Hi everyone
I recently built myself a new pc with all new parts. This was my first time putting a system together. Here is what it is:
Core i5-2500k
Gigabyte z68-ud3h-b3
Sapphire Radeon 6850 1GB GDDR5
Antec EA-650 PSU
Corsair Vengeance 8GB 1600 DDR3
WD Caviar Black 750GB HDD
I've been using it for a few weeks and have had no problems. I didn't put an optical drive in when I built it but then I changed my mine and ordered one. It arrived today, I installed it, machine booted fine, loaded windows, and then the problem started. Little red distortions all over the desktop, followed by red and blue squares, freezing, then blue screen of death.
I tried using a different cable to power the optical drive. then i removed the optical drive. i checked all of the cables and connections. I reseated the gpu and the ram. I cleared the cmos and set it back to default. So far the only thing that works is booting into safe mode. Everything works fine that way. Booting normally causes the graphical problem every time. Sometimes I get the "driver has crashed but recovered" message but then it will immediately crash again.
I have no idea what to do. Should I RMA the graphics card? Please help.
I recently built myself a new pc with all new parts. This was my first time putting a system together. Here is what it is:
Core i5-2500k
Gigabyte z68-ud3h-b3
Sapphire Radeon 6850 1GB GDDR5
Antec EA-650 PSU
Corsair Vengeance 8GB 1600 DDR3
WD Caviar Black 750GB HDD
I've been using it for a few weeks and have had no problems. I didn't put an optical drive in when I built it but then I changed my mine and ordered one. It arrived today, I installed it, machine booted fine, loaded windows, and then the problem started. Little red distortions all over the desktop, followed by red and blue squares, freezing, then blue screen of death.
I tried using a different cable to power the optical drive. then i removed the optical drive. i checked all of the cables and connections. I reseated the gpu and the ram. I cleared the cmos and set it back to default. So far the only thing that works is booting into safe mode. Everything works fine that way. Booting normally causes the graphical problem every time. Sometimes I get the "driver has crashed but recovered" message but then it will immediately crash again.
I have no idea what to do. Should I RMA the graphics card? Please help.