My son got a Gigabyte 5600xt off ebay. It worked fine for a few weeks, allowing him to play VR HTC Vive etc.
Now it is crashing randomly, sometimes when doing nothing, but normally just after moving the mouse.
It could last as long as the windows login screen, or it could let you happily play games for 20 minutes.
Last night, I swapped cards with my PC and his. For a couple of hours in the evening, they both worked fine and so I left them on overnight. In the morning, with his card in my PC, it was still working, so got all excited, but after 5 minutes of using it, my PC crashed.... His PC with my card was fine.
Notes:
When it crashes, the mouse freezes, then a few seconds later the screen goes black and fans on the CPU whir (as if rebooting?) and then the motherboard boot LED stops on VGA. Resetting the machine after that allows it to boot fine though.
GAH!!!
So it seems his card is the issue.
Drivers are all up to date. CPUZ says it is what it claims to be. It doesn't appear to be overheating.
I tried wiping the contacts with a bit of kitchen paper (I don't have any rubbing alcohol to hand). A tiny bit of black came off, even though to the naked eye, they look clean.
Suggestions for how to proceed?
Now it is crashing randomly, sometimes when doing nothing, but normally just after moving the mouse.
It could last as long as the windows login screen, or it could let you happily play games for 20 minutes.
Last night, I swapped cards with my PC and his. For a couple of hours in the evening, they both worked fine and so I left them on overnight. In the morning, with his card in my PC, it was still working, so got all excited, but after 5 minutes of using it, my PC crashed.... His PC with my card was fine.
Notes:
When it crashes, the mouse freezes, then a few seconds later the screen goes black and fans on the CPU whir (as if rebooting?) and then the motherboard boot LED stops on VGA. Resetting the machine after that allows it to boot fine though.
GAH!!!
So it seems his card is the issue.
Drivers are all up to date. CPUZ says it is what it claims to be. It doesn't appear to be overheating.
I tried wiping the contacts with a bit of kitchen paper (I don't have any rubbing alcohol to hand). A tiny bit of black came off, even though to the naked eye, they look clean.
Suggestions for how to proceed?
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