So couple months ago my pc was having these odd random reboots, crazy color'd screens, and moments where the screen would go black and the GPU fan would kick on high speed. It seemed to go away but now it's happening again.
So the crashes seem to happen within minutes of starting up my computer, but are random. Most of the time, screens mess up, go black, and I have to manually reboot the machine. However there has been a few cases where the machine reboots(1033 bluescreen). So originally not knowing what the issue was, I pulled the Graphics card out, used onboard video and haven't had an issue yet. So now I'm assuming my cards shot.
Bad news for me, I'm over my 2 year warranty, sapphire told me i'm out of luck, and not really sure when i'll be able to fund a new video card purchase. The card was a Sapphire 6950 2GB Flex edition. Ran great for the 2 years and 3 months after the warranty, it's doing this.
Is there anything else I could try? something else it might be? I would really love to keep the video card, but if it just reboots my machine, then it just became a paper weight. Below is a picture of one of the screens that appears when I have to manually reboot the machine.
So the crashes seem to happen within minutes of starting up my computer, but are random. Most of the time, screens mess up, go black, and I have to manually reboot the machine. However there has been a few cases where the machine reboots(1033 bluescreen). So originally not knowing what the issue was, I pulled the Graphics card out, used onboard video and haven't had an issue yet. So now I'm assuming my cards shot.
Bad news for me, I'm over my 2 year warranty, sapphire told me i'm out of luck, and not really sure when i'll be able to fund a new video card purchase. The card was a Sapphire 6950 2GB Flex edition. Ran great for the 2 years and 3 months after the warranty, it's doing this.
Is there anything else I could try? something else it might be? I would really love to keep the video card, but if it just reboots my machine, then it just became a paper weight. Below is a picture of one of the screens that appears when I have to manually reboot the machine.