Mobile GPU Keeps Killing Itself and Reporting an Error for No Reason

[YobB1n]

Hiya,

 

I have a laptop with a GTX 1050 in it. This is the third time in the past few months that the GPU has randomly killed itself and disappeared from task manager and stopped being of any use, reporting Code 43 in device manager and saying it has been disabled because it caused an error. Can't figure out why it keeps doing this for seemingly no reason. The first time, I fixed it by resetting the entire PC (which sucked, of course), the second I DDU'd it and restarted and it fixed it, now even that isn't working. This is the second time it's happened in less than a week.

 

I can't figure out why this is happening, any insight would be much appreciated. Thanks and Happy New Year!

[Lord Nicoll]

8 minutes ago, YobB1n said:

Hiya,

 

I have a laptop with a GTX 1050 in it. This is the third time in the past few months that the GPU has randomly killed itself and disappeared from task manager and stopped being of any use, reporting Code 43 in device manager and saying it has been disabled because it caused an error. Can't figure out why it keeps doing this for seemingly no reason. The first time, I fixed it by resetting the entire PC (which sucked, of course), the second I DDU'd it and restarted and it fixed it, now even that isn't working. This is the second time it's happened in less than a week.

 

I can't figure out why this is happening, any insight would be much appreciated. Thanks and Happy New Year!

Sounds like it might have died, what laptop is it and how old is it?

[YobB1n]

4 minutes ago, Lord Nicoll said:

Sounds like it might have died, what laptop is it and how old is it?

It's a two-year old Acer Nitro 5; I thought that may be it, however same thing happened a few days ago and I managed to fix it, now it broke again.

[Lord Nicoll]

2 minutes ago, YobB1n said:

It's a two-year old Acer Nitro 5; I thought that may be it, however same thing happened a few days ago and I managed to fix it, now it broke again.

Code 43 I'm afraid is very vague, and just means the GPU said it has some kind of problem, it could still be bad software but unlikely as you DDU'd the drivers, though you might have to straight up reinstall the OS, resetting it might not fix the issue. Be sure to get the activation code for the OS though otherwise you might loose that.