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VideoCard crashing(less 1 month old)
Hello it's been a little while since I was here last... Never thought I'd have another issue so soon actually...
My video(s) card is a:
SAPPHIRE Vapor-X 100283VX-2L Radeon HD 5770 (Juniper XT) 1GB 128-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 2.1 x16 HDCP Ready CrossFireX Support Video Card w/ Eyefinity
The first one I had bought December of 2010 and it crashed and stopped working in October of this year. It was on warranty so I sent it in to get fixed and I got it back a couple of weeks ago. But in the mean time while I waited for the card to come back I bought another of the same type to replace it so I can continue playing games and using my PC in general. I was planning on buying a second anyways to crossfire them so it worked out. I figured the first card going out was a what ever moment or something 1 time thing...
The second card I bought crashed just like the first a month after I bought it. I'm right now conversing with the makers--Sapphire (Athlon Micro)--about getting the second one RMA'd and possible the first one again as now after the first one had come back I was going to crossfire them together but I was too lazy to do it, but the day I was going to--maybe going to... I'm pretty lazy sometimes--I tried turning on the PC and realized it was the same thing that happened to the first card. It crashed, broke, or whatever happened it doesn't work anymore. I always turn my PC off at night and the previous night it was working fine and the next morning it was no more... I popped out and back in the RAM and tested to see if it was a RAM problem I even did the same to both cards interchanging them in the PC.
The new one I had bought a month prior was busted. The one that came back from repair I popped in thinking how lucky was I that I had a back-up video card... sorta. Ended up that theres something wrong with the repaired card still. The computer is able to turn on so the card isn't broken like it was before atleast, but theres little gray boxed every where and the computer crashes--not to a bsod or anything--and it says in the bottom corner of the screen that the graphics card failed and restarted it self or something. It does that alot... mostly when I play games.
On the web I go to pages with videos on them like youtube and the video is green screened. I have to watch the video through then replay to actually see the video itself. I can't even watch DVDs on my PC anymore. I have doubts its totally the graphics cards at fault here. I think it has to do something with my motherboard or even the RAM. The motherboard was an openbox when I bought it from Newegg. I was being cheap I didn't think there was anything wrong with it. I can't think of anything else that could be wrong, but I'm no techguru... I'm not good with computers-period anymore... I tend to brake them more than fix them these days :/
I would love some help please I'm going crazy almost as bad as last time
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