- Jul 24, 2012
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MSI Afterburner Suddenly decided to go batshit crazy - Overclocking my 2 GTX 980s GPUS beyond normal limits - by its own.
At first my PC was ok (before this bug occur). Then I launched a game and it froze my entire machine. At first I thought it was the game.
After 5 minutes of trying to snap out of it - I hit the reset button.
After a quick restart the desktop came up - all of the sudden the desktop was littered by hundreds of black squares - like bullet holes. Mouse stopped responding.
This time my PC crashed after a short blue screen.
The next time it booted up, I already knew what was the problem. I figured it was MSI Afterburner doing Uber-insane-over-overclock
MSI Afterburner automatically added by its own accord a gargantuan +1000 Memory and +1000 Core Clocks boosts!
This resulted in massive numerous artifacts:
Black squares, rainbow colored marks, shapes and dots flickering, spreading and growing in number. The PC will freeze solid soon after, then the screen will go black or the entire system crashes with a short blue screen (sad face + error message).
Strangely, this is the 2nd time it happens to me on the same system. However last time was on a previous installation of Windows 10 - I did a clean install (with format) of Win10 since then (which was unrelated to the bug).
I temporarily fixed the issue by restarting several times until I could finally click on MSI Afterburner - and press RESET DEFAULTS to disable the OC. Then uninstalled it.
The problem was that it would constantly lag and freeze my system - preventing me from resetting or uninstalling the damn thing.
I am afraid MSI just burned / damaged my GPUs too - I mean +1000 (probably even more) clocks is insane :/
Why is this happening? Has anyone else had this issue?
What exactly triggers this and how do I prevent it in the future?!
[Also how the hell do I enter Safe Mode with Windows 10 and an SSD drive?]
Should I worry about my graphics cards' health after these incidents - or are they probably fine?
At first my PC was ok (before this bug occur). Then I launched a game and it froze my entire machine. At first I thought it was the game.
After 5 minutes of trying to snap out of it - I hit the reset button.
After a quick restart the desktop came up - all of the sudden the desktop was littered by hundreds of black squares - like bullet holes. Mouse stopped responding.
This time my PC crashed after a short blue screen.
The next time it booted up, I already knew what was the problem. I figured it was MSI Afterburner doing Uber-insane-over-overclock
MSI Afterburner automatically added by its own accord a gargantuan +1000 Memory and +1000 Core Clocks boosts!
This resulted in massive numerous artifacts:
Black squares, rainbow colored marks, shapes and dots flickering, spreading and growing in number. The PC will freeze solid soon after, then the screen will go black or the entire system crashes with a short blue screen (sad face + error message).
Strangely, this is the 2nd time it happens to me on the same system. However last time was on a previous installation of Windows 10 - I did a clean install (with format) of Win10 since then (which was unrelated to the bug).
I temporarily fixed the issue by restarting several times until I could finally click on MSI Afterburner - and press RESET DEFAULTS to disable the OC. Then uninstalled it.
The problem was that it would constantly lag and freeze my system - preventing me from resetting or uninstalling the damn thing.
I am afraid MSI just burned / damaged my GPUs too - I mean +1000 (probably even more) clocks is insane :/
Why is this happening? Has anyone else had this issue?
What exactly triggers this and how do I prevent it in the future?!
[Also how the hell do I enter Safe Mode with Windows 10 and an SSD drive?]
Should I worry about my graphics cards' health after these incidents - or are they probably fine?
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