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Hello everyone. Recently I've noticed a green bar appearing on top of videos whenever I'm on youtube, it only started a few days ago. My assumption is that my 'monitor' (which is a 1080p tv at 32") is just faulty overall. Im running a Ryzen 7 5700G and no discrete GPU, I'm connected through the HDMI port. It will appear in one video, disappear for the next 4~6, and then reappear again. Any ideas?

Hey everyone, I've been encountering a rather perplexing intermittent issue when starting up my PC, and I'm hoping someone here can offer some insight. Sometimes, when I power on my PC, I notice these unusual red and green pixels appearing on my monitor. Some of them stay static, while others blink, and this only happens during the NZXT boot-up screen. Here is a video of the artifacts: https://youtu.be/GRp4o3gW4WA?si=Olj8hXllUdTsyAQU What's really puzzling is that this problem doesn't occur every time. It's sporadic at best. And here's the kicker – once Windows is loaded, there are absolutely no problems whatsoever. Gaming, regular use, everything is perfectly fine. I've gone the extra mile to troubleshoot this. I've tried different cables, even switched to another monitor, and I've even reinstalled Windows, but the issue persists. Here are my PC specs: - Motherboard: NZXT N7 B650E - GPU: GIGABYTE GeForce RTX 4070 Aero OC - Monitor: Samsung The Space 27 - OS: Windows 11 - CPU: Ryzen 7 7800X3D Has anyone else encountered this issue or have any ideas on what might be causing it? I'm open to any suggestions or solutions you might have. Thanks in advance for your help!

Hey there! I have these weird artifacts on my 2nd monitor when alt + tabbing while a video is playing on my 2nd monitor. I'll add the video of the issues and the system info down below! Video of the issue: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1DU_elIpBM1iEzXMqJfJ-4oy4dtTRTTq_/view HW Acceleration is off in Google Chrome. The game is in Full Screen. System is fully updated (BIOS,GPU Driver, Windows Updates, Chipset Driver...) System Info Windows 10 Home (x64) Build 19045.2913 Motherboard: ASUS PRIME B550-PLUS Bios Version: 3002 (Default Settings, D.O.C.P On, Resizeable Bar on) RAM: 16 GB (2x8GB Sticks) Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR 4 3200MHz CL-16 CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 3600 (No OC) GPU: Powercolor Hellhound AMD Radeon RX 6600 XT (No OC) Storage: Samsung SSD 750 EVO 120GB | Samsung SSD 850 EVO 250GB (Bootdrive) | NVMe Crucial P5 Plus 500GB PSU: Thermaltake Smart SE 530W Modular Monitor Main Monitor: iiyama GB2760QSU (1440p 144Hz) - Connected Via DP 2nd Monitor: BenQ GL2450 (1080p 60Hz) - Connected via HDMI I've had issues with video playback on my 2nd monitor for quite some time now, it's fine currently because it's just artifacts but I had my main screen lagging out while a video was running, I had bluescreen while watching videos, which are gone currently but I have no clue what's wrong with my system. Thanks for reading this and I hope you have a fantastic day :)

Hello, recently I have made a new computer, it has a Ryzen 9 7900x, 32gb of ddr5 ram, a 850w psu, a 3090, and a h150i capellix aio. After a long render session blender started to come up with "illegal address" and cuda errors, and my screen had green artifacts and games did aswell. So In response, I restarted my pc, and then did a clean reinstall of the drivers (studio this time) yet the problem still persists, I have asked other people and they seem to think that the 3090 has vram issues, which could be a possibility due to it being a refurbished GPU from Amazon. I am just wanting to see what you all think is the problem, and if I should just return it and get a replacement from amazon. Images below are artifacts in games, the specific game is in fortnite and similar or worse artifacts appear in other games.

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?

