Is my 1050 on it's deathbed?

wolfmcbeard · September 21, 2022

So I have another gpu I could use and an rtx 2060 arriving later today, but I've been some weird issues that I can only deduce are from the gpu, I have two displays hooked up to hdmi, but the problem I'm having is my second display keeps dropping out for a few seconds and coming back with an audio device change alert, most of the time when the signal to monitor 2 drops out, but sometime both displays go out for about 15 seconds and the pc reboots.
The card didn't seem to have issues prior to this and I have made no system changes in the past two weeks, this started a few days ago.
As I said, I have one gpu I can use as a back up (a gt 1030) and I have rtx 2060 I'll be installing today, so if the card is going out, oh well, but I'd like to get some other opinions before I relegate this thing to the e-waste bin.

Edit:
Card in question is a Gigabyte GTX 1050 Gaming 2gb.
I got it practically new from a friend since he needed a gpu that didn't need a 6pin power connector, so I traded them another Gigabyte 1050 that ran off board power, it worked fine in my previous system for the month or so I had it before putting it in this pc in the start of september.

Edited September 21, 2022 by wolfmcbeard