Windows 10: New graphics card is apparently dying.

Now this is a surprise. Looks like this GeForce GT 730 really was defective after all.

I was playing a little with Mac OS X, then due to chipset compatibilty problems i decided to go back to Windows 10.

It was finishing installing, so i left the PC alone...

When i came back, turned on the monitor, it looked a broken TV or something: Showing all sorts of colorful artifacts, blinking...

My advice to everyone here: Avoid NVidia cards if you can.

Now i'm back to the old but trusty AMD Radeon 6450!

Edit: I was wrong. The colored artifacts were temporary, and are now gone.

Edit 2: I found that it is actually the monitor, it shows visual glitches even if disconnected from the PC.

:)

 

Windows 10 Blue screen

I was getting BSOD before I changed my graphics card could it be my old card was dying and needed replacing? Then when I got the new one the graphics card drivers were buggy or the old graphics cards drivers were trying to attach to the new one.

 

Windows 10 stuck in boot loop after crash - still diagnosing after 4 days

We ended up finding the issue was with the graphics card finally dying off. Whenever the drivers auto-installed, the boot loop would occur. Launching into Safe mode was possible, though, and I used a tool called DDU (Display Driver Uninstaller) to remove
it, leaving only the 'Microsoft Basic Adapter' driver. After some more testing to ensure, it turned out to definitely be the card (A GTX 560, going on 6 years old at this point) and we ordered a new one. Works like a charm and no issues since.

 

Avoid nVidia cards?

Astonishingly practical advice. (No, I'm not an nVidia fan. I admit that my most recent Radeon was a 7970. Huge, power hungry, but fast. My favorite 3D graphics processors were made by 3dfx. The Voodoo 1 card did great things with the original DOS based Tomb Raider game.)

 

Why avoid Nvidia cards? They are fine! I have a GT 730 and a GTX 750 Ti and they run flawlessly. What brand is it?

 

As i said, i was wrong about this. It was not an issue with the card, but with the monitor and/or It's cable.


But when i first encountered the issue, i thought the GPU was the culprit.

I have put the 730 back into the PC and It's working fine.

 

It's from Zogis, model ZOGT730-2GD3H12.

I didn't mean to sound like an nvidia hater or something like that.

 

Oh whoops, I did not read that part *Doh That's great that it is working fine! *Smile

 

I didn't think you were a Nvidia hater. *Smile

 

You could have removed the offending sentence when you edited the post. Or would you have regarded removing it as unethical?