Hi, first post, and while I'd rather it be a contributing one rather than one asking for help, I've been lurking here for years finding answers to problems without needing to create a post about them.
So I build a new PC about a month ago and did a format and fresh install of windows 7 64 bit. Put in an EVGA GTX 660 with the most recent drivers and it's been running beautifully until yesterday. I haven't touched any drivers or hardware since it was built. I had been playing a game for a few hours and all of a sudden started getting red artifacts all over the screen and random freezing and loss of video signal. I restarted and everything seemed all right for a minute or two before it happened again and I noticed an error message pop up from the system tray saying something along the lines of the Nvidia video driver failing and something about the kernel but windows recovered it (sorry I don't have the exact wording, it flashed by pretty quickly). It then seemed normal for a few seconds before happening again. I turned off my computer and when I turned it back on the red artifacting occured as soon as my monitor got a signal from my GPU during POST. I haven't been able to check the GPU temp when the problem occurs, but I'm guessing it can't instantly overheat during POST after the PC has cooled down fully, right?
I replaced the new video card with the old one (ATI HD 5750), and the problem went away immediately, with the computer acting normally. I uninstalled the video drivers and every piece of Nvidia software and ran a driver cleaner, then put the GTX 660 back in and got the same artifacting during POST.
I'm assuming from all this that the GPU is faulty, but in other threads I've read about the error message I got, some said replacing the graphics card didn't solve their issue, so I wanted to be sure before having it replaced under warranty.
So I build a new PC about a month ago and did a format and fresh install of windows 7 64 bit. Put in an EVGA GTX 660 with the most recent drivers and it's been running beautifully until yesterday. I haven't touched any drivers or hardware since it was built. I had been playing a game for a few hours and all of a sudden started getting red artifacts all over the screen and random freezing and loss of video signal. I restarted and everything seemed all right for a minute or two before it happened again and I noticed an error message pop up from the system tray saying something along the lines of the Nvidia video driver failing and something about the kernel but windows recovered it (sorry I don't have the exact wording, it flashed by pretty quickly). It then seemed normal for a few seconds before happening again. I turned off my computer and when I turned it back on the red artifacting occured as soon as my monitor got a signal from my GPU during POST. I haven't been able to check the GPU temp when the problem occurs, but I'm guessing it can't instantly overheat during POST after the PC has cooled down fully, right?
I replaced the new video card with the old one (ATI HD 5750), and the problem went away immediately, with the computer acting normally. I uninstalled the video drivers and every piece of Nvidia software and ran a driver cleaner, then put the GTX 660 back in and got the same artifacting during POST.
I'm assuming from all this that the GPU is faulty, but in other threads I've read about the error message I got, some said replacing the graphics card didn't solve their issue, so I wanted to be sure before having it replaced under warranty.
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