Is my graphics card dying?

[Krippy550]

First of all, i'm sorry if this the wrong forum. It's my first time posting here.

As suggested above, i want to know if my graphics card is dying. I use an asus r7 260x oc 2gb and i encounter several problems for quite a long time now.

I get random BsoDs at all times, when gaming, when watching a video on youtube, when scrolling through facebook and in the last few days, i got at least 2 while IDLE.

The blue screen isn't normal either, the screen isn't the typical windows 10 bsod, it is weird, like a static effect is in place, i can see the behind all of this to know that it wanted to show me a blue screen, but i can't even read anything behind all these weird effects.

But a blue screen can be cause by anything, so i ran my ram test etc., everything seems fine, i have the latest drivers installed.

Apart from the constant blue screens, i get weird graphics glitches in the grass in Elder scrolls online, the shadows never stick in place and sometimes the grass even streches into a straight line towards the sky. (as you can imagine this can be really distracting in forest areas and in some cases unplayable because of all the particles that are in the air)

Can anybody help me figure this out? I really need to know and i'm trying to avoid RMAing it to asus.

 

[johnbl]

the memory dump shows
MSIAfterburner.exe running and directx making a request to the graphics driver
then calling a bugcheck when the graphics driver did not respond after its time out.

C:\Program Files (x86)\MSI Afterburner\RTCore64.sys Fri Sep 30 05:03:17 2016
: RivaTuner/EVGA Precision/MSI Afterburner (known BSOD issues w/Win7)


you never know if afterburner is making calls to the rtcore64.sys driver
even when you don't want it to.
best to remove both while you are trying to figure out this type of problem.

 

[Krippy550]

the memory dump shows
MSIAfterburner.exe running and directx making a request to the graphics driver
then calling a bugcheck when the graphics driver did not respond after its time out.

C:\Program Files (x86)\MSI Afterburner\RTCore64.sys Fri Sep 30 05:03:17 2016
: RivaTuner/EVGA Precision/MSI Afterburner (known BSOD issues w/Win7)


you never know if afterburner is making calls to the rtcore64.sys driver
even when you don't want it to.
best to remove both while you are trying to figure out this type of problem.

Can this also happen with just having the msi afterburner installed? Because i got a bsod (before i uninstalled it) while it was not open, just installed.

UPDATE!
I got another one, same deal, with afterburner uninstalled
Here is the DMP file...
https://1drv.ms/u/s!AsfmcaCA5UQng1WK-fjfsZOrVtlT

 

[johnbl]

My only guess is the GPU sound driver is getting messed up and causing the GPU driver not to respond. It could be the amd sound driver being of the wrong build or your motherboard sound driver messing up the GPU sound driver.

I would update the sound driver for your motherboard, update the GPU sound driver if you can. After the updates, I would disable any sound devices that do not have speakers attached. (disable in control panel, device manager)
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not finding anything wrong in the windows, just the GPU driver not responding.
here are the drivers for the GPU: (notice the dates)

AMD High Definition Audio Function Driver
\SystemRoot\system32\drivers\AtihdWT6.sys Thu Dec 8 09:20:20 2016

\SystemRoot\System32\DriverStore\FileRepository\c0313248.inf_amd64_aad49543f8f714a1\atikmdag.sys Mon Apr 10 10:04:56 2017
atikmpag \SystemRoot\System32\DriverStore\FileRepository\c0313248.inf_amd64_aad49543f8f714a1\atikmpag.sys Mon Apr 10 09:42:10 2017

(looks like the graphics sound driver is from a different build than the other two graphics drivers) It is the only thing I see that really looks incorrect.


here is your motherboard sound driver:
Realtek High Definition Audio Function Driver
\SystemRoot\system32\drivers\RTKVHD64.sys Wed Jul 15 03:16:44 2015
update: http://www.realtek.com.tw/downloads/downloadsView.aspx?Langid=1&PNid=14&PFid=24&Level=4&Conn=3&DownTypeID=3&GetDown=false

you also have a USB audio driver installed.(generic one)
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looks like you were running chrome, it finished something and directx told the ati graphics driver to free up a resource.
the request bounced around in the GPU driver until directx just thought the driver was hung and called a bugcheck.

I will look and see if i can figure out any problems that might of caused this.
notes:
nothing running on any core except core 1 running the graphic driver with the bughcheck.

looks like 2 directx threads blocked waiting to get graphics resources from the gpu driver and 1 thread trying to free graphics resources but never completing.

the memory dump shows
MSIAfterburner.exe running and directx making a request to the graphics driver
then calling a bugcheck when the graphics driver did not respond after its time out.

