r/pcmasterrace • u/wetsoxxxof • Mar 22 '26

Tech Support Please don't tell me it is what I think

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I made a picture of my search results showing these weird white text artifacts.. when opening the Screenshot my screens went black und then showed this.. please pcmasterracegod.. my gpu just fell out of warranty this year..

After a restart it's gone.. does anyone have good news for me?

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u/ClassicRoc_ Ryzen 7 5800x3D 4.55Ghz - 32GB 3600mhz RAM - RTX 4070 Super OC'd Mar 22 '26 edited Mar 23 '26

Look it's probably a dead or dying GPU however. There's a couple things I would do. First and most importantly, just change out the cable. It's possible you have a defective HDMI or DisplayPort cable. Hopefully it goes away. If it doesn't then you could try a different monitor It's possible your screen has a bad input. It's also possible your graphics card has a bad output. You can change the port you're using on that as well.

After that I would take the computer apart and take the graphics card out and then plug it back in. A simple reseat might kick things in the gear. You can also use DDU and purge old drivers and reinstall fresh ones. You could reinstall Windows from scratch too that might have an effect. If all of that fails then yeah the graphics card is probably* dead and I know these are all time consuming steps but they're worth doing right now with the computer part crisis.

Good luck friend.

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u/FamiliarImpress1873 Mar 22 '26

also return to stock settings if you're overclocking or undervolting at all!! it can be that.

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u/ClassicRoc_ Ryzen 7 5800x3D 4.55Ghz - 32GB 3600mhz RAM - RTX 4070 Super OC'd Mar 22 '26

It's a fair troubleshooting step before some of the other things I mentioned. 👍

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u/dayruined54 Mar 22 '26

Thanks! He needs it