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Hi all, I noticed some artifacting and crashing applications earlier today and decided to take apart and clean most of my PC, figuring it was dust causing connection issues for my components. I put everything back together and am now getting hung up on the CPU debug light and my PC now cannot even boot to BIOS. I have tried: Removing all but 1 stick of ram Clearing CMOS, and subsequently replacing the battery Reseating all components and repasting CPU thermal paste Flashing BIOS via USB drive to both the current version it was on and the most updated version I am about out of ideas and would super appreciate any input! The only thing I can think of at this point would be going to the store and buying another GPU to test if that's the problem. Because of the artifacting, it's seeming to me like that's the most likely culprit. I would warranty the GPU, but because I bought it during the crypto mining peak, it came from China. MSI China won't recognize the warranty because it was used outside of their region and MSI USA won't recognize the warranty because it's "not from their region". Specs: Ryzen 5800x MSI 3080 Suprim MSI B450 Tomahawk Max Corsair 3200Mhz (4x8GB) Corsair H100I Platinum EVGA 1000w PSU Windows 11

Hey. Hope you can help. Powered up my pc today and noticed a vertical line going top to bottom on my screen. I can only describe it as a visual artifact. It flickers constantly. Only really noticeable on darker backgrounds. RTX 3090 connected to an LG C9 OLED via a HDMI 2.1 cable. I've updated the drivers in geforce experience. I've tried a different cable, and I've tried different hdmi port on the TV. The TV doesn't show the issue on anything other than the pc. There's only one hdmi port on the card so I tried a Display port to HDMI adapter and the issue has gone, but now it can only do 1080p 60hz. My guess is that the low res and refresh is a limitation of the adapter more than anything else, but it still allows HDR. What do you think? Broken hdmi port on the graphics card? Could I get a better display port to HDMI adapter to get 4k 120 VRR again?

Hard to believe that my last post here was only a little more than a month ago, & yet it feels longer than that to me. Anyway, I feel like I can definitely use your help on this matter, guys cause I can only theorize/speculate. Without further ado, let's just jump right in. Okay, so, a little more than 2 years ago, I made a forum post/topic about the artifacting issue I was having on the gaming rig after I had to swap the motherboard as part of the troubleshooting process. [You can look at that post, but I stated a few things in correctly in it, but it will still give you a ballpark idea of what was going on then.] Anyway, I have an update on that: Just yesterday, I upgraded from the RTX 2070 SUPER that I had to a brand new RTX 4070 Ti "thinking" that the issue was related to the GPU itself. But after I got it in, booted up the rig & upgraded my driver via GeForce Experience, I still have that same issue! [Also, for anyone wondering, I DID use DDU to uninstall the old driver first. And, essentially, nothing about the setup has really changed aside from having a i7 10th Gen now, & being on Windows 11.] I looked at a few of my posts I made in the past related to this issue to refresh my memory before I made this one, but I've given the matter some thought & have a possible theory as to what could be going on. I would however, like your input on this just as confirmation though. Based on my experience that I've had with this so far over the last couple years, I'm thinking that the issue most likely is with the Displayport cable that I've had since the beginning. Because I visually inspected the 2070 SUPER, & upon a close but careful inspection, I'm not seeing ANY visual damage to the pins & there is nothing wrong with the IO on the card itself. Unfortunately, the Display port cable that I've been using which came with my monitor is the only 1 I've got, & I even went as far as to check the end that was plugged into the GPU & to my eyes, I didn't see any evidence that it was damaged or anything. But then again, I don't have any of the proper tools to evaluate that sort of thing anyway given that I've never had any background with IT, nor worked in like a tech repair shop or what have you. Still, I would like some opinions/thoughts/advice on the matter. Is there anyway I can check or validate for myself that the issue is with the cable, or just for the heck of it, should I purchase a new one, try it out, & see if that helps? In the meantime, though, I'm open to other suggestions & advice that you guys would have, but please, view & read that previous post I alluded to first! Also, for anyone wondering, I updated parts list & the pcpartpicker URL on my profile. Like always- if you guys need extra details or if you have any questions, just feel free to comment or message me & I will get back to you all 1 by 1. Anyway, thanks in advance to whomever can help!

