Is my card starting to fail?

[ultimadwarf]

Hi, I have a Powercolor Radeon R9 280X.

A few weeks ago, I started up Jedi Knight 3 and the display started to go wonky when hitting the main menu ( was using 1920x1080 .ini edit ). Random lines of the screen were flickering and going out of sync and out of nowhere, the whole screen started glitching up and freaking out/flickering, it got worse and worse till I turned off my PC. Was fine when booted. The game works now tho with the resolution.

I thought nothing of it until a couple days ago I got the same problem with Garry's mod when changing the resolution. For about 10-15 seconds a couple lines were flickering but after that the whole screen started freaking out and glitching again. When I say glitching I mean sections of the display were glitching rather than in-game glitches ( like polygons ).

I know it's not my PC because only one monitor had this problem while my other was fine ( iGPU ). I've been using AMD's latest drivers for months now and they've been fine. I ran Furmark a few times and nothing happened but I'm still a little worried. I don't really push my GPU far these days as I spend most of my time playing older games now.

Just wondering, is this a sign of my Graphics Card failing? What are some other signs? Also if it's failing, who do I contact, the place I bought it from or Powercolor?

Thanks

EDIT: Also worth noting the 2nd time it glitched up, I managed to close the game using my 2nd monitor and my screen was still glitched and wouldn't return to normal.

 

[Ironsounds]

Hello... I would try power color Phone # or Typically it can be done over the internet too... for them to email you a RMA paper work/#/instruct/mailing label for your return.

Monitors can fail too... make sure you test it on another computer system B )

 

[razamatraz]

This is common with a failing GPU but Before you send it in try a few things:

1. Check your temperatures to see if it's overheating.
1. Pull the cables, blow the connectors out with a can of air, reseat them and make sure the screws are tight
2. Pull the card, blow it's connector and the PCI-X slot out with air. Reseat it, making sure it's fully seated with good connections.
3. Pull the power connectors and reconnect making sure they are well seated and none of the contacts are corroded or seem to be poorly fitted.
4. Test it in another machine; it could be a power supply issue when you start running something demanding and it draws too much power for the rail, connector etc. Bad power is the other thing that can cause these issues so Check that PSU first.