display occasionally turns into a single colour.

[PcMasterRaceNewborn]

So sometimes, my display becomes one solid colour. It generally seems to become the colour that was most common on the screen at that time. For example, lets say I was looking at a picture of the communist flag, the screen might suddenly become completely red, or if I was on Chrome, the screen would become fully white. The screen may become one solid colour, or it might become the colour but with lines going down it (generally, the lines seem to be a similar shade to the colour that's covering the screen, but not always). I think the issue happens a lot more when I'm on a game. Sometimes, my PC then crashes, other times, it just stays that colour and occasionally it goes back to normal. Also, occasionally the screen tears before this happens. Also, sometimes, if I turn my PC off and on after this happens, as soon as I enter the login screen it happens again (turning blue in this case).

I think it might be an issue with my GPU, which is a Radeon HD 6950 and is around 5-7 years old, but I can't be sure. I updated the drivers so that they are the most recent compatible ones.

[Skiiwee29]

There is a problem with the AMD drivers right now. Its happening as well on the newer RX 5700 cards too. 

 

https://twitter.com/bitwitkyle/status/1161800260856901632?s=20

[PcMasterRaceNewborn]

1 minute ago, Skiiwee29 said:

There is a problem with the AMD drivers right now. Its happening as well on the newer RX 5700 cards too. 

 

https://twitter.com/bitwitkyle/status/1161800260856901632?s=20

I meant the screen completely becomes a single colour, like a solid red, rather than having the display look like it's gone through a colour filter. I can't signs of what was on the screen before it happened. Also, would the issues with the drivers affect the radeon crimson software beta drivers from 2016?

[Skiiwee29]

1 minute ago, PcMasterRaceNewborn said:

I meant the screen completely becomes a single colour, like a solid red, rather than having the display look like it's gone through a colour filter. I can't signs of what was on the screen before it happened. Also, would the issues with the drivers affect the radeon crimson software beta drivers from 2016?

if you think the GPU is dying then, you could try and run DDU and clean out all the old drivers and download the newest available for your card and then run a torture test on it like Furmark and see how it reacts and handles. 

[PcMasterRaceNewborn]

Just now, Skiiwee29 said:

if you think the GPU is dying then, you could try and run DDU and clean out all the old drivers and download the newest available for your card and then run a torture test on it like Furmark and see how it reacts and handles. 

Right, thanks! I'll see what happens then!