Is my GPU dying/faulty?

[Lukas32]

So around a year ago I got myself a Gigabyte 1050ti 4gb. It worked great, until today. I came home today around 6pm and when the screen turned on, I saw what I can only describe as if somebody threw water at a fresh painting. A portion of the screen was in different colours, another part was all blue and the rest was the desktop screen, but it was moved down to a corner and the icons looked unrecognizable. Turning the monitor off and on resulted in "No signal". Tried using HDMI cable instead of DP and got "No signal" again. Restarting the pc, and... it didn't wanna turn on. I took the gpu out, cleaned it of all dust and whatnot and put it back in its place. Pc turned on and everything worked, until after about 20min when i finished my dinner and saw the same screen i saw when I came home. Monitor would show no signal again, but the pc restarts now, and the monitor looks normal after a restart. Is the GPU done for or could something else be the issue?

I will post pics if/when it happens again

[crosstiger]

I would try a different monitor, just to rule that out. If it doesn't work with a different monitor you should do a driver reinstall, just to rule that out too. If nothing helps I would write an RMA. In theory we should also test the psu but since there is no load on the gpu I would rule that out right away.

[Lukas32]

23 hours ago, crosstiger said:

I would try a different monitor, just to rule that out. If it doesn't work with a different monitor you should do a driver reinstall, just to rule that out too. If nothing helps I would write an RMA. In theory we should also test the psu but since there is no load on the gpu I would rule that out right away.

I have reinstalled the drivers and don't have the issue since then. If it happens again, ill try using my old monitor. What I did realize before reinstalling the drivers was the fact that everything goes to hell only after the monitor shuts itself down when the pc is not used.

[Tristerin]

1 minute ago, Lukas32 said:

I have reinstalled the drivers and don't have the issue since then. If it happens again, ill try using my old monitor. What I did realize before reinstalling the drivers was the fact that everything goes to hell only after the monitor shuts itself down when the pc is not used.

Bet its a faulty monitor

 

I spent far to much time on a GPU once over a faulty monitor lol.

[Lukas32]

On 10/17/2018 at 8:37 PM, Lukas32 said:

So around a year ago I got myself a Gigabyte 1050ti 4gb. It worked great, until today. I came home today around 6pm and when the screen turned on, I saw what I can only describe as if somebody threw water at a fresh painting. A portion of the screen was in different colours, another part was all blue and the rest was the desktop screen, but it was moved down to a corner and the icons looked unrecognizable. Turning the monitor off and on resulted in "No signal". Tried using HDMI cable instead of DP and got "No signal" again. Restarting the pc, and... it didn't wanna turn on. I took the gpu out, cleaned it of all dust and whatnot and put it back in its place. Pc turned on and everything worked, until after about 20min when i finished my dinner and saw the same screen i saw when I came home. Monitor would show no signal again, but the pc restarts now, and the monitor looks normal after a restart. Is the GPU done for or could something else be the issue?

I will post pics if/when it happens again

Update: It's happened again and I got a few pics(tho not very good ones cuz the glass piece on my phone's cam broke so its all dirty)

[xAcid9]

Look like monitor problem. Do you have spare monitor to test?

[Lukas32]

4 hours ago, xAcid9 said:

Look like monitor problem. Do you have spare monitor to test?

Yea but it only uses VGA, so I need to get a converter first