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HD 7970 works up to right after I sign in to desktop.
While showing its age a bit , it still works well, until it would artifact and go black.
Inspecting the TIM and thermal pads I saw or thought it was a heat issue due to that are as old as the dead sea scrolls.
Purchased some fujipoly pads for Memory, 1.5m and for VRM (same), replaced them and the TIM [AS5]on GPU.
So, booted up into windows 10 1607 and after 10 min temps soared display went black.
Replaced with an old ATI X1950 pro with Microsoft basic display driver. (it works at resolutions that can be seen from the ISS). Plus no legacy drivers work with it anymore.
Any suggestions, will re-seat H/S/F later tonight, hope it works.......