NOTE: I have written this exact post on another website with pictures. If you want to see them, go here:
https://forums.techguy.org/threads/msi-radeon-rx-480-4gb-problems.1191331/
ALSO NOTE: While writing this thread, my computer crashed. And gave me the Windows 8.1 sadface error. If that helps you guys any.
I am a pretty big PC gamer, and recently bought a graphics card, care to guess what kind it was? Yes, an MSI Radeon RX 480 graphics card. Truth be told it was a birthday gift to me, and I believe it was returned and refurbished, hence it being a whopping 20% off. It worked beautifully for the first month or so and then my computer's hard drive was corrupted, probably due to some virus related to the porn I had been downloading. So I had to reinstall the OS and wipe everything I had before, which my OS had been windows 10, and now the dreaded 8.1...
So onto the problem, every time I install the driversthe graphics card starts doing it's thing, red, green, and blue pixels will scatter on the screen in clusters. Now it might sound like dead pixels, but the twist is that they will change position when anything goes over it.
I think it might just be a bad egg, and I just need to get a new one, however I want to hear what a seasoned tech expert might have to say, before I go and shell out another couple hundred dollars just because of some dumb driver problem.
https://forums.techguy.org/threads/msi-radeon-rx-480-4gb-problems.1191331/
ALSO NOTE: While writing this thread, my computer crashed. And gave me the Windows 8.1 sadface error. If that helps you guys any.
I am a pretty big PC gamer, and recently bought a graphics card, care to guess what kind it was? Yes, an MSI Radeon RX 480 graphics card. Truth be told it was a birthday gift to me, and I believe it was returned and refurbished, hence it being a whopping 20% off. It worked beautifully for the first month or so and then my computer's hard drive was corrupted, probably due to some virus related to the porn I had been downloading. So I had to reinstall the OS and wipe everything I had before, which my OS had been windows 10, and now the dreaded 8.1...
So onto the problem, every time I install the driversthe graphics card starts doing it's thing, red, green, and blue pixels will scatter on the screen in clusters. Now it might sound like dead pixels, but the twist is that they will change position when anything goes over it.
I think it might just be a bad egg, and I just need to get a new one, however I want to hear what a seasoned tech expert might have to say, before I go and shell out another couple hundred dollars just because of some dumb driver problem.
