MSI 7970 Lightning BE problem

Hello,
yesterday I received my MSI Ligthning, mounted it into my PC, boot and everything was fine...
I did some runs of Unigine Valley Benchmark, 3DMark Fire Strike benchmark, played a little bit to check if everything is fine and yes everything was fine...(by the way no more than 60c heat for the GPU).
But
after 2 hours, I was using Internet Explorer and suddenly my PC crashed with a kind of weird green screen... it was not possible to do anything, I had to reboot.
Unfortunately when I rebooted I saw some weird red dots in the displayed texts during the boot process... so I went into my mobo bios screen and saw here several red dotted lines accross the screen..
Anyway I tried to boot Windows with no success: after the splash screen I was not able to get the login screen... only a black screen...
I tried to dismount and mount again the card with no success.
I have the feeling my card is dead
By the way I tried to boot using the LN2 bios with no success (3 beeps).
My system is:
PSU Seasonic X650 (54amp +12v rail)
Mobo Asus P7P55D-E PRO
CPU i7 860 - 3.6GHz
8GB DDR3 GSkill
Windows 7 - x64
Crucial SSD M4 - 256GB
Raid 0 Seagate HDD 7200.14 - 3TB
Thanks if you have any idea to suggest before I RMA my card
Note: I put back my previous graphic cards and everything is fine... so no problem with the mobo or something else I guess.

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Quote from: Svet on 28-June-13, 16:40:43
save and upload your current vbios to check it
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I'm having a lot of trouble with my msi 7970 lightning. Since a few months ago it started showing weird artifacts. I've mede a few video but ''I'm not allowed to post external links'', or at least so say the board.
The card it's stock speed (core and memory), the fans profile it's also at stock. I'm using the last Omega 14.12 driver and I've tried all the amd drivers from the last year. My cpu is an i7 3770 and my pc has 8 gb of ram.
The card serial number is:
S/N: 602-V278-040B1306042942
Now cames the pain. I had to stop playing Diablo 3 bacause some weird artifacts, then I quit playing Guild Wars 2 for the same reason (see the first video) and now I had to stop playing Dragon Age Origin because of the artifacts, which comes out at high to ultra setting (manageable by the card), and because the game keep crashing randomly to desktop (directX Error) or even freezing (Application Hang, ID 1001 Error). I have seen also weird artifacts on Watch Dogs and Battlefield 3 but fortunately I didn't like those game so much...
What should I do? I have even tried a clean win 8.1 installation...I'm really discouraged.
This card has still six more month of warranty, should I return to the shop?
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roz

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@Svet .. Im going to be able to test it with http://www.raidmax.com/psu/rx_1200ae.html over the weekend .. And if it does work without problems with that .. Would you recommend i get one of those ? brandwise ? i know its no corsair name brand or other .. but this is in my price range ..
also, on side note just out of interest @svet .. that bio's i linked was it upto date ?
Quote from: SegaStep on 09-July-13, 14:30:36
@Svet .. Im going to be able to test it with http://www.raidmax.com/psu/rx_1200ae.html over the weekend .. And if it does work without problems with that .. Would you recommend i get one of those ? brandwise ? i know its no corsair name brand or other .. but this is in my price range ..
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@Svet .. Im going to be able to test it with http://www.raidmax.com/psu/rx_1200ae.html over the weekend .. And if it does work without problems with that .. Would you recommend i get one of those ? brandwise ? i know its no corsair name brand or other .. but this is in my price range ..
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I've got HD 7970 Lightning Boosted Edition. After 1-2hour's of gaming the GPU shutdown the screen and it's black. The sound is still played and i can talk with friends over teamspeak. It happens almost on every game. The GPU temps are around ~65. How can i RMA it when facture is posted and i cant dig to it?

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Quote from: Svet on 18-June-12, 20:53:19
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MOVED: msi 7970 lightning BE artifacts & weird stuff

This topic has been moved to Graphics Cards.
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UPDATE:
B2 error solved. I tried the second bios on my msi z77 mpower motherboard and it wasn't update to the last release, so it was incompatible with amd 7970 card. Now I've update it the video card regularly boot.
Reading online i found that a possible explanation of the artifacts on 7970 cards is due to Hynix GDDR5 video memory ( H5GQ2H24MFR-R0C) voltages which are pushed too by manufacturers. So some people solved the issue reducing the memory voltages (see youtube) and clock speed.
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Hello
I purchased the MSI 7970 Lightning in May of last year as part of a new build. The other components of the build that affect the running of the machine are:
Asus P8Z77 WS Motherboard
Intel i7 3770K CPU
16GB Mushkin Ram (991991)
Noctua NH-U12P SE2 Cooler
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With buying such high end products I thought I would have an easy hassle free build as I have built computers before with only one problem build that resulted from a faulty stick of memory. I didn't intend to overclock at all initially and intended but wanted the option to if I needed to in the future.
How wrong was I? The first Lightning card was faulty and would crash before it finished the Kombuster benchmark. The system also suffered from continual 'AMD Driver has stopped responding and has recovered' stutters and occasional crashes even on the desktop. I contacted the merchant I purchased it from and arranged a return. It took a few weeks but I did eventually receive a replacement card through MSI.
Excuse the pun, but Lightning couldn't strike twice I thought, and the next card would work. However, I still got the 'AMD Driver has stopped responding and has recovered' reports and the occasional crashes. This card did at least complete the benchmark so I kept it and put it down to driver issues.
In my quest to resolve the issue I have tried the following:
I trawled the internet looking for probable causes and have tweaked the motherboard bios according to what was recommended on Asus forums to no avail.
I have downloaded the latest bios for the motherboard
I have used the most stable settings recommended in bios so as to cause least stress on a non-overclocked CPU
I have set up my SSD's in non-raid as I read Lucid Virtu MVP doesn't like that
I have done a fresh install of Windows 7 each time I downloaded new drivers for the graphics card so that there could be no old files affecting the driver's operation
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I have run Memtest which came up with no errors.
I have also tried using just 8GB of the RAM in various configurations on the off-chance it was a faulty stick despite the Memtest result.
I don't have limitless hours to spend trying to rectify problems with my computer. I tend to work on it when I take a holiday but, again, I can't continually take up all of my holiday time trying to sort this out. Unfortunately many moons later I have still not got a stable computer that is usable (it is intended for my work primarily so i do need it to be stable. I can't afford a crash in the middle of doing my work).
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Description
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sysdata.xml
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BCP1:   FFFFFA800B88A4E0
BCP2:   FFFFF8800596CDB8
BCP3:   0000000000000000
BCP4:   0000000000000000
OS Version:   6_1_7601
Service Pack:   1_0
Product:   768_1
When I request Windows to check for a solution it comes up with nothing.
- Is there anything in this message that gives useful info to pinpoint the problem? I'd be grateful for any more advice on this.
Regards
Trevellion

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