videocard died or is it something else?

[tazzy88]

Hello guys,

I come to you with a problem. For the last few weeks my pc crashed often while playing video games showing random vertical colored lines and showing the b2 error or sometimes a3 error on my motherboard code display.

Then 2 days ago it happened another time and this time it seemed like the water bucket ran over because it wouldnt boot at all anymore. Still showing the b2 or a3 error. Earlier i could get the pc to work again by messing around inside the pc. Now that doesnt work anymore. When I leave the pc off for a while and start it it has artifacts like in the attached picture (also if i press f1 to boot normally the screen just goes black again)

Now my videocard is main suspect of the cause but i need to be sure that this is it. So I need some secondary opinions before i go biy a new card and it turns out to be the motherboard or something.

So what do you think?

Heres the attached picture:

Specs are

2500k (never been overclocked)
8gb of ram
Sapphire 7950 oc edition
Asrock p67 extreme 4 gen 3
Xfx pro750w

 

[ClassicD]

try a different monitor to eliminate the graphics card.

 

[tazzy88]

ClassicD, i dont have another pc monitor but i did try to connect it to my tv monitor. Also tried another hdmi cable but it gives me the same problem

 

[ClassicD]

Take your card out and use motherboard graphics. If it works your card is gubbed.

 

[tazzy88]

I dont have motherboard graphics but if i do try to boot it without a graphics card its just gives me a a2 for a while and then hangs on d6 forever.

 

[ClassicD]

what motherboard do you have? no VGA? HDMI?

what is a2 and d6?

 

[tazzy88]

I posted my specs in the original post. Its a Asrock p67 extreme 4 gen 3 motherboard. A2 is "IDE detect" which is most likely caused by myself trying to clear the cmos. And d6 means it cant find a videocard which is logical because theres none in there. But if i put the card in again it gives me the b2 or a3 error again.

 

[ClassicD]

To completely eliminate your card you need to try on a different monitor.