No Signal whenever I start a game

Himei

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Jan 7, 2015
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I've been having problems with my XFX 7770 for over the past few months. It started with the card drivers crashing under Windows 7, 90% when I'm playing a game but Windows would recover driver issues automatically after a few seconds. Then 1 month ago, I installed Windows 8.1, the issue got worse. This only happens when I am playing a game, it would randomly go black then give me "NO Signal" on my screen. The system is still running because any background noise/music is still playing. I can not get the screen to come back up without restarting my PC. This ONLY happens when I'm playing a game, never under general use such as web browsing, etc.

Last week, I got a new Motherboard and CPU and hoping to solve this issue. Unfortunatly, I am experiencing same issue but worse. It was working fine for a few days until I got a BSOD on Windows 7. From that point on, whenever I start a game, the screen would black out, "No Signal" within 1-3 minutes of starting. It seems Windows cant auto recover the driver issues like last time so I have to restart PC to get screen back up. If I am using it for general computing, the problem doesn't occur.

Think its time to RMA the card?
 

Himei

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It's definitely the card. I am using Intel's integrated graphics for about 3 hours gaming with settings on high and no crash what so ever. Switched back to gpu, settings on low and it starts to black out again or this time getting windows 8.1 BSOD but the text is scrambled before it restarts itself after self check. Time to RMA it and/or get a new gpu.