Horizontal red lines in the screen (Nvidia GTX 770)

John_515

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Today, while I was surfing the web, my computer crashed: the screen was filled with the same green color (I think it was the same color of my wallpaper) and it frozen.

I restarted my computer, but, after it turned on, a bunch of horizontal red lines appeared in the screen and the resolution was not the usual one:

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The lines also appeared right after turning on the computer and even when I inserted an Ubuntu live CD, so I think it is not a Windows or drivers problem.

To solve it I first tried to change the screen to another one, and I also tried to use the DVI output of my graphic card instead of the HDMI one, but the red lines remained.

After that I extracted my graphics card, I cleaned it and inserted it again. I did the same with the RAM and all the different wires of the computer, but the red lines remained.


Do you think the graphic card is broken?

This is my setup:

Windows 8.1
Nvidia GTX 770 Gigabyte 4GB
Intel Core i7-4770
2 x G.Skill - Trident 8Gb RAM
Asrock H87 pro4 Motherbase
Nox Urano VX 750 Power supply
Hyper 12 EVO Cpu cooler
Samsung 840EVO 120Gb SSD
Western Digital 2Tb HD


 
Solution
Yes it's pretty much 100% that the video card is bad. Maybe an issue with the power supply though, that's an odd brand. Test the card in another system with a good power supply or test another power supply in your system and see if that fixes things.
Yes it's pretty much 100% that the video card is bad. Maybe an issue with the power supply though, that's an odd brand. Test the card in another system with a good power supply or test another power supply in your system and see if that fixes things.
 
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John_515

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That is essentially what I thought. Anyways it is strange because taking a look at the installed programs I saw that yesterday the Nvidia driver 372.90 was installed. As you can see here: https://www.reddit.com/r/nvidia/comments/53t9d6/driver_37290_faqdiscussion_thread/ it is a really buggy driver version. I thought that maybe the driver could have damaged the GPU, but it is really rare.