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Need Help - System crashes with Solid Lines going down screen

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dabeeed

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Hi all,

Here is my system:
i5-2500k on a GA-Z68XP-UD3 Gigabyte Board
HD 7970 Msi Lightning
2x4gb of G.Skill Ripjaw RAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800)
SyncMaster P2770

I have been experiencing some very strange problems with my PC for a few months now. Sometimes, whenever I stream videos, such as anime or even youtube, browse the internet, go on Skype or play games, I get a freezing screen of lines that inevitably crash my system. Picture shown here - http://imgur.com/EuHuV,Tnz42. The color of the background varies with whatever the streaming background color is. Sometimes it's brown or pink or yellow - however, what is consistent is the parallel lines running down the screen and the inevitable crash of the system.

I experience this problem the most when I am streaming videos. I have tried reinstalling drivers, reinstalling Chrome (and reinstalling flash player), and last of all, I have tried reformatting my computer.

I have sent this card in for RMA and MSI was not able to replicate the same problem. Does anyone have any feedback to why this might be happening?

Thanks,
David
 
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I forgot to add that I am running it on a Corsair TX850 PSU.

dabeeed said:
Hi all,

Here is my system:
i5-2500k on a GA-Z68XP-UD3 Gigabyte Board
HD 7970 Msi Lightning
2x4gb of G.Skill Ripjaw RAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800)
SyncMaster P2770

I have been experiencing some very strange problems with my PC for a few months now. Sometimes, whenever I stream videos, such as anime or even youtube, browse the internet, go on Skype or play games, I get a freezing screen of lines that inevitably crash my system. Picture shown here - http://imgur.com/EuHuV,Tnz42

I experience this problem the most when I am streaming videos. I have tried reinstalling drivers, reinstalling Chrome (and reinstalling flash player), and last of all, I have tried reformatting my computer.

I have sent this card in for RMA and MSI was not able to replicate the same problem. Does anyone have any feedback to why this might be happening?

Thanks,
David
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That looks awfully similar to the grey screen of death issue I used to have with my Radeon 5870. Never was able to pinpoint the problem, it went away on its own after multiple driver updates :/
 
Did your grey screen of death also have lines running down it vertically? And did it also freeze your system?

TheGamerZ said:
That looks awfully similar to the grey screen of death issue I used to have with my Radeon 5870. Never was able to pinpoint the problem, it went away on its own after multiple driver updates :/
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I have Ripjaws memory and ive had to RMA two sticks before. have you run a mem test?
 
I have not done a memory test before - I will look into doing that.

I had a 5970 running in my system and it did not exhibit these systems, would you still think that it was a memory issue?
 
I just did the memory test that came with Windows 7 by typing in "memory" into the run box and it came back negative - there was nothing wrong with my RAM there.

Was that a reliable test?

M3Roc said:
I have Ripjaws memory and ive had to RMA two sticks before. have you run a mem test?
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