Hi All,
So over the last week I've been having some issues with what I assume is my GPU. After doing a bunch of things to try and get it to work, I have come to the conclusion that my GPU is done for (~5-6 years old, using an R9 270x)
I installed the new driver for it on 05/26 and noticed issues while playing games, mainly WoW classic and very little during NBA2k.
While playing WoW I'd get random screen artifacts on my screen and eventually the whole screen would bug out, then my monitors would flash on/off and eventually my game would come back.
A few days of that led me up to last night where I was playing both WoW/NBA2K and the same thing happened. I eventually got off because it was happening more and more.
I woke up this morning and was on the PC for about 30 minutes (this time not playing any games) and when I just went to swap tabs in my browser, both my monitors just black/greyed out for about 2 minutes. I eventually tried to reboot, which gave me the screen you get after a crash, to start up in safe mode or regular. This screen had 2 green bars running vertically along my monitor, I tried rebooting in either option, but after getting the "Loading Windows" screen, my monitors would both just say "Not optimal mode Recommended mode 1920x1080 60HZ" and the bubble would float around the screen.
After talking to a few people I tried the following:
-Removed my GPU and plugged monitor into MB, booted up and PC worked fine.
-Reseated GPU and plugged back into it, same issue as above, black screen after "Loading Windows" screen
-Removed GPU and plugged monitor back into MB, uninstalled AMD Software program/drives, plugged GPU back in and rebooted, same issue as above
-Reseated GPU into another PCI port and tried rebooting, same issue as above
Someone said it might also be a power supply issue, I downloaded a program to test it out and the only thing I can see that might be a concern is during the test the power is spiking from 30-40W down to 5W and back up.
Last thing I am hoping to try is plugging GPU into someone elses computer to see if it works.