Visual glitches since new SSD got installed

[tbergeron]

Hi,

I installed a SSD in my gaming computer last week.

Right after installed I went in the BIOS to check if the disk was properly detected, I noticed small artefacts and glitches happening but thought hey it's the BIOS, we never know.

So I kept on plugging everything back, a few days later I purchased Dragon Age Inquisition and notice that when my video card is under heavy demand it starts to show artefacts, driver is crashing, games are crashing also and there's not much I can do except monitoring and testing.

I have a Radeon R9 280X by the way.

I started GPU-Z to see what was going on, here's a screenshot on which you can also see artefacts:

[img]http://i.imgur.com/hpRcSYG.jpg[/img]

Sorry for the JPG, I quickly took a screenshot in MSPaint to make sure to snap it before the computer crashes.

The only thing coming to thoughts is that I might have forced it a little while plugging my hard drives? I mean, I didn't pry anything but I'm starting to wonder what happened as it was a great working card not long ago.

Any idea or any suggestion about what to try next?

Thanks!

[editline]9th December 2014[/editline]

Also could anybody tell me if what's GPU-Z show is totally normal? It was right in the middle of an GPU-intense fight in the game, so I thought I'd snap a screenshot of when the shit actually hit the fan. You can see glitches on the screenshot. Thanks

[tbergeron]

Weirdly enough, I run 3dmark fire strike test well at 5500+ with no crashes.

As soon as I've been playing Dragon Age for like 5 mins, it starts glitching until it simply crashes the game or the whole computer.

I didn't tried to remove it and plug it back again but I tried to push it to it stays deep in the PCI-E port. It sure is vertically slack in the port a little, it's always been that way I just hope I didn't pry it too much. (I'm normally pretty gentle with these things hehe)

Thanks for the help

[Rixxz2]

A friend of mine experienced those exact same weird "box" artifacts with his HD 7970 after he had downloaded the new AMD drivers, try reverting back to Catalyst 14.4 and see if that fixes it.

[Cyberuben]

I can say that I experienced these kind of artifacts too at some point after downloading new drivers. I can't tell which driver version though, I now run the beta and it works fine and dandy.