Dying GPU?

[SypherRS]

Hello!

 

Recently my poor laptop has been going through all sorts of trouble. My battery is dead so it's now only power from the wall and now this:

 

When this happens the laptop is completely unresponsive until rebooted. Then works fine until it randomly decides to do this again. Please tell me it's just some driver mismatch or something, I really can't afford to build a new PC right now... Any recommendations would be greatly appreciated.

 

I should add, the GPU is a 1060 6g and the temps seem fine considering it's a laptop. They usually don't go too far over 80 under stress. Also the EventViewer offers no help at all only telling me the PC restarted unexpectedly.

Thanks

Edited June 2, 2022 by SypherRS

[SorryBella]

1 minute ago, SypherRS said:

When this happens the laptop is completely unresponsive until rebooted. Then works fine until it randomly decides to do this again. Please tell me it's just some driver mismatch or something

You could try that first, honestly. But from how it look it could genuinely be a hardware problem rather than software, try to boot into safe mode and see if it immediately borked itself. Also, check for dust and if the fan even spin.

[SypherRS]

Just now, SorryClaire said:

You could try that first, honestly. But from how it look it could genuinely be a hardware problem rather than software, try to boot into safe mode and see if it immediately borked itself. Also, check for dust and if the fan even spin.

First thing I did was thoroughly cleaning the whole thing and repasting it while I was in there... No help. Also the fans spin fine... They're loud and they move a lot of air as they should, no problem there

 

I'll try the safe mode and see, but it's super random so I don't have any guarantee it will happen within a reasonable timeframe

[SypherRS]

21 minutes ago, SorryClaire said:

You could try that first, honestly. But from how it look it could genuinely be a hardware problem rather than software, try to boot into safe mode and see if it immediately borked itself. Also, check for dust and if the fan even spin.

20+ minutes and nothing to report honestly no clue what could be causing this

[LennyD]

First obvious thing i would do is reinstall the drivers then see if the video problems persist.

 

Does your laptop have any integrated GPU? Or just the dedicated 1060?