C:\Program Files (x86)\MSI Afterburner\RTCore64.sys Fri Sep 30 05:03:17 2016
: RivaTuner/EVGA Precision/MSI Afterburner (known BSOD issues w/Win7)


you never know if afterburner is making calls to the rtcore64.sys driver
even when you don't want it to.
best to remove both while you are trying to figure out this type of problem.

Can this also happen with just having the msi afterburner installed? Because i got a bsod (before i uninstalled it) while it was not open, just installed.

UPDATE!
I got another one, same deal, with afterburner uninstalled
Here is the DMP file...
https://1drv.ms/u/s!AsfmcaCA5UQng1WK-fjfsZOrVtlT

 

[Krippy550]

My only guess is the GPU sound driver is getting messed up and causing the GPU driver not to respond. It could be the amd sound driver being of the wrong build or your motherboard sound driver messing up the GPU sound driver.

I would update the sound driver for your motherboard, update the GPU sound driver if you can. After the updates, I would disable any sound devices that do not have speakers attached. (disable in control panel, device manager)
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not finding anything wrong in the windows, just the GPU driver not responding.
here are the drivers for the GPU: (notice the dates)

AMD High Definition Audio Function Driver
\SystemRoot\system32\drivers\AtihdWT6.sys Thu Dec 8 09:20:20 2016

\SystemRoot\System32\DriverStore\FileRepository\c0313248.inf_amd64_aad49543f8f714a1\atikmdag.sys Mon Apr 10 10:04:56 2017
atikmpag \SystemRoot\System32\DriverStore\FileRepository\c0313248.inf_amd64_aad49543f8f714a1\atikmpag.sys Mon Apr 10 09:42:10 2017

(looks like the graphics sound driver is from a different build than the other two graphics drivers) It is the only thing I see that really looks incorrect.


here is your motherboard sound driver:
Realtek High Definition Audio Function Driver
\SystemRoot\system32\drivers\RTKVHD64.sys Wed Jul 15 03:16:44 2015
update: http://www.realtek.com.tw/downloads/downloadsView.aspx?Langid=1&PNid=14&PFid=24&Level=4&Conn=3&DownTypeID=3&GetDown=false

you also have a USB audio driver installed.(generic one)
----------
looks like you were running chrome, it finished something and directx told the ati graphics driver to free up a resource.
the request bounced around in the GPU driver until directx just thought the driver was hung and called a bugcheck.

I will look and see if i can figure out any problems that might of caused this.
notes:
nothing running on any core except core 1 running the graphic driver with the bughcheck.

looks like 2 directx threads blocked waiting to get graphics resources from the gpu driver and 1 thread trying to free graphics resources but never completing.

the memory dump shows
MSIAfterburner.exe running and directx making a request to the graphics driver
then calling a bugcheck when the graphics driver did not respond after its time out.

C:\Program Files (x86)\MSI Afterburner\RTCore64.sys Fri Sep 30 05:03:17 2016
: RivaTuner/EVGA Precision/MSI Afterburner (known BSOD issues w/Win7)


you never know if afterburner is making calls to the rtcore64.sys driver
even when you don't want it to.
best to remove both while you are trying to figure out this type of problem.

Can this also happen with just having the msi afterburner installed? Because i got a bsod (before i uninstalled it) while it was not open, just installed.

UPDATE!
I got another one, same deal, with afterburner uninstalled
Here is the DMP file...
https://1drv.ms/u/s!AsfmcaCA5UQng1WK-fjfsZOrVtlT

I updated realtek HD audio, the AMD HD audio had no updates.
Should i disable AMD HD audio from device manager and playback devices?

 

[johnbl]

I update and disable my GPU sound driver since i don't have any speakers in my monitor.
if you can not update it, I would just disable it. There is no point in having a GPU cranking away producing sound when there is not a speaker. disabling it would also reduce the load on the GPU.

My only guess is the GPU sound driver is getting messed up and causing the GPU driver not to respond. It could be the amd sound driver being of the wrong build or your motherboard sound driver messing up the GPU sound driver.

