Artifacting, then ok ???

[Michaeljcox24]

Last night something happened to my 690 that worried me a lot. I had been out and came back to have a blast on Batman AO. When I booted up the rig, it posted, but then the screen went black before windows loaded.

Upon a reboot I had half a screen of red vertical lines, and on a 2nd reboot I had horizontal blue lines when I to get into the bios. The screen also intermittently went blank while I was doing this.

So I re seated the card, re seated the power cables the first time, and nothing changed. Tried a 2nd time, 3rd time, and eventually, the 4th time it booted ok and now I'm writing this post from the rig in question.

I have no idea what could cause it, I hadn't been messing with anything prior, infact I haven't opened up the rig since I put the card in it in Feb (it's w/c so I prefer not to mess too much)

Has anyone had a similar experience?

 

[Rastalovich]

With cards in general - sometimes yes.

It can be that the cooling isn't correct, and possible that on the last attempt to boot, which was successful, that you inadvertently "pushed a cooling pad back into position".

Sounds silly, but it happens amongst heated areas.

 

[Michaeljcox24]

It was one of those moments when you just sit there and think 'ohhhhhhh ****'.

 

[Rastalovich]

Yeah. Thing I'd have in the back of my head is that it may happen again, and if it happens more and more frequently, I'd fear for the card's health.

 

[KING_OF_SAND]

This has been a common problem with the 680 series cards, so I am guessing it is no different for the 690. It is a driver issue.

 

[Michaeljcox24]

I thought it was, but it was doing it during posting

 

[KING_OF_SAND]

I thought it was, but it was doing it during posting

Have you tried a different display output?
Different cable?

Sacrificing a goat?
Offering it virgin blood?

 

[Michaeljcox24]

No, I haven't tried that yet. Only because it's working now though, and hasn't artifacted since.

Next time it happens, I will try it. Thanks.

 

[Damien c]

I had problems yesterday with my 680's to the point I thought they were dying on me, this morning though I have been doing some testing including another reinstall of windows etc and was still getting the issues.

Put the air coolers back on them and tested them and they were fine, put the waterblocks back on and they are still fine.

I had to nip out this morning so I left Furmark running and it's still running now, going to leave it running for a few hours and see how they hold up.