Last night my screen went black for a second and when it came back I had a tool tray popup that said my graphics driver stopped working for some reason but recovered. This is the first time this has happened so I figured probably a windows glitch, I'll update my drivers later. About 15 minutes after that my whole screen changed, pixelated lines covered the entire screen like is was tearing, near impossible to read, then the monitor lost signal. I rebooted and even the bios screen had this same effect, lines going through it, all torn up. I got the whole, windows shut down unexpectedly message so chose to reboot in safe mode, same effect. Rebooted one more time and everything returned to normal and looked fine. I went ahead and updated my nividia driver to the latest, I think 337.something but I was already on 335.something so not terribly old. I think I updated a few months ago.
I am using a palit sonic gtx 460 that I bought almost four years ago (has a factory overclock). I'm just wondering if these are warning signs that my gpu might be going or if this is probably just a glitch. I wouldn't be shocked if a four year old gpu gave out but then again these things ought to last a lot longer if they aren't overheating and such right?
I am using a palit sonic gtx 460 that I bought almost four years ago (has a factory overclock). I'm just wondering if these are warning signs that my gpu might be going or if this is probably just a glitch. I wouldn't be shocked if a four year old gpu gave out but then again these things ought to last a lot longer if they aren't overheating and such right?
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