So I have a GALAX GTX3070 in my PC, it's giving me this weird vertical green line occasionally along with screen tearing, only on the top portion of my screen. I've done the below diagnostic tests so far and I simply cannot workout why this is occurring... Hoping someone else has solutions/ideas for me? Replaced display cable Updated drivers Deleted drivers and re-installed Different monitor Re-seated GPU, RAM, CPU and all power cables Toggled G-Sync & V-Sync on/off Toggled HDR on/off (With HDR off, the green line is almost completely gone, however screen tearing still occurs constantly) Wipe all drives and fresh windows install Note: When taking screenshots, no defects are present. The green line is only really present when looking at a white backdrop (as you'll see in photo) and the screen tearing is only on the very top of the screen, and only really present in Battlefield 5, don't see it much in many other games. (video is short to keep under 20MB limit) Clip.mp4

So i just noticed this while playing dead by daylight, a flashy orange spot that happens when i walk through the basement wall on the stairs and it's random as well, It isn't consistent and doesn't always happen. (Same color as sun-set and candles in that map). And it doesn't happen LITERALLY anywhere else on the map. Even in games like GTA V (although the game map goes blurry sometimes on CUSTOM FiveEm servers but never the official ones.) and Forza Horizon 4 They don't happen. Tried running SuperPosition too to make sure my GPU is good, Nothing came up. What's this ? and what can i define that as ? I just hope it isn't an artifact. Is it ? I5-11400 RTX 3070 TUF 16gb ram Dead by Daylight 2023.05.16 - 19.23.39.01_Trim (3).mp4

my rig is i5-11400 with antec A400I cooler and my gpu is an Asus tuf 3070 3 fans, 16 gigs of ram and 1tb hdd (playing on) and a 240gb ssd for the system. I was playing Cyberpunk and throughout the game i noticed these lights on some places small (always) like these parts. In the general world there aren't any, nor in places where i am supposed to look. but places like these aka dumpsters, Behind sink etc i get these flashing lights and they actually look like it causes a sun like reflection in the screen as if im looking at the sun when they flash ? Are these GPU artifacts or Game related? I noticed this in the last of us part 1 too but since the game has really bad opt i put it to that. i play dead by daylight and forza horizon 4 as well on max settings and i see nothing. i tried running superstition the benchmark tool and msi kombustor each for 5 minutes or so and i found nothing, GPU isn't overheating too. So i am both paranoid and confused ? Cyberpunk 2077 2023.05.05 - 19.03.36.01_Trim.mp4 Cyberpunk 2077 2023.05.05 - 19.03.36.01_Trim.mp4 Cyberpunk 2077 2023.05.05 - 19.11.29.02_Trim.mp4

Hi guys, After lurking for years a post from me. A few weeks back I experienced black bar artifacts in CoD Warzone and Multiplayer (see vid). After trying different Nvidia Drivers, reinstalling the game, reinstalling windows and DDU runs I gave up on the game. I thought it was the game what was at fault. And after playing a few games of Overwatch without a hiccup I thought I was right. But this evening I was firing up my Ghost Recon Wildlands, and the problem here was much more intents (see vid). Using multiple NVidia drivers don't have any result. I don't have an overclock on the system, nor did a underclock help the problem. I am running the following system: 6700k @ 4.4 ghz Zotac GTX 3080 AMP edition MSI Z170 Pro-A Do I need to say my 1080 goodbye?

Hi all, I've scoured for answers elsewhere, so I hope I can find some here. I've finally made the upgrade to 1440p 144hz with the VG270U. The one issue I've run into though is weird artifacting in a select few applications. The two I use for example is NZXT CAM and Medal, with a screenshot of each seen below. This also occurs in the Flashpoint 9.0 launcher. So far CAM, Medal, and Flashpoint are the only application's I've run into that this happens with. Has anyone experienced this before? It isn't the biggest of issues, but like any PC enthusiast, I like to smooth out the creases wherever I can. If you need extra information, feel free to ask. Thanks!

