green/pink screen at startup

[tmyers151]

I recently experienced a very troubling issue while playing Mortal Kombat X on my pc. After playing for about 30 min, all of the sudden, the characters turned green and pink...then it happened to the entire screen. I restarted my computer and now everything has a green tint with some random pink flickering lines. I tried doing a system restore, reinstalling videocard drivers, even reseeding the card and reconnecting the monitor cable, but nothing seems to work...PLEASE HELP!

My system
-windows 7 64 bit
-asus m5a97 le r2.0
-msi r7950 twin frozr 3gd5/oc
- AMD FX 8350 4ghz 8 core AM3+
- 8 gb ram 1333mhz

Any help is greatly appreciated as I am EXTREMELY frustrated, thanks!

 

[Sergeant_Sneaky]

Do you have another monitor/tv you can plug in and try?

 

[tmyers151]

I do not...However, I was considering taking it to a friends to try another monitor...Is it possible the monitor or cable/connection could have just randomly went out like that?

Also, I should add this happened after weeks of the computer functioning fine...it was only after I downloaded a driver update that was suggested when I ran the game. Then it happened after about 30-40 min of play.

Thanks so much for your reply

 

[Sergeant_Sneaky]

I do not...However, I was considering taking it to a friends to try another monitor...Is it possible the monitor or cable/connection could have just randomly went out like that?

Also, I should add this happened after weeks of the computer functioning fine...it was only after I downloaded a driver update that was suggested when I ran the game. Then it happened after about 30-40 min of play.

Thanks so much for your reply

I've had a cable that just stopped working completely, I came home one day and had no signal, switched cables and it was okay, not sure how as nothing had changed but that's the way of tech. Colours across the screen would USUALLY suggest a bad cable or connection with the cable, I'd think it's less likely to be the monitor, but still possible. Try and get a monitor to try from your friend, with the cable he uses, and try it with his cable, and if the screen is normal, try it with your cable.

 

[tmyers151]

Thanks, you're giving me hope haha. Would you say it's much more likely to be a connection problem than a gpu one? My fingers are crossed that it isn't a graphics card issue, because I just got done dealing with a faulty card that I had to get replaced... I'll give it a go on another monitor when I can and keep you posted, thanks again!

 

[Sergeant_Sneaky]

Thanks, you're giving me hope haha. Would you say it's much more likely to be a connection problem than a gpu one? My fingers are crossed that it isn't a graphics card issue, because I just got done dealing with a faulty card that I had to get replaced... I'll give it a go on another monitor when I can and keep you posted, thanks again!

I'd say it's most likely the cable/monitor. It could be the graphics card but it's unlikely in my opinion, because of the green tint, that doesn't sound like GPU artifacts, its the sort of thing you get with a loose cable connection.