PC hits black screen on boot, visual artifacts and freezing

Grom0X said:

Just one another thing you can try, flash different version VBIOS on that graphic card.

How do I do that? And is there any risk involved? I read a bit online but it seems a bit confusing.

It is best to ask a question on this forum, this is where you get the most accurate answer.
Good luck!

Thanks for the suggestion, but I think I'm just going to hold out and get a new GPU for Christmas, since we've pretty much established that my current one is ready to kick the bucket and I've been meaning to get a better one for a while now anyway. My friend is fine with me borrowing his spare one until then, it's a bit old but it works perfectly fine.

Marking this as solved. Thanks again everyone for all your help.

PHVNTOM said:

Thanks for the suggestion, but I think I'm just going to hold out and get a new GPU for Christmas, since we've pretty much established that my current one is ready to kick the bucket and I've been meaning to get a better one for a while now anyway. My friend is fine with me borrowing his spare one until then, it's a bit old but it works perfectly fine.

Marking this as solved. Thanks again everyone for all your help.

Some top help here

If you can, try and find from the AMD driver software 'OverDrive' and the running core speed and ram speed in Mhz and see if it matches the original manuacturers spec of your card. Whilst in Overdrive and look at the GPU and Memory usage whilst at idle. The needles should be showing 0. If the needles are pushing high whilst at idle something is running in the background and utilising your GPU's power. At the same time, the wrong drivers will cease the graphics cards fan until the GPU hits a stupid temp of 60 degrees plus and the fan sometimes not coming on at all. I have an AMD270 here which is burnt out because of this.
Its vital to keep an eye on the older AMD cards health, pyhsically and through as many sensors or probes as possible hehe