Hi,
I have a 3 year old Sapphire R7 250 1GB card. Recently, my MSI 970A-G43 motherboard (no display port on it) conked off and it took over 2 months to get it repaired from the service center (story for another time).
However, my ill-luck seems to be far from over. Whenever I start CS:GO, after the initial screen, the computer freezes. The only way to get it working again is a restart. Similarly, Firefox was causing it to crash and so was VLC, after 10 off mins of watching a video.
I turned off hardware acceleration on Firefox and VLC and they seem stable, for now. But opening Google Maps again caused it to freeze (pic attached).
It seems like a graphics card problem. To confirm my hypothesis, I installed UNIGINE's Heaven benchmark. As soon as I started it, within a few seconds, the computer froze. I took it to my computer guy who put the card on another PC and it froze as well.
So my question is, am I right in thinking my graphics card is the problem? Can there be any other cause? I can't see any burst capacitors so do you reckon it can even be repaired?
Thanks,
Vignesh
I have a 3 year old Sapphire R7 250 1GB card. Recently, my MSI 970A-G43 motherboard (no display port on it) conked off and it took over 2 months to get it repaired from the service center (story for another time).
However, my ill-luck seems to be far from over. Whenever I start CS:GO, after the initial screen, the computer freezes. The only way to get it working again is a restart. Similarly, Firefox was causing it to crash and so was VLC, after 10 off mins of watching a video.
I turned off hardware acceleration on Firefox and VLC and they seem stable, for now. But opening Google Maps again caused it to freeze (pic attached).
It seems like a graphics card problem. To confirm my hypothesis, I installed UNIGINE's Heaven benchmark. As soon as I started it, within a few seconds, the computer froze. I took it to my computer guy who put the card on another PC and it froze as well.
So my question is, am I right in thinking my graphics card is the problem? Can there be any other cause? I can't see any burst capacitors so do you reckon it can even be repaired?
Thanks,
Vignesh