To my understanding, a graphics card that display artifacts can either have a dying GPU or faulty VRAM, correct? In the first case, it's just a matter of time for the card to die altogether, with the GPU losing contact with the die. But if it's the VRAM, can it be used as a secondary graphics card for a SLI setup, or would the artifacts be displayed on the screen? Someone told me that the GTX 1000 series was projected to display a black screen if any sector of the VRAM is faulty, and that's why you don't often find artifacting GTX 1000 GPUs. Does it work similarly on another generation of cards, so I can distiguish between good or bad SLI candidates?

Hello, I brought an asus 3060 v2 12gb tuf gaming on Facebook market place a few days ago today it worked fine and today when I boot up my pc it looked this see picture below and no boot logo or windows logo. This is not a driver issue right? there are no artifacting issue in game or normal pc use since I manually downloaded the lastest driver from nvidia it still has 1 year and a half manufacturing warranty left should I RMA or should I speak to asus gpu support to trouble shoot and confirm? Any advice or suggestions would be highly appreciated thank you very much!

SO, I've had some crashes and freezes before, but nothing this bad. Diagnosis is bleak, eh? Relevant components: MSI B550 Gaming Plus (latest BIOS compatible with 1st gen Ryzen) Ryzen 1700x 32gb Corsair Vengeance RGB Gigabyte rx5700 gaming oc (RIP) Elgato HD60 internal capture card All running stock, except maybe the RAM, but I think I might have even disabled XMP on it to be safe. Been a while. As you can see, I was TRYING to play WoW, but as soon as I get to a place full of Fire, my GPU decided "hey, great idea!" And, well... There ya go. Full glitch city. It was like Missingn0 and Diaboromon decided to throw a party and my PC was invited. Just missing textures and shadows glitching everywhere, audio skipping, lights going off like the most cursed rave you've ever been to. (I have footage but the forums deemed my 15-second clip too large, so I'll spare you the acid trip) History: I think I might be cursed. This is my second GPU so far, as my Vega 56 was also freezing and crashing games on me. I play at 1440/144, playing games from WoW to Warframe to Cyberpunk to Minecraft. (Oddly enough, WoW and Minecraft are what give me the most issues. I can run Cyberpunk on med/high just fine, and Warframe on max settings, but that game is optimized af) The only PC parts I HAVEN'T replaced since I built this Machine of Theseus is the CPU, the NZXT rgb fan junk, and my boot drive. Unsure what other information might be pertinent.

my gtx 980ti for a few months has been randomly losing signal to my monitors and the only way to fix it was to restart. but yesterday my pc outright started to shut down when i tried running a game, I tried to run the game a few more times.to no avail then when I load up my pc once more I spot odd red and yellow lines on my bios screen so i turn off my pc and take my gpu apart and i see that the thermal paste is dry and there are only spots of thermal paste left on the die but I don't have any spare thermal paste though I am ordering some now but I'm not sure if it is overheating because my temps in game are around 70 to 80 degrees unless the temp probe is wrong. i have looked for any burn marks on the gpu but i dont see any so if anyone knows how they can fix this that would be helpful.

