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Old hard drive went out so got a new one, everything works fine til I try to install my video card drivers, at which point the screen becomes all pixelated and off colored, as soon as you uninstall the video card driver it goes back to normal. I remember this happening a year ago when I first built this computer but I forgot how I fixed it oddly enough. I've tried every stable and beta driver listed on http://www.sapphiretech.com/presenta...=&lid=1&leg=0# no difference between them.
OS: Windows 7 Home Premium
Motherboard- GIGABYTE GA-990FXA-UD3 AM3+ AMD 990FX SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX AMD Motherboard
CPU- AMD Phenom II X4 965 Black Edition Deneb 3.4GHz Socket AM3 125W Quad-Core Processor HDZ965FBGMBOX
GPU- SAPPHIRE 100358OCL Radeon HD 7770 GHz Edition 1GB 128-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 x16 CrossFireX Support Video Card
Memory- G.SKILL Sniper Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1866 (PC3 14900) Desktop Memory Model F3-14900CL9D-8GBSR
PSU- Thermaltake - 430W TR2 ATX Power Supply
Hard drive- Western Digital Caviar Green WD20EADS 2TB 32MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive
Cooler- COOLER MASTER Hyper 212 EVO RR-212E-20PK-R2 Continuous Direct Contact 120mm Sleeve CPU Cooler Compatible with latest Intel 2011/1366/1155 and AMD FM1/FM2/AM3+
Case- Antec Three Hundred Black Steel ATX Mid Tower Computer Case
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TLADT24920 Posts
Did you try the drivers that came with the gpu on the cd? I know those are a much older version but maybe they work fine? Having said that, this is likely the same as from the website.
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Pixelated how? It sounds like artifacts which might mean your graphics card might be, to use the technical term, fucked.
Edit: oh and people on tech forums or at least in the tech section of TL (there's a thread specifically for this and some competent posters) would be better suited for these kinds of questions.
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Lalalaland34504 Posts
Whoops misread, moved it to right place anyway
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This is what it looks without drivers
![[image loading]](http://i1075.photobucket.com/albums/w422/Jason_Speed/Falkenrath_Aristocrat.jpg)
Here's what it's doing after installing drivers
![[image loading]](http://i1075.photobucket.com/albums/w422/Jason_Speed/photo2.jpg)
![[image loading]](http://i1075.photobucket.com/albums/w422/Jason_Speed/photo1.jpg)
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lolgg
User was warned for this post
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I don't think so, had this exact problem a year ago when I first built the computer, I just can't for the life of me remember what I did to fix it then.
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Did it involve goat sacrifice and spilling red blood on a white dress?
On a serious note: try reseating the graphics card. I.e. take it out, put it back in, make sure it's firmly in there. If it's loosely connected you can get all kinds of weird shit happening. I personally have some troubles with my card every time I do stuff nearby (not directly fixing the gpu, but other nearby components). It's large enough that sometimes a cable or other pressure can cause it to become loose when fixing stuff.
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Yea, I've checked to make sure it was firmly secured even tried bouncing it around to all 4 slots. Still same thing.
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Bought a new Raedon 260x, and having the exact same issue with it.
AMD support just gave me a copy/paste message about making sure to run their uninstaller first before updating drivers which I've done countless times.
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EPT![[image loading]](http://s1075.photobucket.com/user/Jason_Speed/media/Falkenrath_Aristocrat.jpg.html)
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