New GPU, Blue lines, can't install drivers

[Nick_54]

Just bought a used gtx 970 and when I booted up with it I saw flickering horizontal blue lines everywhere. Now when ever I try to install my graphics driver Nvidia says I don't have any compatible hardware, even though I'm running my monitor off the GPU.

SPECS
I3 4170
8gb gskill ripjaws 2+4 ram
Gigabyte Windforce GTX 970
Evga 500w PSU
Asrock H97 Anniversary
Corsair 100R
240GB adata ssd
2TB Seagatte HDD
Windows 10 64

Is my GPU dead?

 

[GodEater]

Where did you purchase it from?

 

[Nick_54]

Hardware Swap

 

[GodEater]

Hmmm, re seat the card and try again, did you uninstall your previous drivers? Where are you installing the drivers from?

 

[Nick_54]

I've already done pretty much everything, from reseting the cmos, to updating the bios, to running with one stick of ram. Got the nvidia drivers from the site.

 

[GodEater]

Then it looks like a bad card man

 

[hang-the-9]

As above ^ "Just bought a used gtx 970", used card, was bad when it was sold. #1 thing when buying used video cards, make sure you can see them running in a game or benchmark before paying, if at all possible. Too many people try to sell bad video cards that technically work, as in you see something on the screen, but are bad.

 

[Nick_54]

It had a warranty so I'm rmaing the card