This happens regardless of OS, and only happens sometimes when the refresh rate is set to 360Hz. It doesn't happen when using Lubuntu's "Safe Graphics" mode on 360Hz. The Intel graphics have been disabled in the BIOS. I had my laptop serviced about a month ago for this very same issue and they replaced the motherboard since they said the GPU failed, so I'm thinking it might be a driver issue, being that it only happens sometimes and that they swapped the entire motherboard. Or I'm just really unlucky when it comes to the silicon lottery. Oddly enough when running both Unigine Heaven and Superposition this issue did not manifest in the slightest and there were no other issues. It manifests itself in the form of visual glitches that last for a split second but frequently occur. Here's an example:

Hello guys , and thank you for bothering to read this. As it can be seen on the attached photo , i have small squares appearing all over the screen when i start my computer. The problem may manifest itself also via a different way , as shown in the second photo where you can see (if you look closely) small red squares. I have asked friends from University and at work , most of them are saying that my GPU is artifacting and that i'll have to buy a new one. Others say it is a driver issue. If you have any ideas and or solutions to this problem , feel free to pitch in. Once again thanks for taking the time to read me. Have a nice day. Alexandre

I just turned on my PC like normally I do everyday, but when I'm dragging the window I saw something unusual. There is a white shadow behind everything, if i move something it will create a white shadow behind it. That shadow is very annoyed me when im playing games. I don't really know what the cause of this problem, so I reinstall the GPU driver and reset the monitor settings, but it doesn't fix it. Please check the video down below. I'm afraid that is an artifact so I need to replace GPU, I never saw somenthing like this before. GPU : Asrock Phantom Gaming X570 Monitor : Samsung LS24R350 1. Why that happens / what the cause? 2. What is that shadow thing called? 3. How do I fix it?

I'll start with my specs: ASUS ROG Strix 2080 MSI Z170A Krait Gaming 3X Motherboard Intel i7 7700k 16GB Corsair Vengeance EVGA 750 G2 PSU C: Drive: Samsung Evo Sata SSD A: Drive: Seagate 4TB HDD (No overclocks at all, all components are roughly 4-5 years old except the GPU with is about 2 and a half). So I recently started having issues where every time I would load up a game, within about 30 seconds the game would freeze, my screen would be covered in white squares in kind of a wave pattern and then the game would either CTD or my PC would blue screen. I tried rolling back the drivers, tried hotfixed drivers, reformatted my C: Drive and did a fresh Windows install, swapped the card into a different PCI slot (which actually bought me a day without crashes), and also swapped out the HDMI cables. Eventually I conceded and RMA'd the card. Anyway, I've had it back for about a week now and it seemed fine at first, but now it's doing similar things. It's not as bad as it was, haven't had a BSoD yet and some games run fine, of the games I tested, only my heavily modded version of Fallout 4 seems to recreate the issue. Majority of the time this time though, it's happened on the initial boot. The only one, maybe two of my 3 monitors turn on and the Windows sign in screen will appear all pixelated with lines across it. It's also happened twice just idling on the desktop when I've gotten up to go work out and left it on or something. A reboot usually fixes it. The RGB on the card also reset itself after the first reboot, if that means anything. Although today, it happened while I was watching YouTube, so I restarted the system and when it came back on, it was pixelated again. So I restarted it again and this time when I booted it I got a message from my bios screen saying "Repairing C: Drive" or something like that. After it came back on I think I noticed that copying files was pretty slow, and that was actually entirely on my A: Drive, but it's hard to say for sure because I didn't get a good look at the speed before it finished copying so it could've just been placebo and I'm getting 20-30MB/s now. I've check the GPU temps with RivaTuner, mostly sits around 60 under load, was reaching 65 in Fallout 4, again, never overclocked it. I was just about to do another build replacing everything but the GPU, PSU and storage drives, so I've got a new case, a Ryzen 5800X, Strix X570-E Motherboard and 16GB of Trident Z RAM sitting right next to me and now I'm thinking I'll buy a new PSU and SSD too, just in case. I'd try running the GPU on a test bench setup with all these new components but I was going to do a custom hardline loop in this build so I don't have a combatable cooler, I could get it running to see if it'll post, but I can't really try games on it because the CPU will likely overheat. So I just wondering, what seems to be the issue here? Was the GPU just sent back from the RMA still busted? Or is more likely that it's something else entirely, like the motherboard or the PSU since those are both older components? Should I contact ASUS and try to get a replacement card?

