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Posted: Sun Apr 30, 2017 5:26 pm     Super secret spam barrier
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At the start of OP Joint Tiger my screen started jumping around and flickering, then after a couple of seconds went to horizontal (I think they were blue and grey) stripes and I had to reboot. After I rebooted it all looked normal till I started arma again then the same thing happened. However, after tabbing out of arma it was fine, I updated my drivers even though I thought this was my GPU dying (it's five years old I think) and then restarted pc and arma and same things happened.

I then decided to leave my computer alone and went off for a few hours I came back and my PC wouldn't even turn on, It said it was trying to diagnose and then fix problems in the C: drive but that didn't do anything. I have now disconnected my GPU and computer works fine (I am now even more certain that this is a GPU issue and it has served me well so I am not that upset). I'm posting this here to see if anyone has any other ideas or a possible fix for this issue short of buying a new GPU.

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Posted: Sun Apr 30, 2017 5:29 pm     Super secret spam barrier
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Pretty sure that's a dead GPU unfortunately, I've seen it before.

Just double check you're not overclocking, have good voltage output from the PSU to the card, that your fans are spinning, air vents clear and nothing too hot to touch.


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I have never overclocked my GPU, fans were spinning and not hot to the touch

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Posted: Mon May 01, 2017 11:46 am     Super secret spam barrier
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What GPU?


1. Check cables.
2. Re-install drivers.

If both of those don't work you could try giving it a bake.
Since if you are going to be using it as a coaster might aswell have tried everything before.


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It is an "AMD RADEON HD 7850" 

Done steps 1 and 2 but not tried the oven thing, has anyone done that before? Curious if it's just internet rumours or not


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1/5 chance of it working what your basically doing by baking is resoldering the connections.

7850 probably is more then a few years old by now and probably at the end of its life circle.


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Yeah I've had it for ages, not really surprised it's decided to die


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i did this oven thing with some ssds and even two microsd cards.
overall i had a great success, but you cant recover any hardware with it.
as guipo mentioned it will only resolder broken connections....

i would say before you throw it into the g arbage its worth a try,
but this will be alot of work because you have to remove almost everything from  the card.
dont try the oven if you dont want to disassemble your card :)


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Strange. Same problem happened with my GTX 680 a few months back, when I was playing ArmA 3 also.

Now the picture has stopped working entirely, and I'm waiting for my 1080 to arrive. Your cards gone kaput, mate. Best to get yourself a new one

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Thread hijacking. :D

So my old GPU died yesterday. It was a ASUS R9 280 from 2014. It served me well, but I think lately it also reached it's limits. So the price range I could afford is about 150-170€. I don't really have a preference for Nvidia or AMD. I was using AMD for the last years AMD and I would not mind having a look what the green guys can do.

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