After 4 months of usage horizontal static bar are appearing when G-sync is enabled

[Ishit Singh]

After multiple hours of troubleshooting I'm finally able to find what was causing random horizontal static screen bar and sometimes GPU artifacts to appear when running fullscreen applications.

 

I had to restart my entire PC even after disabling Gsync in nvidia control panel and disabling Freesync ultimate engine in my monitor for these settings to actually get disabled.

 

Why are these artifacts appearing now after 4 months of usage though? Can anyone help me? Did running Gsync on Freesync monitor damaged my GPU?

 

Here are the pictures of artifacts-

 

 

 

[EDIT] Nevermind....artifact still appear even after disabling freesync and gsync but instead of them appearing when i'm in game, they appear right when my monitor gets display output from GPU when booting. Right when monitor LCD power up and get signal from GPU.

 

This is the only picture I was able to take because artifact happen under half a sec

[AndreiArgeanu]

It could be a defect with the monitor. If it's still under warranty I highly suggest contacting the place you bought it from for a potential replacement.

[Ishit Singh]

6 minutes ago, AndreiArgeanu said:

It could be a defect with the monitor. If it's still under warranty I highly suggest contacting the place you bought it from for a potential replacement.

I seriously hope its my monitor and not my 2080 gpu. The monitor is under warranty but I think I'll just buy Gsync monitor and sell my current one, I don't want this nightmare to repeat.

[AndreiArgeanu]

Just now, Ishit Singh said:

I seriously hope its my monitor and not my 2080 gpu. The monitor is under warranty but I think I'll just buy Gsync monitor and sell my current one, I don't want this nightmare to repeat.

In that case you could try to request a refund and get most if not all you money back instead of selling the monitor at a loss.

[CommanderAlex]

But Freesync is AMD's version of G-Sync. You are attempting to run a G-Sync video card(Nvidia) on Freesync (AMD)...I thought that was not possible unless someone else says otherwise. 

[Ishit Singh]

2 minutes ago, CommanderAlex said:

But Freesync is AMD's version of G-Sync. You are attempting to run a G-Sync video card(Nvidia) on Freesync (AMD)...I thought that was not possible unless someone else says otherwise. 

You can actually run Gsync on freesync monitor

 

[Ishit Singh]

4 minutes ago, AndreiArgeanu said:

In that case you could try to request a refund and get most if not all you money back instead of selling the monitor at a loss.

True, I'll give it a try