Hey guys, so just yesterday I noticed some artifacts on my screen during boot up and I don't exactly know what's causing it. Prior to these events, my GPU (1650) Driver was not installed to the latest update. I don't know if that's relevant or anything but I just want y'all to know. video-1617235086.mp4

I have an ASUS ROG GL552JX with integrated Intel HD 4600 and a dedicated NVIDIA GTX 950M. Applications using the integrated graphics are working fine and does not show any artifacts. The same thing cannot be said when using the NVIDIA GPU (changed thru NVIDIA Control Panel) Does this mean my GPU is dying? The only thing I've tried was reinstalling old/new NVIDIA Drivers. laptop sucks ay? Specifications: Intel Core i7-4720HQ 8 Cores@ 2.60GHz 4 GB RAM Intel HD Graphics 4600 2GB VRAM NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950M 6GB VRAM

I've come into possession of a Gigabyte 2070 from one of my friends, and it has a quite the history. The original owner had bought it to use in someone else's build over 2 years ago, but kept having artifacting and BSODs, so he sent it into Gigabyte for repair. Twice. Neither time had fixed his issue, and the working theory is that Gigabyte just flashed the BIOS both times. After the second time he gave up on the card and just put into storage. He then gave it to my friend as they're family members and he was needing to downsize since he was moving. My friend then sent it in again to Gigabyte, as it was still in warranty, and when he got it back it started working for about a week and then started bluescreening and artifacting at random. Then he gave it to me as we thought that it was a possible power supply issue since he had also gotten a 650W supply that wasn't opened from the original 2070 owner. After doing some testing of my own with the 650W and an older board I had with a gtx 460 and a i5 7400, I concluded that it wasn't the power supply that was the problem. Even so, I bought a new 850W power supply just to make sure that it wasn't the cause of the issue. I did get the card to work before installing drivers, as I was getting video output, but my friend had told me that he had gotten artifacting even without drivers installed. The drivers fully downloaded but during installation the screen went red, and after restarting the computer it only displays a black screen after the windows splash screen. I really don't know what else to do with this 2070 because as of right now it's essentially just a paperweight. I want to get it fixed so I might be able to give it to a friend who might want to build a computer, as the 2070 is a small form factor card and I have a full 2060 super already, so I imagine it would operate similarly and I don't really need the upgrade. Along with the 2070 my friend received a lot of other parts too, he got a full tub of them with some really good parts, such as a 780 TI and 1080 as reference with a couple intel motherboards and chips. We've both been collectively using these parts to make sort of frankenstein builds for people, and we've been just giving the parts to them free of charge because we don't want them to be wasted. The card is now out of warranty and I am completely stumped on what to do, and I don't even know if there is anything to do if it's a physical issue with the silicon or something else, I just don't really want to see a 2070 get wasted, especially in the GPU climate we have today.

Hello im new to this form and a long time LTT follower. Today a little story about some gpu trouble i had. So im specialized in buying second hand for cheap and reselling it in a pc with everything like new. I found a seller for an asus rx 570 4gb. He sold it me for cheap(80 euro in dollars close to 90 i think). Now the story, So i combined it in a pc with the following components: ryzen 1600, msi b350, 8gb ran, a little ssd of 120gb, 1tb and a corsair cx500. Also an old sharkoon case with yeah a dvd reader/writer. When time to test the system it worked fine. But i got random artifacts. These were pretty frequent and wouldn't always crash the gpu. After a while the system could recover without a restart. The following video will show what i mean What did i try: restarting changing the psu reinstalling the drivers reinstalling windows chaning the power limit, clocks on the card use the gpu in another system(this weirdly didnt gave me any artifacts) So after that information i knew it had to be something with the gpu drivers. I saw a post somewhere that these amd gpus had a one point problems with drivers crashing. Reinstalling did nothing, i knew that the person i bought it froim said that he got it from a miner and changed the bios on the gpu. But apparantly there were still some problems(idk maybe a bit flip or just a wrong bios that just worked). So i got to study how to change the bios for a gpu, readed a lot on https://www.techpowerup.com/. Learned to save the old gpu driver with gpu-z(VERY IMPORTANT) and uploading a new driver. After doing that this problem went away. I did lots of tests to confirm this(gaming and stress tests). So fellow pc builders/technicians, when you are out of options this could maybe be a fix for your old (maybe broken) gpu. Also i told the guy i bought it from and showed him what problem i got, and he told me he would take the card if i couldn't find the problem, friendly guy Hope you guys like the little story!

