video card/driver crashes and slowness

[Nermel]

Hi there. I built my PC about 6 months ago and have not had any major problems until a few days ago (12/10/14). After shutting my system down and going to sleep I ran into some major issues. I woke up turned on my system, windows booted like normal but after about 10 seconds everything locked up and both of my monitors went black then said no signal. After a few seconds they each turned a different shade of blue with and odd texture. I held the power button down in order to reboot, after which the problem occurred again. I did some brief problem solving on various forums and decided to re install my video card driver. So after re installing the video card driver I'm still presented with the same issue. Sometimes I am able to load and stay in windows without having to force shutdown however it takes about 4 tries to get it to work. I have tried countless times to re install the driver thinking maybe it was a bad install. I've used the driver wiper tool in order to make sure everything is removed. I've tried to re seat my video card on my motherboard. I've tried re-installing windows, nothing has worked so far. Other problems exist as well. The UAC prompt used to take about 1 second to pop up and now takes 20. Using control alt delete used to instantly show me the menu to access the task manager. Upon receiving or dialing a call in skype everything freezes and i have no way to do anything and have to force shutdown. When I play full screen games alt tabbing now takes 20+ seconds rather than being instant.

System specs:
CPU: Intel Core i7 3770@3.4 GHZ
Motherboard: ASUS p8z77-v
Memory: 16GB DDR3
GPU: Gigabyte R9 280X GDDR5-3GB

I can attach my dxdiag and MSinfo results if that would help as well. Thank you in advance!

 

[junkeymonkey]

I don't know the thing that junped out to me was '''have not had any major problems until a few days ago (12/10/14). After shutting my system down and going to sleep I ran into some major issues''

that's when those botched updates came out so that was my first guess
i guess a backup and restore to a point as well ahead of the day the issue started and see where your at with that ??

like i said this is one to look into ... sorry I'm not more help

http://www.infoworld.com/article/2858014/operating-systems/botched-kb-3004394-triggers-uacs-diagnostic-tool-error-0x8000706f7-amd-catalyst-driver-fail-defende.html

 

[Vzor]

if it got hot enugh to melt solder that thing is a goner I don't know what hes getting at with all that - that equals a major melt down ... and pretty far fetched in my book

That is incorrect. The solder does not melt, the chip lifts off of one or two pads or a solder joint breaks. When the chip is cool it sits properly and has contact, but as it heats up it bows. Safe mode would not cause problems because it barely uses you graphics card at all. It is what happens if you overheat the gpu, it almost never actually fries because of its internal temperature reading and throttling. If you are thinking of giving up and just replacing it, at-least give the re-flow a try, it takes like 20 mins.