What is going on with my computer?
At random times areas of my screen will get slightly pixelated and if a video is being played during this happening the fps will drop. It isn’t always related to video playback or to heavy loads. This recently started happening out of no where a couple days ago and I’m not exactly sure why. The other thing that is pretty odd about it is if I move say another window or something over that area of the screen(causing it to refresh) the problem fixes itself right away.
CPU -Intel i7–2700k
16GB RAM
GPU- Radeon 7870
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Sounds like a video card problem. If you have a desk top and trust yourself inside the case see if the video card is loose. Gently re-seat the card, but firs check to see if cable is loose on monitor or back of case.
@Tropical_Willie Yea I mean I built this comp so I have no problems opening it up. I was thinking it was vid card related but wasn’t sure. Guess it’s time to shut down and take a look inside. The cables are fine, I tried that when the problem first started(thought my cat knocked it out or something :P)
If re-seat the card doesn’t work check voltage on power supply. Maybe a voltage drop in input voltage or the power supply itself.
It sounds like a driver issue to me, possibly related to a recent patch?
Have you recently installed updates or any video-related DLL’s before this started happening? Perhaps AMD has a more recent driver that would fix it?
Only things I’ve really installed lately were some video games….. I tired looking for an updated driver for my vid card but I’m evidently up to date.
Reseated the card. Everything seems to be fine now.
I also just hooked up water cooling for my cpu, running intel burn test it only hits 57 C. Soooo worth the money :)
Heat may have caused a “just loose” contact to break the circuit.
Possibly but I think it was my cat hitting the tower :P The gpu is rather large for my mobo so it’s hard to get it in real tight as is.
So I don’t have a exhaust fan anymore and I’m wondering how much of an issue this would be. My gpu, cpu, and ps stay rather cold. Because of the size of the radiator for the water cooler I had to remove the original exhaust fan. The only other place I could theoretically mount it would be on the bottom of the case but I feel like it really wouldnt do all that much (heat rising and whatnot)
Perhaps, in your PC some video application or software is yet running so when you start your PC videos open itself. So, kindly check weather any programme is running or not and also check some wiring weather loose connection problems your screen.
Everything has been fine ever since I reseated the card. Thanks though.
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