Artifacts on 9600gt even at bootscreen

kns · May 30, 2010

I have 9600gt card and its showing some artifacts in windows in the upper portion of the screen. The artifacts are present even on boot screen and bios screen. Images attached below. It all started after the system was shut down due to power cut. And now in Gpuz it never reports the Gpu load or the memory controller load or the video engine load, its always 0 no matter i play a game or anything. Is this a software issue or is my gpu damaged?

system :
Intel e7400
Gigabyte g31m-s2l mobo
2X2g Transcend 800mhzDDr2 @ 667mhz
Xfx 9600gt
450watt supply

v12dock · May 30, 2010

Time to bake this gpu :rockout:

kns · May 30, 2010

v12dock said:
Time to bake this gpu

i dont think i would be able to do that..
so this is a GPU hardware problem??

can it be repaired other than baking?

lyndonguitar · May 30, 2010

whats you PSU? is it branded?

Black Panther · May 30, 2010

Try to test the system with another PSU.
It might be that the power-cut damaged the PSU and it is not delivering enough for the 9600GT now.

xBruce88x · May 30, 2010

yea your psu could be damaged, or possibly the card got damaged during the power cut. if you ahve a spare power supply try testing it with that. the 9600gt itself only needs 8amps on the 12v (96w max / 12v @stock clocks) so you don't need a real powerful psu. although due to lack of info being shown on gpu-z suddenly, ima have to go with gpu damage, it seems to me that maybe sensors on the card got damages and perhaps other parts of the card. you may want to run memory and cpu tests to check those for damage as well.

kns · May 30, 2010

thanks for the replies guys..
i dont have a spare psu..

and 1 more weird thing, gpuz starts reporting the gpu,memory controller,video engine load if i overclock the card and even reports if i again bring it down to stock.. but it wont again at next reboot unless i again just overclock it..

Mussels · May 30, 2010

at a guess, the cards damaged.

JrRacinFan · May 30, 2010

With the power being cut it could be the board and/or the power supply is damaged. Although even with that said, I had this happen and it ended up in a video card RMA. Try a different power supply if you can like others suggested but I highly doubt that will get you anywhere.

mdsx1950 · May 30, 2010

That PSU should be fine as my friend is running an e7500 and 9600GT on a 300w PSU with no problems at all. Its probably the card.

kns · May 30, 2010

ok.. if its the card, then are such cards usually repairable or do i need to go for a new card?
also maybe will i check the card in my friend's system and see..

lyndonguitar · May 30, 2010

kns said:
ok.. if its the card, then are such cards usually repairable or do i need to go for a new card?
also maybe will i check the card in my friend's system and see..

right thing to do, if youre out of warranty, just buy a new card. cards faster than 9600GT are cheap nowadays. because the Nvidia 9xxx series is last last gen.

Try to find some cheap 2xx deals of better if the 5xxx series or wait for 4xx low end cards.

JrRacinFan · May 30, 2010

Speaking of which, I do have my 9600GT for sale. Open to which you are in the CONUS (Preferably East coast).

kns · May 30, 2010

do the artifacts get again worse later?? as of now there are isnt anything much in windows as shown in screenshots.. because i think i need to stick to this card itself for sometime..

mdsx1950 · May 30, 2010

kns said:
do the artifacts get again worse later?? as of now there are isnt anything much in windows as shown in screenshots.. because i think i need to stick to this card itself for sometime..

kns. How hot does the card run?

kns · May 30, 2010

mdsx1950 said:
kns. How hot does the card run?

49-51 at idle
70-73 at full load (used furmark for 22mins) at 60-63% fan speed.

one more thing..
the card is connected using dual molex to pcie connector.. but only one molex is connected to the psu.. i hope this is ok.. have been runnning the system like this for a year till now without any problem..

WSP · May 30, 2010

either the gpu or vram is in trouble. I've experienced a kind of problem like this on my HD4830.It suddenly giving artifacts all around the screen, and reporting hot temperature.
My solution is by blowing hot air to the gpu and vram area (I do that with heat blower,usually used to remove/plant chips). If you dont have one, try baking the vga for 15-20 minutes.
I suspect that the soldering on the gpu or vram goes bad (cracking).

Now my HD4830 live again with that kind of technique.Even now I used it to post this message

lyndonguitar · May 31, 2010

I have just remembered, i had this problem too on my Old Radeon 9550, Artifacts everywhere even on thr BIOS. the problem is the GPU like WSP said but i didn't bake it because i was younger then and just bought a new Vcard/

Mussels · May 31, 2010

kns said:
49-51 at idle
70-73 at full load (used furmark for 22mins) at 60-63% fan speed.

one more thing..
the card is connected using dual molex to pcie connector.. but only one molex is connected to the psu.. i hope this is ok.. have been runnning the system like this for a year till now without any problem..

you really should have had both, that may be related to why the cards taken damage when the power went out.

its likely the card is just stuffed now, and nothing can fix it. baking it has a small chance, but its likely you need a new card.

eidairaman1 · May 31, 2010

only time i have ever had artifacting was when I wasnt getting proper power to the video card, which would usually occur after a brown out

lyndonguitar · May 31, 2010

eidairaman1 said:
only time i have ever had artifacting was when I wasnt getting proper power to the video card, which would usually occur after a brown out

problem solved. :toast:

connect all molex, then try if it works.

mdsx1950 · May 31, 2010

kns said:
49-51 at idle
70-73 at full load (used furmark for 22mins) at 60-63% fan speed.

one more thing..
the card is connected using dual molex to pcie connector.. but only one molex is connected to the psu.. i hope this is ok.. have been runnning the system like this for a year till now without any problem..

No wonder man. Thats the problem. Fix both and try. And your temps are safe but try to get it down to about 60. My friend has a Manli 9600GT which comes with Arctic Cooling and that runs at about 56c at max load on 50%fan speed.

kns · May 31, 2010

Nope guys connecting the other molex didnt fix anything.. Guess the card is really damaged..
anyway will use it the way it is now..

@mdsx1950:
i noticed that u are running a hd5750 on a 450w psu.. is the psu a generic one or a pure branded one?

mdsx1950 · May 31, 2010

kns said:
@mdsx1950:
i noticed that u are running a hd5750 on a 450w psu.. is the psu a generic one or a pure branded one?

Oh shit time to update my specs on the signature. My earlier PSU got burnt. Now using a generic 300W PSU. It works fine with the 5750 since it doesn't draw so much power. One of friends is running a 9600GT on a generic 300W PSU as well.

kns · May 31, 2010

mdsx1950 said:
Oh shit time to update my specs on the signature. My earlier PSU got burnt. Now using a generic 300W PSU. It works fine with the 5750 since it doesn't draw so much power. One of friends is running a 9600GT on a generic 300W PSU as well.

Oh thats really cool.. the card is really good on performance when compared to 9600gt and its also isnt so powerhungry..

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