Just booted up my computer and my screen looks like this? Every once in a while it will go away and be fine then my screens will stutter and display this weird stuff again, is my GPU dead after only a year and some change?
Happens on both my monitors as well and I’ve never had this problem yet. A thunderstorm rolled through today but I didn’t get hit too bad and no power was lost or breakers flipped.
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You mean it’s not a picture of Stormtroopers getting married?
Not necessarily, but possibly. Could also indicate leftover charge from that isn’t supposed to be in the GPU, faulty cables, or driver corruption. Given that its intermittent I would look for either loose cabling or overheating issues.
Reinstall drivers, if that doesn’t work down grade to previous working version.
Check your drivers, settings, wires n what not. If all that’s good then I’d say it’s time for a new gpu. But the possibility of a new monitor isn’t completely out the window but that’s a very slight chance.
happy new year stormtroopers!
Jumper reset cmos, it could fix it if you are lucky. This is fixable usually, at worst one of the memory modules was busted, don’t worry too much.
Thunderstorms are very dangerous, disconnect all powers and Ethernet cables to avoid damage.
put some portable OS, tiny linux for example on your thumb drive.
Boot your PC using that thumb drive, after entering the main menu of OS. Try do some activity and check your screen, is the situation was same when you using windows?
If the answer yes, then your GPU need to be replace ASAP
if your GPU was brand new, try claim the warranty
this is the quickest way, but if you know someone that expert at repairing GPU. You can try to contact them, maybe they can help repair your GPU
Yes
Is it the same with a different monitor?
There are a lot of things that could be, but it’s usually faulty VRAM.
Underclock your VRAM and see if it goes away. If it does, you know.
Nah it’s just snowing