Graphical Artifacts in GAMES and in WINDOWS

[Intel9]

Hi
I wrote up this thread because I am having major graphical artifact issues!
PLEASE HELP
There are graphical artifacts on the windows lock screen, windows, all games, and bsod's after that. The artifacts don't appear if my R9 390 is labeled as Basic Graphic Adapter in drivers.

I replaced my graphics card with a rma request because my old one was having issues with framerates. The new one fixed the frame rate issues but now has artifacts. ATI said they tested the graphics card and they said it was good so I thought it would be another issue I will list them here.
Sent is motherboard for RMA request... Tested Good
Wiped and Reinstalled Windows 10
Switched Hard Drive
Bought new ram
Switched Monitor
Uninstalled all AMD software and reinstalled latest drivers
Scanned hard drive for errors... No errors
I am out of options and strapped on cash PLEASE HELP

 

[CircuitDaemon]

First of all, what's your PSU? Artifacts are only caused by one of 2 things, either a crappy PSU that doesn't deliver enough power, or a damaged video card. Which could be both if your PSU is cheap.

 

[SkyNetRising]

Artifacts are only caused by either a crappy PSU or a damaged video card.

Really?
To my experience graphical artifacts are caused by overheating, overclocking and bad drivers.
Never because of PSU. Bad, low quality PSU can kill your whole computer, but it doesn't cause graphical artifacts.

@Intel9 - try older version of your GPU drivers.

 

[Intel9]

First of all, what's your PSU? Artifacts are only caused by one of 2 things, either a crappy PSU that doesn't deliver enough power, or a damaged video card. Which could be both if your PSU is cheap.

EVGA 750 Supernova

 

[Intel9]

I have tried older drivers they don't work either

 

[Tradesman1]

What mobo, CPU, DRAM, version of AMD drivers tried?

 

[Intel9]

What mobo, CPU, DRAM, version of AMD drivers tried?

AMD drivers tried: Original Disk Drivers, 15.10 Beta Drivers and the latest 16.15 Stable
CPU: I have a i5 6600k Device manager says its up to date
DRAM: DDR4 UDIMM 2133 16GB
Motherboard: B150M-D3H-CF Bios Version F6 Latest Release

 

[CircuitDaemon]

Artifacts are only caused by either a crappy PSU or a damaged video card.

Really?
To my experience graphical artifacts are caused by overheating, overclocking and bad drivers.
Never because of PSU. Bad, low quality PSU can kill your whole computer, but it doesn't cause graphical artifacts.

@Intel9 - try older version of your GPU drivers.

Well, they can cause them when the power delivery to the video card is not constant, but it's not low enough either for it to shutdown. It's not as usual but it does happen.

First of all, what's your PSU? Artifacts are only caused by one of 2 things, either a crappy PSU that doesn't deliver enough power, or a damaged video card. Which could be both if your PSU is cheap.

EVGA 750 Supernova

Well, other than testing the card in another system, there's not much you can do to discard it as damaged. I'd say the video card is dead, nothing related to your motherboard or PSU.

 

[Tradesman1]

Do you have a different PSU you could try or could you borrow one?

 

[Intel9]

Artifacts are only caused by either a crappy PSU or a damaged video card.

Really?
To my experience graphical artifacts are caused by overheating, overclocking and bad drivers.
Never because of PSU. Bad, low quality PSU can kill your whole computer, but it doesn't cause graphical artifacts.

@Intel9 - try older version of your GPU drivers.

Well, they can cause them when the power delivery to the video card is not constant, but it's not low enough either for it to shutdown. It's not as usual but it does happen.

First of all, what's your PSU? Artifacts are only caused by one of 2 things, either a crappy PSU that doesn't deliver enough power, or a damaged video card. Which could be both if your PSU is cheap.

EVGA 750 Supernova

Well, other than testing the card in another system, there's not much you can do to discard it as damaged. I'd say the video card is dead, nothing related to your motherboard or PSU.

Do you guys know of any place I can throw it in another system for a price? I called up a place and was quoted 42.50$. I could buy a system compatible for that price.

If I can't find another system to throw it in I guess I will have to RMA it again.
Its very odd that ATI said they stress tested the card and it was good, but they only did that for 1 day.

 

[Tradesman1]

If you think about it, you normally see artifacts when OCing a GPU and it's often from lack of voltage/power, that's why I suggested checking PSU.....Might need a 500 and have a PSU that calls itself 500 - but that may well be 500 at Peak, where you need 500 continuous, there are Psus advertised 500 that only have 350 on the 12 volt rail