GPU causing artifacts?

[Colty]

I'm getting artifacting from my GTX 1070Ti... It's a PNY reference card with an EVGA Hybrid cooler installed. It never goes above 73c under stress tests, I haven't OC'd it in months. This happened overnight. I've tried using DDU and re-installing the drivers, same issue. Any next steps? I bought the card on eBay second hand months ago. PNY's RMA site states that they won't honor an RMA if the cooling has been modified. I've got three different monitors and my Windows MR headset. All of them show artifacts. 

 

 

[Colty]

Just re-used DDU, everything was clean for a moment, then all of my monitors kicked in and it artifacted again. 

EDIT: Just my main monitor plugged in and it's artifacting....

[Himommies]

Wouldn't hurt to message Pny

Also can you try and see if you can screenshot the issue?

[Colty]

Tried turning my core voltage and power% slider all the way up and clock speeds all the way down, it helped, but there are still artifacts. 

[Colty]

5 minutes ago, Himommies said:

Wouldn't hurt to message Pny

Also can you try and see if you can screenshot the issue?

Will email PNY on Monday, and here is my best attempt at a screenshot. The first one is with power+voltage all the way up with clocks all the way down, the second image is stock settings. 

[Himommies]

Just now, Colty said:

 

 

 

I don't particularly care about that.If you can screenshot the artifacting it means its a software/driver issue if you can't it's a hardware issue

[Colty]

1 minute ago, Himommies said:

I don't particularly care about that.If you can screenshot the artifacting it means its a software/driver issue if you can't it's a hardware issue

Hmmmm, I hope you're right. I have a secondary machine I can throw it into. Couple questions though before I get my hopes up, is it possibly my power supply? It's maybe four years old, it's an NZXT 750w Gold, but the fan's been making a very faint whine, should I try other PCIe slots?

I also tried the latest driver before this most recent one and I'm having the same issue. Could it be a corrupted video card bios? 

[Himommies]

Just now, Colty said:

It's maybe four years old, it's an NZXT 750w Gold, but the fan's been making a very faint whine,

Probaly not

 

Just now, Colty said:

hould I try other PCIe slots?

if you have a seperate PC try that first

[Colty]

A few things I tried...
 

Updating bios: Nothing changes on the Windows side, but no artifacting in the bios, good sign there.

iGPU: No artifacting when the display is connected through that.

Reseat GPU and GPU power cable: Didn't make a difference, but the PCIe latch wasn't totally locking it in, didn't fix this problem, but maybe avoided something big later.

Next steps: Trying another PC, depending on how that goes, maybe Windows re-install, maybe mobo RMA, maybe PCIe slot swap, maybe cry myself to sleep over dead GPU. 

[Colty]

GPU is in secondary PC, just finished driver installation, no issues before driver install, artifacting is back after driver install. 

[Colty]

Based on it happening in the secondary machine, I'm guessing it's either a driver issue/vbios issue or a dead card. Should I try a bios flash? 

 

[Colty]

This happened and it flickered a lot when I opened Fortnite....

[Colty]

Email to PNY sent, waiting waiting waiting.... Ugh. 

[Colty]

19 hours ago, Himommies said:

I don't particularly care about that.If you can screenshot the artifacting it means its a software/driver issue if you can't it's a hardware issue

Is it really true that if you can screenshot it, it's software? I'd like to believe that, but I don't want to get my hopes up. It makes sense, but if there is a rendering issue on the hardware side, couldn't it still be seen in the software?

[Himommies]

26 minutes ago, Colty said:

Is it really true that if you can screenshot it, it's software? I'd like to believe that, but I don't want to get my hopes up. It makes sense, but if there is a rendering issue on the hardware side, couldn't it still be seen in the software?

It's not 100 percent guaranteed,but it's a good way to start off,as you can write off your monitor and cables as working at least

Also try underclocking GPU 

[Himommies]

15 hours ago, Colty said:

it flickered a lot when I opened Fortnite....

This was a glitch that happened a while back.

IDK exactly how to fix but I remember it was Nvida Control panel fucking things up

[Colty]

13 minutes ago, Himommies said:

It's not 100 percent guaranteed,but it's a good way to start off,as you can write off your monitor and cables as working at least

Also try underclocking GPU 

Tried turning my core voltage and power% slider all the way up and clock speeds all the way down, it helped, but there are still artifacts. 

[Colty]

Used DDU again and turned off windows update through the services tab... Once the driver initializes, it begins to artifact... Now it's happening less so, and through both my iGPU and 1070Ti... This just keeps getting more and more random...

[Colty]

Okay, maybe it is just as much as it was previously, I'm not sure of anything anymore.

And when it was happens through the iGPU, it's mostly videos, but happens randomly on Steam review pages for example. 

[Colty]

Installed iGPU drivers and no artifacting off iGPU display....