that's not it, use a hammer.

There's no kill like overkill...

Sasqui · Mar 23, 2010, 09:21 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Yukikaze

There's no kill like overkill...

Anything worth killing is worth overkilling, LOL.

Oh, one other mention of video card overheating above. Should run GPUz at startup and monitor the temps. That could be the another possibility.

Yukikaze · Mar 23, 2010, 09:24 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Sasqui

Anything worth killing is worth overkilling, LOL.

Hell yes.

This problem can be pretty much anything in the system...mobo, PSU, GPU, RAM...

Mar 23, 2010, 06:52 PM	#1
Nick259 Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Scotland Posts: 995 (0.53/day) Thanks: 256 Thanked 170 Times in 104 Posts System Specs	Pixelated screen followed by blue screen and restart Ok, my friend is having a bit of a problem with his pc. A few months ago he was getting a similar issue, his screen was pixelated and went black after a while. I bought him a new graphics card (4870), psu (460w tagan) and 2gb more ram. However, just recently he has started to get that problem back. When he boots up it is ok for a few mins and then it starts to go all pixelated and he gets the blue screen of death and then it continues to restart. The 4870 has been fine thus far and has a good cooler on it, it might have came loose? Could faulty RAM cause this problem?

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Mar 23, 2010, 07:05 PM	#2
r9 Join Date: Jul 2008 Posts: 2,052 (1.17/day) Thanks: 260 Thanked 286 Times in 258 Posts System Specs	I would say the memory of the VGA card. If the problem is just on desktop and can run games fine could be Powerplay problem it could setting frequencies and voltages at witch VGA is unstable. __________________ “personally i think 3D is gay, but if it leads us closer towards holographic video then i am all for it!” -Easy Rhino

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Mar 23, 2010, 07:51 PM	#5
Yukikaze Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Jerusalem, Israel Posts: 2,121 (1.25/day) Thanks: 213 Thanked 481 Times in 347 Posts System Specs	I have a friend running two HD4830s and a Q6700 off a Tagan 500W PSU. I am not sure the PSU is the culprit here. __________________ Cameron: Core i7 2600K 4.5Ghz, MCR220, 2xMCR120, MCP655, ASRock P67 Extreme4, 4GB DDR3, 2xOCZ Vertex 30GB RAID0, GTX470, 2xHD5670, Modu82+ 625W, TT Xaser VI. Neuromancer: Core i7 975, DFI DK X58-T3eH6, 12GB DDR3 1333Mhz CL6-6-6-15-1T, 3x9600GSO 384MB, Hiper 880W, TT Xaser VI. Administrator of a 40 core Hadoop cluster.

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Mar 23, 2010, 08:22 PM	#7
Nick259 Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Scotland Posts: 995 (0.53/day) Thanks: 256 Thanked 170 Times in 104 Posts System Specs	Will take over a 3850 at the weekend and try putting that in. Will also try memtest. Could there be a fault with the motherboard which has messed with the card?

Mar 23, 2010, 08:29 PM	#8
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Mar 23, 2010, 08:37 PM	#9
Kenshai Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Raleigh, North Carolina Posts: 1,582 (0.83/day) Thanks: 92 Thanked 223 Times in 207 Posts System Specs	What's in the system? Would be important to get all that first.

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Mar 23, 2010, 09:06 PM	#10
Nick259 Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Scotland Posts: 995 (0.53/day) Thanks: 256 Thanked 170 Times in 104 Posts System Specs	generic ASUS G33 mobo 6550 2.33ghz not overclocked 4gb ram (2gb kingston with heatspreaders + 2gb generic no heatspreaders) 320gb hdd 4870 512mb not overclocked with accelero cooler

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