Hey guys. Long-time lurker, first time making a topic. Could really use your input. TLDR at the bottom. I recently upgraded my hardware and started having weird issues with my GTX 1080. I was not having these issues prior to upgrading. MSI Z97 Gaming 5 -> MSI Z590-A Pro 4790K -> 11600KF G.SKILL Aegis DDR4 32GB 2x16 DDR4 2666, Timings 19-19-19-43. Stock settings for troubleshooting purposes Gigabyte GTX 1080 Gaming X 8G Seasonic FOCUS PX-750, 750W 80+ Platinum Windows 10 => Windows 11 Clean Install, all drivers uptodate Bios is set to factory settings. No overclocks. The problem is Artifacts which ultimately results in the game crashing and the GPU hanging with errors like DXGI_ERROR_DEVICE_HUNG in DX12 titles. Timespy failing mid run. Unigine Heaven artifacts. See this youtube video for the kind of artifacts I was seeing in Heaven: GPU temps are fine, in the neighborhood of upper 60 to lower 70c. The ONLY thing that would solve the problem is underclocking the GPU core. Memory made no difference, which I found odd for what limited knowledge I have on artifacting, which usually is a VRAM issue. I ultimately landed on an underclock of only 25Mhz! That seems awfully low an underclock to solve the issue. I even went as far as updating to the latest VBIOS for this specific model, as it had some slight clock differences, but it made no difference whatsoever. So i'm thinking the GPU has just degraded over time, as it is a second hand unit from someone who never mined. Doing what any desperate gamer would do, I entered the Newegg Shuffle on Monday morning. Was selected (Apparently its possible, hang in there!) and purchased an ASUS ROG Strix RTX 3060 Ti V2 OC Edition LHR, and received it 2 days later. With the new GPU installed, all problems solved. Knowing the 1080 seems to run fine slightly underclocked, I brought it over to my friends house who is running a B550/Ryzen 5 3600/GTX 1660. I explained he would need to underclock it slightly. So we ran DDU in safemode, installed the card and latest drivers. (Same drivers I was running BTW), and underclocked it to -25 in MSI Afterburner. We tested out ARK, Monster Hunter Rise, & Rocket League. We ran Heaven Extreme, no artifacts. All the while he is drooling over his new FPS. He runs 1440p monitors and I run 1080p. So no doubt he was stressing the card more than I would be, but everything ran without a hitch. So we removed the underclock, and lo and behold, no heaven artifacts. No issues whatsoever. So I'm thinking, what is different about his system. He has an AMD system, B450 with PCIe Gen 3. My system is a x570 with Gen 4. So that got me to thinking, and I went home to look at my BIOS settings. PEG0 - Max Link Speed [Auto] PCI Latency Timer [32 PCI Bus Clocks] GTX 1080 is PCIe Gen 3. Could that have been the problem all along? Some kind of negotiation issues? Did I really just purchase a new overpriced $669 GPU (before tax, admittedly not a terrible price all things considered) in this crazy market, winning the Newegg Shuffle on my first try, and it was just a BIOS setting causing my issues all along??? I'm still dumbfounded by the whole ordeal. Not sure if I can sleep tonight not having the 1080 in hand to test these BIOS settings. Asking friend if he would be willing to bring the card so I can try changing link speeds. Or should I even bother? TLDR Have you ever seen PCIe Link speeds in bios cause artifacts and game crashing? x570 is PCIe Gen 4, Bios was set to AUTO. GTX 1080 is Gen 3.

My cousin's PC just got an SSD and it was working fine before. But then he said his display started showing some white lines. So he took it to the service center and it was fine there. When he got it back home there was these weird lines on the screen. I can see the background moving, cursor moving, and even the wallpaper. I will attach a picture. The bios screen works fine. Everything seems fine. This happens only when booting to windows. I thought there was a problem with the VGA cable (yes VGA). But it works with another PC. He took the pc back to the service center and it worked fine there too! Do I have to reinstall windows? Is there anything I can try?

