Hi guys,

I bought some time ago a Radeon X850 XT... It used to run fine, all games at full detail, no overheating problems.. I even overclocked it a little bit. The problem is that today I arrived from the college, turned on my PC and then my eyes just went

There we some sort of wicked and colourful pixels. There wasn't any text at all. Only random colors flashing at the screen. I thought that the video card wasn't correctly socketed, so I kinda took if off and plugged it back in...

But the problem persists... So, is it really dead or is there still a hope?

Thanks =)Well if there are just colors on the screen I would suggest you try a roomates video card or get an old one to test it out first. My brother had an issue with his video card. Instead of flashing colors his screen there would be these color LINES and no matter what you do to them its always there.

We ended up reinstalling the graphics driver. Increase the refresh rate and end up shutting down and rebooting the PC 3 times.
*if you restart the computer does not power down the card.Well...

If it was drivers problem I would be happy, but I'm afraid that it might be something worse...

The thing is that I don't even get to see anything... It's just some random colors flashing around the screen... I've tried to unplug the extra power supply of the graphic card (you know that molex plug)...
But the colors keep flashing.. I'm afraid that the video card it's just good to go to trash!!

Someone knows how to reset a video card bios? It might work...


Thanks

EDIT: And besides, I don't know how some faulty drivers could influence a DOS environment...It sounds like a dead card. Sometimes it just happens, but if you have been overclocking it that can hasten it's demise. God *censored* it!


That just sucks.. On the other hand I got a x800 pro, but it has some weird lines too, but the images kinda show clearly... Just some random red lines... What can it be? Bad contact between heatsink and gpu? I'm saying this because it used to be watercooled before I took it off...

You overclocked them both? Well I did... Never got any problems, neither artifacts.. So I presume that the overclock was kinda stable and wasn't HARMING the video card. The x800 pro had like a +20Mhz overclock...

I don't know what to do, I have these two "dead" graphic cards, and I really need them to play World of Warcraft and besides I don't want to SPEND any money on a new one... Any hope on this case?whoa that's scary. if you overclock things that often, especially a video card you better have a spare SEALED in the box so you can take it out on warranty. Do not overclock the spare.

just an idea Looks like a bunch of junk DOS characters, like this, right:
[ch9688][ch9689][ch9786][ch9834][ch9608][ch9618][ch9675][ch9674][ch9658][ch9571][ch9688][ch9689][ch9786][ch9834][ch9608][ch9618][ch9675] (or is that clasified as text?)

If so, then its your DISPLAY settings, not your video card. Can you see the BIOS?