PC Problems, most likely GPU is buggered.

[emwearz]

Okay! My PC has decided to piss me off to no end.

Here is the situation, was playing a game on a factory settings AMD 7950, screen went black out of nowhere, reset to a black screen after windows logo. Windows ran the system recovery and it booted to windows using default VGA drivers. If I try to install AMD drivers, the machine just crashes to a black screen. GPU-Z identifies my card and returns its specs, clocks, etc. Here is what I have tried. My PC is a coolermaster with 36a on the 12v rail. Was running my current setup fine for over 6 months.

- Removing my dedicated Hybrid PhysX card (which is now out of the picture and will not be put back in until the issue is resolved.

- Completely removing AMD drivers in safe mode, reinstalling them.

- Manually installing drivers via device manager (results in black screen crash).

- Confirming that the PCIE is primary in BIOS

- Switching to the reserve bios on the card.

- Installing a fresh OS, same issues as above. (Which pr

- Using the onboard gpu and installing the drivers that way (same issue)

My next step is go to my dads with it and see if the gpu will allow me to install the drivers on his PC, easy way to test my PSU and the card itself, if not I guess it is totally fubar.

Any suggestions in the mean time, the card is not that old and has not been under much stress, I feel like it is most likely shot to shit, I find it odd that it will only crash with the drivers installed, I am not sure if it can use my onboard as a passthrough.

[Hobie-wan]

I find it odd that it will only crash with the drivers installed

The real drivers will be calling specific parts of the video card. If 'register GZ823' is hosed that controls say the font smoothing function that windows only tries to use when the real driver is there as opposed to just using bare minimum stuff with the generic driver is in use, then it might only crash if that is activated. Or maybe generic driver only uses 32 megs of the video card ram, but when the real driver is there it tries to access it all and some later chip is hosed. It is like booting into safe mode, you're doing bare minimum so that might be fine until you call on it to do grunt work.

[emwearz]

Yeah, as per my post I am pretty sure it is cooked, just shattered and trying to cling to some hope.