Okay so i bought a 1660 super around a month ago and i used to test it every now and then and today concludes a month since i bought it. So 3 days ago i ran 4 tests Valley Superstition Heavens And furmark. And none of them showed signs of crashes or artifacts by any means. The thing is i tried playing league of legends for a bit for the past 2 days and i noticed some stuff in the map flicker for a split second once then poof gone forever. Fortnite a more demanding game on the other hand doesn't have any artifacts in which i know (Triangles , polygons , rectangles , dots.) And no crashes. Is my gpu fine? Can games really sometimes have bugs that look like artifacts?? Thanks! Im on 466.72 btw.

I have been getting some strange black artifacts on my screen when I upgraded to windows 11. They only come up when Im just using my pc for general stuff like browsing the internet or talking to friends on discord. When I stress test my gpu I dont get any artifacts, I only get them when my pc has been turned on for a long time. My friends can see the artifacts on screenshare too, so maybe it is software related? I have like 6 days left of my pc warranty what should I do?

Hi all, It's been 2 months or so since I have purchased my new laptop, it is a Dell G15 5511, i7-11800H, 16GB Ram, 1TB SSD, Windows 11 64-bit. It has a RTX 3060 however the 165hz screen uses the Intel UHD Graphics. BIOS version is 1.8.2 I have recently noticed some strange shadowing/artifacts on webpages/applications as seen in the screenshots below (I'm unsure how long this has been going on for) they seem to be more prominent on darker screens and even with night light enabled you can see them with the orange hue. I am not certain whether this is a software or a hardware issue hence why I am reaching out for any support anyone can give and this will be much appreciated. I have contacted Dell itself and have gone through all the mundane troubleshooting in which it has been no help. I have updated all drivers on both the Intel side and Nvidia. I have updated BIOS, the screen has no physical damage. The GPU passed a stress test (RTX 3060), I changed the refresh rate on the display & so on but nothing seems to be working. The issue doesn't seem to occur on whiter screens as much, for example when I was in the BIOS screen I could not see it there however on other white screens (less bright) it may appear. I played phasmophobia earlier and could notice certain areas where this was occurring although faint, however it did not seem to cause any issues on Black Ops 3. I should probably also mention that on some instances when using applications, although rare, the screen will flicker to black for a second then come back on, whether this is an application compatibility issue due to Windows 11 again I am unsure of. Dell has now asked me to revert the system back to a time where it was working fine in which I cannot recall for the life of me, so it wouldn't fix the issue. I was wondering if anyone here has experienced this with a Dell Laptop or laptop similar & what they did to fix this/solve it as the last thing I want is to RMA it now. Please see all the attached screenshots below and if there are any further questions let me know. [Screenshots of Artifacts] (https://ibb.co/r39tZmm ; https://ibb.co/HFJCfVF ; https://ibb.co/bKD2HFK ; https://ibb.co/LnZ7h7m ; https://ibb.co/yRXtWSj)

So i was playing league of legends the other day nothing big and i noticed that a part of the map was behaving weirdly ? in the video i zoomed in so you guys can see that the top part is flickering and the bottom is okay and there seems to be a LINE between the two where one is flickering and another isnt ? Is that a gpu thing or just a game bug ? Rig is : i5 11400 gtx 1660 super zotac AMP 16 gb ram 240GB Ssd 1tb HDD 650W PSU bronze v2 mwe Edit : Added another video zooming in and out to try and make it more clear League of Legends 2022.03.18 - 20.29.15.01_Trim.mp4 League of Legends 2022.03.18 - 20.29.15.01_Trim (2).mp4

Well, after around 4 years of use I think that my laptop finally decided to "die". I was getting a lot of blue screens with the "system exception" stop code when using the laptop so I decided to trouble shoot and investigate. I tried reinstalling drivers, windows (it failed on first boot and reverted everything back) but nothing seemed to work. I went to event viewer and saw a bunch of kernel related issues specifying something about power and an INT device. I tested the cpu for 1 hour in Intel XTU and it passed. I tested the iGPU in Kombustor and it started artifacting at around what was read by the program 41C. Kombustor was not reading the load of the iGPU and I decided to open task manager and... it blue screened. Is there anything I can do? Additional info: OS - Windows 10 x64 What OS was originaly installed on the system: no Is the OS an OEM version: no Age of system: 4 Years +/- a few months Age of OS installation: less than a month (the laptop had very little use after I built my PC) CPU model: i3 5005u Video Card model: GT920m 2GB DDR3 + Intel HD5500 System Manufacturer: Asus Exact model number: A540LJ XX612D Laptop

