Graphics card sudden death

[Psychedel1K]

Yesterday after booting up war thunder, which I was playing for only around 10-15 minutes, all of a sudden I started to get weird flickering and artifacting on my screen. I figured maybe my GPU was overheating, so I went to exit the game. Right before I could exit, I was greeted with a splash of green bars on my screen. I just rebooted my PC, checked my bios to make sure temps were fine, and they appeared to be fine so I resumed with booting my PC. Windows loading screen showed up fine, but after that finished all I got was a backlit screen on my monitor. Now, the card is out of warranty and I have tried everything and I can only get it to work without display drivers installed or in safe mode. (Because the card is only being used as a frame buffer I assume?)

The Graphics card in question: Asus R9 270 DCUII OC

TL;DR: My graphics card died suddenly after playing a game for only a few minutes with no other signs previously of it failing. It only works when in safe mode or without display drivers loaded. I do not have an iGPU either so it means that it's not completely dead.

Now I would like to determine the cause of it's death, because I don't want to be putting a new GPU into a computer which possibly has a faulty PSU or something else causing the problem.

I have tried the following with no avail:

- Changing the PCI 16x slot (because I don't have another computer I can access/use in any way I tried this)
- Made sure everything was connected (it was)
- Tried installing older drivers
- Changed DVI ports (I don't have any other cables I can use currently, so no VGA tests although I doubt it would make a difference)

And this is what does work with it:
- It displays fine in safe mode or without drivers (I do not have an iGPU either)
- It is getting power
- The fans spin fine

Also, if you need anything like screenshots of specs and voltage from the motherboard sensors or something, and I also have pictures of what the screen looked like when it was acting up, I can post those later.

Thanks for making it this far I guess, and thanks for everyone's help.

 

[CountMike]

Those are symptoms of dead 3D processor. Works in 2D like in safe mode but as soon as you try applying drivers it refuses. It may happen from overheating too. Cold soldering joints can cause that also.

 

[burgessanthony]

^ Agree. It's dead.