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System Name | War Daddy |
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Processor | Intel Core i7-950 @4.1GHz |
Motherboard | ASUS SABERTOOTH X58 |
Cooling | Cryorig R1 |
Memory | 3x4GB SAMSUNG DDR3 1600MHz |
Video Card(s) | SAPPHIRE NITRO+ RX 570 8GB |
Storage | Segate barcuda 2TB |
Display(s) | SAMSUNG S24C750 |
Case | Corsair carbide spec 03 |
Power Supply | EVGA G3 650W |
Hi, guys!
I've just bought an used gtx 980, I installed it, powered up my machine, passed POST without any issues. But at the very first moment Windows gets involved, the screen turns into a rippling horizontal lines festival.
Since the problem didn't arose while POST nor in BIOS, by that time I was completely convinced it's a software-related problem, so I went ahead and cleaned my old AMD drivers, installed latest NVIDIA drivers, but that only made matters worse, now whenever I tries to boot up, Windows just crashes on the loading logo.
I uninstalled the drivers again so I can at least log into Windows, and now everything seems to be fine and fully stable without the driver, I even managed to watch some movies.
Here are a couple of things I'v noticed:
- Setting resolution above 800x600 makes the horizontal lines appear. (vRAM issue?)
- if I take a screenshot, these lines don't appear in that screenshot. looks like the problem is happening after the image gets computed internally, that led me to think it got something to do with TMDS, so I tried to connect the GPU over DVI-I to VGA converter to send the signal over RAMDAC but that got me nowhere.
I also tried to flash the latest BIOS provided by MSI.
Out of desperation, I decided to take the card apart to physically examine it, didn't notice anything bad except that vRAM chips had some oilly stains around it, I thought it could be flux and the previous owner had baked this card, but it looks like these stains are coming from the thermal pads which were so sticky and greasy, also the entire chip was extremely covered by a cheap thermal paste, I gave the card a nice alcohol bath, reapplied thermal paste and cleaned all the mess, but the problem still exists.
What do you think?
I've just bought an used gtx 980, I installed it, powered up my machine, passed POST without any issues. But at the very first moment Windows gets involved, the screen turns into a rippling horizontal lines festival.
Since the problem didn't arose while POST nor in BIOS, by that time I was completely convinced it's a software-related problem, so I went ahead and cleaned my old AMD drivers, installed latest NVIDIA drivers, but that only made matters worse, now whenever I tries to boot up, Windows just crashes on the loading logo.
I uninstalled the drivers again so I can at least log into Windows, and now everything seems to be fine and fully stable without the driver, I even managed to watch some movies.
Here are a couple of things I'v noticed:
- Setting resolution above 800x600 makes the horizontal lines appear. (vRAM issue?)
- if I take a screenshot, these lines don't appear in that screenshot. looks like the problem is happening after the image gets computed internally, that led me to think it got something to do with TMDS, so I tried to connect the GPU over DVI-I to VGA converter to send the signal over RAMDAC but that got me nowhere.
I also tried to flash the latest BIOS provided by MSI.
Out of desperation, I decided to take the card apart to physically examine it, didn't notice anything bad except that vRAM chips had some oilly stains around it, I thought it could be flux and the previous owner had baked this card, but it looks like these stains are coming from the thermal pads which were so sticky and greasy, also the entire chip was extremely covered by a cheap thermal paste, I gave the card a nice alcohol bath, reapplied thermal paste and cleaned all the mess, but the problem still exists.
What do you think?
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