Problem: Minecraft randomly freezes, monitor shows blackscreen and shows the Minecraft window completely white. Radeon shows the typical "A system failiure occured crash". Also the start menu is rendered not correctly. Had a lot of problems before switching RAM because it was unstable for Radeon.The computer runs stable with a Asus ROG Strix 1060 6GB. Got a lot of software running in background (ICUE 3, G HUB, Discord, Samsung Magician, Sonic Studio, AURA, ASUS GPU Tweak 2). Happens often when Firefox is open on my second monitor. Noticed Kernel Power Errors in Event-Screen, not sure if it's important though. Had a ton of problems with Radeon, can't keep count of them. Update: Found some artifacts on screen while doing basic browsing, pictures below. Also appear in Windows and Steam. Update: Hitching in DBD+crash at one point, dump below. Update: T-Junction Temps definetely below 90° all the time, temps are not the problem Update: Using SignalRGB now. Causes graphic problems with all kinds of games yielding the classic Radeon crash. Example could be WoT, crashed mid-game Specs: Windows 10 64 bit AMD Ryzen 5 2600 with Wraith Spire Asus B450-F Gaming Mainboard - Bios 4007 BeQuiet 600W Semi-Modular 80 Plus Bronze ASUS ROG Strix Radeon RX 5700XT Corsair DDR4 Vengeance Pro RGB 3200Mhz Cl 16 Samsung 970 EVO (as Boot Drive) Troubleshootings: Disable HA (Hardware acceleration) on Firefox Reinstall Windows Drivers up to date Updated Bios to 4007 Underclocked the snot out of it with GPU Tweak 2 and even giving it more power sfc /scannow dism swapped ram (confirmed working now) tried RMA graphics card, was send back after "check", so it should be supossed to be working fine??? DDU of drivers Agressive fan curve in order to keep sub-90 junction temps Reset BIOS settings to "optimized defaults" Running RAM on stock speeds (pending) Cranking the shit down in Radeons "WattMan" as far as it would go (pending) Speculations: I have actually suspected the graphics card to be faulty and damaged. At this point i don't know whats going on and suspect a combination of hardware and software issues that lead to constantely changing errors. Some people believe that i got a card with very poor VRMs or VRAM. Final words: Pls help, I'm exhausted after 1 year of trouble with this stupid graphics card (I basically hate AMD after this). Tried to include as many details as possible, feel free to request something. Please try to find the information you need in the DxDiag or Sysinfo first, even though it's in german. Thanks for looking in here, i appreciate your efforts. DxDiag.txt Radeon crash.evtx Radeon crash_1033.MTA Systeminfo.txt UE4Minidump.dmp

Flashing artifact pixels with a driver crash, not lines. watch video Problem started randomly. no hardware or software changes. I dont have Msi afterburner and i haven't overclocked any of my hardware. I've cleaned and tried different drivers while using DDU in safemode to clean drivers. GPU and CPU temps idle 35-40 Celsius Tried all that little stuff with reformatting, bios and Cmos. it just randomly happens after loading windows, Sometimes it comes in waves than stops for 30 mins, more common when using browser or playing games. but still happens when not in use. Windows 10 Intel i5 4690k Samsung ssd 860 1TB Nvidia gtx 2070 super Driver version 471.11 Coolermaster 650 watt mwe bronze I have tested a 900W power supply & Gtx 780 with almost identical results, just crashes without artifact pixels. both worked fine in friends pc. Would love to hear everyone's thoughts? video-1625224287.mp4

