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Computer Unusable Video Card? [Urgent]
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My computer started doing this randomly while giving me graphic card failure alerts (Nvidia GeForce GTX 590). Now when i start my computer, it looks like this (the lines) starting up and it just keeps restarting until i get a troubleshoot screen or until i get to the login screen, but by the time that happens, my monitor goes into hibernation mode forever.
My computer is an Alienware Aurora R3, i got it about 5 years ago.
It is running windows 10 and a Nvidia GeForce GTX 590 graphics card. I am trying to confirm it and having trouble doing so without being able to use the thing.
I would like some confirmation that it is the video card, because then i will just replace it. If it is something more... then i don't know. Unfortunately i have a school project on there that i didn't get to backup before this happened... due sunday... and i will be gone until saturday.
thanks in advance guys.
EDIT: this could be unrelated, but about a week ago, i had an external harddrive fail. I also had a problem of my PC rapidly running out of space on its C Drive (400+GB free space to 0bytes) until i just restarted a few days ago.
EDIT 2: just left that troubleshooting screen. told it to exit and start windows normally. It restarted normally, without the lines. It is just a matter of time before it does it again though. im going to confirm my graphics card in a minute
EDIT 3: Corrected graphics card. It is a Nvidia GeForce GTX 590
screenshot: Dropbox - 2016-03-23 13.03.47.jpg
Last edited by billybag; 23 Mar 2016 at 16:29.