I've been having this problem for around a month or two now where games I am playing lock up suddenly and cause my screen to flicker, then show a crazy amount of artifacts and various glitches. I am forced to turn my computer off to which I am greeted by my BIOS being very glitchy and showing multicolored symbols and such. This is usually followed by a BSOD trying to load Windows. Then I will usually run the Startup Repair and let it do it's thing, and typically Windows will load fine then.
Before today, on the two other occasions this has happened, I would uninstall my drivers and get a BSOD while trying to do so. It still uninstalls the drivers, but I have to run the uninstaller again to remove the other crap that comes with them. Then I reboot in safe mode and run Driver Sweeper and such to make sure it's all nice and clean, then reboot and reinstall the drivers. This usually fixes my problem, and it will not happen again for at least a week.
Today it seems that it just doesn't care anymore, and continues to do it even after this. As it stands I am in Safe Mode because Windows simply BSODs when attempting to start up normally.
So I am reaching out for help. I have two ATI 3870 HD x2 that I have tried with the same result. Both of them have been used before throughout the last 2 years or so. Both give the same results. I want to hope it's that somehow they are both just messed up and I need a new card, but it seems like that may not be the case.
Anyone have any suggestions, or know what it sounds like it is?
Before today, on the two other occasions this has happened, I would uninstall my drivers and get a BSOD while trying to do so. It still uninstalls the drivers, but I have to run the uninstaller again to remove the other crap that comes with them. Then I reboot in safe mode and run Driver Sweeper and such to make sure it's all nice and clean, then reboot and reinstall the drivers. This usually fixes my problem, and it will not happen again for at least a week.
Today it seems that it just doesn't care anymore, and continues to do it even after this. As it stands I am in Safe Mode because Windows simply BSODs when attempting to start up normally.
So I am reaching out for help. I have two ATI 3870 HD x2 that I have tried with the same result. Both of them have been used before throughout the last 2 years or so. Both give the same results. I want to hope it's that somehow they are both just messed up and I need a new card, but it seems like that may not be the case.
Anyone have any suggestions, or know what it sounds like it is?