Sapphire HD7850 OC Gpu-z Bug or defective card??)

[KillerSupra]

Hello guys, i have a Sapphire HD7850 OC that was bought in July 2012. During the first month it was normal to have black screens with the fan at 100% at windows login, but i think it was probably a driver issue because that didn't happen anymore since catalyst 12.8.

On the other side, GPU-Z always reported some strange things at startup that didn't go away with newer versions of catalyst and neither of GPU-Z.

Here are some screenshots which illustrate what i mean by "strange things".

https://www.dropbox.com/s/vyw6ygqxf5exlhf/Sapphire HD 7850 OC gpu-z 1.gif

https://www.dropbox.com/s/2m0kefm00stao3f/Sapphire HD 7850 OC gpu-z 2.png

https://www.dropbox.com/s/mmllkv07ksrsblu/Sapphire HD 7850 OC gpu-z 3.png

https://www.dropbox.com/s/dk15zlgyo3nnftr/Sapphire HD 7850 OC gpu-z 4.gif

Here goes a screenshot of GPU-Z when it's closed and opened again:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/ym1t4aj8a16f8i7/Sapphire HD 7850 OC gpu-z normal.gif

As you can see the stats are "normal" and the things you can see above can't be replicated during Windows, unless i restart the computer, and even doing it, the "bug" doesn't always occurs!

Could this be a GPU-Z bug or could this be a defective card / defective memory chips? Should i contact Sapphire for an RMA?

If someone can answer me and easy my mind i would be very grateful! Thank you guys!

Carlos

 

[W1zzard]

That happens when GPU-Z can't properly read the BIOS. Strange thing is that reading the BIOS version (mostly) works. Maybe some other application is trying to read the BIOS at the same time during startup?

 

[KillerSupra]

Not that i know of, the only application that opens too at startup is my anti-virus (ESET NOD32), i always excluded the catalyst control center from startup but there is a process opened (atiedxx.exe).

Edit: I've been wandering in Sapphire website and found an application called Trixx and it shows the card stats kinda like the first page of GPU-Z. I don't think GPU-Z has any kind of bug because Trixx showed incorrect stats too (and even weirder)-> https://www.dropbox.com/s/8yf9cu0rxh8yc5l/Trixx.png