I would update the sound driver for your motherboard, update the GPU sound driver if you can. After the updates, I would disable any sound devices that do not have speakers attached. (disable in control panel, device manager)
----------
not finding anything wrong in the windows, just the GPU driver not responding.
here are the drivers for the GPU: (notice the dates)

AMD High Definition Audio Function Driver
\SystemRoot\system32\drivers\AtihdWT6.sys Thu Dec 8 09:20:20 2016

\SystemRoot\System32\DriverStore\FileRepository\c0313248.inf_amd64_aad49543f8f714a1\atikmdag.sys Mon Apr 10 10:04:56 2017
atikmpag \SystemRoot\System32\DriverStore\FileRepository\c0313248.inf_amd64_aad49543f8f714a1\atikmpag.sys Mon Apr 10 09:42:10 2017

(looks like the graphics sound driver is from a different build than the other two graphics drivers) It is the only thing I see that really looks incorrect.


here is your motherboard sound driver:
Realtek High Definition Audio Function Driver
\SystemRoot\system32\drivers\RTKVHD64.sys Wed Jul 15 03:16:44 2015
update: http://www.realtek.com.tw/downloads/downloadsView.aspx?Langid=1&PNid=14&PFid=24&Level=4&Conn=3&DownTypeID=3&GetDown=false

you also have a USB audio driver installed.(generic one)
----------
looks like you were running chrome, it finished something and directx told the ati graphics driver to free up a resource.
the request bounced around in the GPU driver until directx just thought the driver was hung and called a bugcheck.

I will look and see if i can figure out any problems that might of caused this.
notes:
nothing running on any core except core 1 running the graphic driver with the bughcheck.

looks like 2 directx threads blocked waiting to get graphics resources from the gpu driver and 1 thread trying to free graphics resources but never completing.

the memory dump shows
MSIAfterburner.exe running and directx making a request to the graphics driver
then calling a bugcheck when the graphics driver did not respond after its time out.

C:\Program Files (x86)\MSI Afterburner\RTCore64.sys Fri Sep 30 05:03:17 2016
: RivaTuner/EVGA Precision/MSI Afterburner (known BSOD issues w/Win7)


you never know if afterburner is making calls to the rtcore64.sys driver
even when you don't want it to.
best to remove both while you are trying to figure out this type of problem.

Can this also happen with just having the msi afterburner installed? Because i got a bsod (before i uninstalled it) while it was not open, just installed.

UPDATE!
I got another one, same deal, with afterburner uninstalled
Here is the DMP file...
https://1drv.ms/u/s!AsfmcaCA5UQng1WK-fjfsZOrVtlT

I updated realtek HD audio, the AMD HD audio had no updates.
Should i disable AMD HD audio from device manager and playback devices?

 

[Krippy550]

I update and disable my GPU sound driver since i don't have any speakers in my monitor.
if you can not update it, I would just disable it. There is no point in having a GPU cranking away producing sound when there is not a speaker. disabling it would also reduce the load on the GPU.

I have it disabled for more than a day now, no blue screens yet, hopefully it stays that way. I tested warframe for 2 hours with chrome open playing music and everything seemed fine.

Same thing as before, if i get 10+ days without problems i will mark this thread as solved.

 

[Krippy550]

I changed my motherboard and CPU to an a8- 7650k, (got them free from a friend). I fresh installed windows, updated the motherboard drivers (and it's bios updates) updated windows fully, and STILL got the error, same deal, same screen, while idle.
The only thing that stayed the same from my original build is now the 260x and my hard drive. (260x from 2015, and the hard drive from late 2011).
Here is the DMP file...
https://1drv.ms/u/s!AsfmcaCA5UQng3ky4L9Yo1Ajbnvf
(copy-paste the whole link, for some reason it doesn't highlight all of it)



Honestly, i'm just tired, if the GPU is responsible for anything regarding the error, i should just swap it with a 1050ti lol, and move away from amd...

 

[johnbl]

looks like you have a overclocking driver installed also. you should remove it.
\C:\Program Files (x86)\MSI\Command Center\DDR\NTIOLib_X64.sys Mon Nov 26 02:11:53 2012

check the release date for your cpu, this driver might not provide the correct voltages and clock rates for your cpu.

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stack just shows that chrome made a directx call to release something back to the system, directx talked to the amd graphics driver and it just never responded so when a timeout expired a bugcheck was called.

 

[GogoTraining]

If not try to remove your 260x and use igpu to test.

 

[Krippy550]

If not try to remove your 260x and use igpu to test.

Currently using igpu to test

 

[Krippy550]

UPDATE

I have been testing with my igpu since 09/5/17, that is 22 days.

Not a single blue screen occurred, but the temps are really high when under load since i use the stock cooler,.
Well i'm placing my bet in the graphics card at this point. I will replace it with an rx 560 or a 1050ti.