Just got my cyberpower custom build today, i9-11900kf, 32gb ballistics 3000mz ram, aorus 3070, thermaltake 750w 80+ gold and in bios its just a artifacting mess, gouz shows memory size, memory clock, and gpu clock all at 0, nvidis control panel will not open, and sait that it wasn't connected to a nvivda gpu(it is), is the gpu dead? Been trying to troubleshoot for 4 hours now. Bios update, driver updates, boot in safe mode, nothing works. Ill attach some photos of gpuz and my bios screen

Recently I bought a GTX 970. The exact model is zotac 970 amp extreme core. When I tested it, it had extremely high temps and it was thermal throttling. I thought that the high temperatures caused the artifacting. I opened up the GPU and it basically had zero thermal paste applied. I changed the thermal paste but the artifacts still persist. The artifacts appears whenever i shut down my pc and turn it on. When I restart it the artifacting doesn't appear. After being on for a while some artifacts appear like in the photo I attached, but disappear after a bit of time. The artifact after I turn on my pc look similar to the photo I attached, but instead of groups, the dots appear randomly and alone. The artifacting disappears after the windows lock screen. The artifacts don't appear without drivers. I am 100% sure it's the gpu's fault. The problem also happens on other computers with the 970 installed. Is there any way I could fix the gpu so it wouldn't artifact.

i recently purchased a 3060Ti (unfortunately it was above msrp) but after a few days useage ive noticed heavy graphical problems when playing anything about 1440p when pla8ing games its almost as if the ground keeps sending up little spikes all across the screen im still rather new to the self build pc and troubleshooting problems so figured id try get help from someone who knows what they are doing

Hey guys so I have a dual monitor set up. One of the two an Optix Mag24c all of a sudden started flickering with these weird back and grey lines. The other one is totally fine. I tried everything using an HDMI instead of the DP I'm using. Checking for driver updates restarting. This all started on its own it didn't fall I changed nothing it just went crazy on its own. Does this mean the panel is dead or worse a GPU problem. I really don't have the money to replace it so if someone can help me that would be amazing.

I've been noticing some weird on screen artifacts (looks like green moire patterns) but am not sure if my monitor or gpu is to blame. They started occurring about a month ago at which point I was using a 16:9 1080p monitor via hdmi, but they were very infrequent and barely noticeable. These same artifacts occurred much more aggressively when I switched to a 21:9 1440p monitor (set to native res on desktop), but they were promptly solved when I switched to the second display port cable on my gpu. However, today I noticed that they still occur when using a non-native resolution either in game or on my desktop. If I run a game at a non-native resolution and take a screenshot using geforce experience or steam, the screenshot doesn't have any artifacting if my desktop is set to native res but displays the same artifacts if set to another resolution. I tried setting display scaling to be performed on my GPU in the nvidia control panel, though nothing changed. I also tried to set my desktop resolution to 2560x 1080 to show the artifacting and then unplugged and reinserted the dp cable into the same port on my gpu with nothing changed. I then switched to the other dp port on my cpu and the artifacting was gone, even with my desktop at a non-native res. The artifacting didn't reappear when switching back to the offending port. Any help would be appreciated Edit: GPU is a gtx 970 and current monitor is a gigabyte g34wqc connected by the included displayport 1.4 cable

I have been using my RTX 2060 super for about 9 months now and its been working fine but once i update my graphics drivers my hdmi display out from the graphics card seems to be artifacting. the display goes crazy and has lines all over it and the pixels start moving up and down and side ways in paralell lines. This only happens with driver versions 446.16+ and on my hdmi display I hoped this was a driver issue and nvidea would fix it but after waiting they still havnt i made a post on their forums and they said to just ddu and install a hotfix i havnt tried that but i heard that even if i do the new versions would still have the same issue. is there any fix for this so i can get the latest driver or should i just buy an dp to hdmi cable.

