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Potential GPU problems
Once again i have recently been experiencing some issues possibly with my GPU or some other part. Despite my system has been completely stable the past 2 years, I've experienced two instances of a complete system freeze the past couple days. The first one was while gaming and what happened was the system instantly froze and the screen became a checkerboard of pink/green static squares. The second time however i was just watching a youtube video when it froze, but this time there were no unusual screen artifacts, just the screen as it was.
At first i thought after the second time that there's a possibility that i might have an issue with the RAM instead, but after running 5 instances of Memtest at 2.1gb ram each with each one hitting about 350% passes without any errors, i feel like i'm back to square 1 on the possibility of it being a GPU issue.
Is it possible that streaming videos can cause the gpu to lock up if hardware acceleration is enabled?
Or another question might be if a GPU driver can spontaneously go bad and need a reinstall.
Last edited by BobLeSaget; 09 Jul 2019 at 17:51.