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Problem description: I was playing Guild Wars 2, a game I play every day and my screen went completely white, though I could still hear the music I was listening to. After a minute or so, my computer restarted and had massive artifacting all over the screen: Geforce experience won't launch, it just says I need to restart and try again. Nvidia control panel says there's no Nvidia card in my system. My monitor is definitely plugged in via DP cable to my GPU. I also have MSI afterburner and it's not recognizing a GPU at all either. Launching into BIOS however I have no artifacts:  Though if there's any GPU related options in the BIOS I can't find them. The fans on my GPU are still spinning up when I turn the system on. Attempted fixes: Tried to reseat the graphics card, and then I cleaned out all the dust I could from my computer and graphics card, thinking it may just be overheating. No change. I also tried to force Windows to reset its graphics drivers (Ctrl+Win+Shift+B) but I don't get any indication that's doing anything. I downloaded the most recent drivers from Nvidia and installed them; the install progressed through but didn't improve anything. Recent changes: None -- Operating system: Windows 10 System specs: Ryzen 7 3700X, Asus X570 motherboard, 16GB RAM, EVGA RTX 2080 (non-Super). I've had the card about 5 years and it's had a very mild overclock on it the whole time, but I've never had stability problems. Location: USA I have Googled and read the FAQ: Yes TLDR Everything I read seems to say artifacting on this level means the card is gone, but if there's anything else I can try I want to. The prospect of buying a new card isn't great to me, and I was really wanting to hang on to this card as long as I could. All the same, if nothing can be done, I need to know so I can hop over to the parts picking thread and figure out what GPU to get to replace it.
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Sep 10, 2023 02:41
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The card is probably dying but you could try booting into safe mode and see if you can run https://www.wagnardsoft.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=4671
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Sep 10, 2023 22:57
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So if Safe Mode looks the same and after using the uninstaller and rebooting looks the same...safe to say RIP to my 2080?
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Sep 11, 2023 00:05
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Humerus posted:So if Safe Mode looks the same and after using the uninstaller and rebooting looks the same...safe to say RIP to my 2080? It's most likely the failing part. What model PSU do you have and how old is it? If you want a more thorough check of your hardware you could run this to check your drive health: https://www.hdsentinel.com/hard_disk_sentinel_trial.php And memtest to check RAM health: https://www.memtest.org/
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Sep 11, 2023 05:28
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Zogo posted:It's most likely the failing part. I appreciate all the help. Memtest and drives are fine, as for the PSU it is older than I thought. I thought I got the PSU with my new mobo about 3 years ago but it actually just hit 7 years. It's an EVGA with a 7 year warranty and I know the idea is to replace once the warranty is done, so I'm looking into new PSUs as well I suppose.
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Sep 11, 2023 19:44
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Yeah, the GPU is still the best bet but with a PSU that old it's possible it's causing issues.
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Sep 11, 2023 22:27
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