Hello everyone, I've run into issues with artifacting with my Gigabyte Windforce OC RTX 2070super. The artifacts are reminiscent of small green "space invader"-like pixel bunches (see picture, the artifacts are not there when I'm taking a screenshot). The artifacts appear even during light loads e.g. video decode in youtube (but only in fullscreen) and gaming from fallguys to doom eternal. Also I've realized these appear (more frequently) once I'm running my TV in 4K or my full array of a 1080p and a 1440p monitor and my tv in 1080p for example. Disabling screens or lowering resolutions help with the issue. Sadly my GPU is basically just out of warranty System specs: Gigabyte Windforce OC RTX2070super AMD Ryzen 5 3600 Gigabyte Aorus X570 Elite Corsair DDR4 3200MTs CL16 2x16GB Corsair CX750M I've got a Fractal Design Meshify with 3 Silent Wings fans (2in+1out). Things I already tried for troubleshooting: driver fresh install, BIOS update, OS repair, OS clean install (Win10->WIn11) I've also seen problems with my memory/GPU temperature in general (60°C idle; constant 80+°C while gaming+thermal throttling) so i tried: cleaning the system, more aggressive case and GPU fan curves, undervolting, change of GPU die TIM and change of memory thermal pads (ordered high quality ones after miserably failing with no-name chinese ones). That got my temps down to maybe 50°C on idle and way less thermal throttling... but still the card is doing well worse regarding thermals than 3 years ago. GPUZ is reporting memory die temps at 70°C idle. So over all with the way the artifacts show and the increased memory temps I think the main suspect would be some sort of defective memory? Is there anything else you guys can think of? This is my last cry for help... else I'm going to try and survive with the card until the releases of Lovelace, ARC and RDNA2. Thanks alot for your help!

Hello all, first time posting on the forum so forgive me if it's in the wrong location. I'm trying to set my Intel nuc (i3 4010u 12gb ram) up on the TV (lg B9 oled) for my parents to watch game of thrones when I'm not on the playstation, but I'm getting stuttering playback with artifacts and it's unwatchable I've looked online and tried a few basic fixes including buying a new displayport to hdmi 2.1 cable. But it's still unwatchable I'm wondering if the pc just isn't capable of 4k video playback I've attached some photos of the problem as well as the pc specs. Its not a big deal if I can't get it to work, I just thought I'd let them enjoy my Oled when I'm not using it.

