We bought a second hand msi gtx 980ti 6gb for Christmas and it recently has been bugging out a lot. I will add pictures of the issues at the end but to describe it the screen glitches out and these different coloured boxes apear all over the screen and then leads to the pc restarting. However some times while it’s been in this box covered state I’ve held down the power button and it’s the stopped and the screen then says shutting down and I don’t have time to cancel the shut down.
Other times it automatically restart it’s self, but usually this leads to the screen bugging out again during the windows loading screen, I will also add a picture of this, so I restart the pc again and it usually takes an average of about 2 or 3 tries before the pc actually loads into windows properly then when it does it is absolutely fine it runs really well at 60fps of most games like gta v on high settings which it should but then randomly it would crash into this box state again and starts the loop again.
So there is many reasons why this may be happening but all that we’ve trued have failed to fix the issue. Initially we thought the gpu may be over heating so we installed afterburner, this partly worked because it extended the time between crashes however it’s still happening, then we tried using older graphics drivers this also didn’t really help. I tried to bypass the gpu by plugging the vga straight into the motherboard, the issue stopped therefore I thought it must be an issue with the gpu however this could also mean it is an issue with the pcie port still I am is sure but I am upgrading my pc soon so that will expain if it is the pcie or the gpu.
Still I’am unsure on how to fix this any feedback is greatly appreciated.
As is finished writing this the issue happened again while playing gta v