Please help, Grey screen of death

vvater

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Nov 14, 2013
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Hey everyone so last night I wanted to take a nap and left my computer in sleep mode for a few hours, I woke up and shut the PC down then went back to sleep. I woke up today and tried to boot it up, it booted fine I logged in and then the screen was grey for about 30 seconds until it showed my desktop background. My screen was flickering between my bare desktop and a desktop with shortcuts/taskbar/etc.

I restarted my PC and it boots up fine, shows the MSI logo, but won't show me my windows log in page. Its just a grey screen after boot.

Did my GPU overheat and die? What can I do?

UPDATE: took my gpu out to test and see if I could boot into safe mode or log into windows without it. Still getting a very screen without the gpu in my PC, can't access my windows log in page or boot into safe mode.