My main use for my desktop (which I built myself) is Microsoft Flight Simulator (the 2020 release). Semi-recently, in the MSFS forums, a performance enhancing registry edit (disabling NDU by changing the `start` DWORD value in `HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Ndu` from the default 2 to 4) was floating around, and this has confirmed to increase performance on various setups with varying settings. Fast forward to last week and every flight I do ends in a crash to desktop. Sometimes the CTD confirms while loading, sometimes the CTD happens in the menu, or sometimes at varying intervals in flight. I haven't completed a single flight sim flight for 2 weeks. In some cases, relaunching the sim only to have it crash again ends up also disconnecting both of my monitors from my GPU momentarily, but it always went back to normal. I tried every fix recommended by the MSFS community and by Microsoft/Asobo themselves. Fast forward again to yesterday and I had a new suggestion: revert my NDU setting change. So I set that registry DWORD value back to 2 and rebooted. The moment I logged in nothing looked amiss, but after a few seconds, starting to stream to Discord and doing some only mildly intensive things on the desktop, I notice HEAVY artifacting. All over both screens (photos will be in a reply to this post). No game is able to load, and using the computer becomes impossible. After rebooting to safe mode and reverting the registry change, everything returns back to normal, albeit the MSFS CTD issue still happens. I checked my GPU temps using HWINFO64 during the artifacting and noticed nothing amiss. Average core temp of 38C and Hot spot of 45C. Memory Junction Temp at 43C. With the registry setting set to 2, no matter what setting I choose in MSI afterburner, The artifacting is as serious. I could be on my usual setting (+150 MHz on the core, +1250 MHz on the memory), stock, or with a 30% power limit, but nothing changes. Every time I set the NDU registry DWORD back to 4, it immediately works as normal. Any ideas? My specs: CPU: Intel Core i9-10900K, 5.2 GHz all core, doesn't go above 80C on a looping Cinebench R23 run GPU: MSI Ventus 3X GeForce RTX 3080 10GB GDDR6X OC, using MX-5 thermal paste and 2mm thick Thermalright Extreme Odyssey thermal pads, +150MHz on the core, +1250MHz on the memory RAM: 2x 16GB Corsair Vengeance Pro SL DIMMs, stock at DDR4-3200 16-20-20-34, my settings at DDR4-3500 16-19-20-37 Mobo: Gigabyte Z490 AORUS Pro AX CPU Cooler: Corsair iCue Hydro H100i RGB Pro XT (Arctic MX-5 thermal paste) PSU: EVGA SuperNOVA 850W G2 80+ Gold rated PSU Storage: 2TB Samsung 970 Evo Pro Clarification: I have tried DDU'ing and installing the latest game ready driver (516.59) as of 2022-27-21. The issue never pops up during boot, or in the initial Windows lock screen. Neither does it show up in GRUB, the Arch Linux boot screen, or within Arch itself, even when doing GPU intensive stuff (playing games like Control, the Watch Dogs trilogy, and the The Crew (2)). In Windows when the issue occurs, I am unable to launch any game (even Minecraft crashes).

so i was curious, i haven't played demanding games with my old gtx 950, then i went and test it out to play gta v then i find out i keep seeing these strange black dots when only flying above gta v ocean. but i dont see it anywhere else. are these just like black flying dust/particles or artifacts? dots.mp4

Hello , I bought a second hand RX 580 Gigabyte Aorus Model from at an affordable price. GPU works almost fine at stock clocks albeit a bit hot max temp 80 c+ . So i decided to undervolt it further and managed to make it stable at 1080mv / Vram 925 mv state 7 (max temp now 74c and hovers around 69-70) and changed other values accordingly while keeping all clocks at stock value. But my question is when i was switching different values i noticed artifacting (Black rectangle box, grin yellow pink line, orange line) as well as BSOD's . So my query is did those artifacts while i was undervolting reduced card's lifespan ? PC specs : i5 9400 16gb ddr4 ram RX 580 Aorus 8gb

Seen this a couple of times now when I boot up, goes away after about a minute or two. Tell me the hard truth is she dying?

https://youtu.be/qvCTAPS-la8 So these artifacts are only happening on guns, no other textures or objects. AK 47, M4A1, Galil, Bomb, glock (other guns are fine). And they happen when i inspect guns with F. They are not happening on every map (Expect M4A1). So i noticed a few months ago that M4A1 has a small dot artifact on it but i ignored it, i played then only Office, Inferno, Nuke so there only M4A1 was artifacting with that small dot. But this week i played Vertigo and noticed these 5 guns listed above have a lot of artifacts, they happen when i click F and look a specific direction, only bomb artifacts while i hold it in hand. On mirage it artifacts only while im in warmup room, any other part of map is fine (Expect M4A1, happens everywhere on any map). I reinstalled Windows on new ssd i bought but the same problem was happening with csgo what shoud i do. I also tried setting everything on low and different settings but no difference. Here's video above of artifacting what shoud i do. Specs: Windows 10 Home x64 bit Rx 550 4gb i5 2320 4x2gb - 4gb Kingston 4gb Corsair dual channel 1600mhz SSD: Lexar NQ100 240gb C: HDD: 250MB Hitachi (D: E:) 1 TB Toshiba (F: G:) PSU: Falcon flc 450l MB: ThinkCentre Edge 72 3484N5G - IH61M (prebuild mobo from Lenovo).