In the past few days I've been overclocking my GPU a lot and pushed it to it's limits, It was stable and didn't show any artifacts so i considered that it was fine. Today, I booted my PC, went to play a game and noticed some artifacts like blue, green, yellow, red dots in some places of textures and stuff, when i was not moving or the camera wasn't shaking, it was fine but when i was moving the camera and shaking my screen they begun to show, so i put my gpu back to stock overclocks but didn't help. This didn't happen until i downloaded the latest driver update for the graphics card, so i reinstalled the update that i considered didn't have artifacts and was stable to no evail. Can anyone help me? I tried already underclocking and it seems to be uneffective. Footage of the artifacts. The footage doesn't really show well the green dots or anything else since i've put it on windowed mode to quickly tab out and record. But trust me, they are there. 920150062_2021-07-2112-02-42.mkv

Hi everyone, I changed my thermal paste and pads on my Zotac RTX 3070. It isn't my first GPU thermal paste replacement, but the first time I messed up. I've done the exact same procedure as Chapter 1 on 3 others cards in the past. I did overclock the card a little bit, but not that much, was perfectly stable, didn't do any big stress test or didn't touch the voltage tho. GPU temps never did go over 80°C. Chapter 1: The origin I changed the GPU paste to the Thermal Grizzly Kryonaut one (12,5 W/MK) I removed the old one with microfiber towel and a very little isopropanol alcohol. I carefully remove all pads with metallic tweezers without touching any other metallic piece. Then I cleaned the VRAM cells again with microfiber towel and isoprop, and dried it. Then I added brand news one Adwits 6W/MK (which aren’t that good after benchmark, but cheap). I measured the exact height of each original with a caliper and then cutted the exact dimension for the new pad. Result: Then the card didn't even seem to boot, and was not even recognized in GPU-Z. My first mistake: using microfiber towel may have caused static. I facepalmed afterwards when thinking about it (even it's so damn effective compared to paper towel) Second mistake: I've put a little bit too much paste, not like the Vergy McCumshot, but a little too much, which of course overwhelmed on the decoupling capacitors nearby. Third mistake: I screwed the sockets screw a little bit too hard, not at maximum but maybe a little too hard, I guess. Chapter 2: The revenge of the screws Dissembled the whole thing again, cleaned all the decoupling capacitors who had thermal paste on them, with towel and isoprop. I repasted very carefully the GPU with the exact amount of paste I needed too. Next, I only lightly screwed the socket screws. Double checked everything, found out that they were also pads on the other side as well, between the card and the backplate, cleaned and changed them too. Result: Worked, but heavy blur and artifacts. I don't have any artifacts in the UEFI or BIOS tho. The card is now recognized in GPU-Z, only the memory doesn’t appear. Chapter 3: A new hope Connectors seems good. I can't plug it through anything else than HDMI (I've 3x DP port + 1 HDMI), otherwise black screen. Did a DDU in safe mode, reinstalled the drivers manually, resettled the resolution at 1920x1080, blurness away but still artifacts. Result: Worked, but still artifacts. Chapter 4: Endgame Maybe flashing the BIOS will do? Aaaaaaaaaaand there isn't any corresponding BIOS files available for my GPU, so I didn't flash it. I can't even save the actual BIOS in GPUZ, when GPUZ stops the driver, black screen and it doesn't come back. Conclusion: I still have those damn artifacts. Memory not detected in GPUZ, Afterburner doesn't even detect the card. I didn't have any anti static equipment at the time, but now I do, and I now only use isoprop with a strong paper towel. I still was careful the whole time, unscrewing, dissembling, cleaning and didn't scratched the card or dropped it. I knew the risks. Things I've learned so far: -Overwhelming paste can cause trouble on nearby capacitor, even if I thought thermal paste was totally dielectric since its silicone based, turn out to not be totally true for some paste, which can cause troubles when overwhelming. -Take static more seriously. -Artifacts are mostly a VRAM problem, which can be caused by over screwing, lack of pads or good contacts between the pads and the radiator, corrupted BIOS and few others reasons. So, what is the next step? What did I miss ? Crying alone in a corner on my miserable life or repair shop ? Is it even repairable ? Are spare pieces even available at the current time ? Should I pay respect and move on ? Thanks in advance. PS: I've considered a Chapter 5: The Oven strikes back at 280°C during 12 mins to solve any soldering issues but I somehow doubt this will do anything since the card did perform well before the pad change. I didn't know if this trick it still relevant in 2021 with RTX cards.