Graphics problem

[Rands]

I know its a long shot without actually taking my pc to a shop.

This morning my pc booted up to displaying the desktop & playing the start 'music', then the graphics got corrupted & it re-booted. Repeat cycle.

Booted in safe mode & this (after moving some windows around) :

After rebooting , it seems to have started ok in normal mode, but im concerned that this will be a problem soon again.

Is this the graphics card on its way out?

 

[mister]

Mine did this last month... a couple days later and the graphics card gave up the ghost completely.

 

[Earther]

If it's a card it could be capacitors on the card thats failing, or it could be artifacts due to overheating on the gpu. If it's onboard gpu chances are good you will have to replace motherboard. Notebook? Desktop?

 

[Rands]

desktop, with some nVidia dedicated card (64mb i think), quite old now so i wouldnt be surprised if it did go.

What has me confused is that after I re-started from safe mode, all was normal.

Will keep an eye on it

 

[Earther]

If it does happen again take the heatsink of the card, clean the old heatsink compound with some alcohol and reapply with new compound.

 

[Rands]

shots for the help

 

[Evo1ve]

I had once this problem with bad RAM.
Maby to reset the RAM or use MemTest86+ ?

Caps blown on the motherboard or Power Supply most likely as well.

 

[Rands]

this is going from bad to worse!

Will check the ram hope its not the frikkin mb or power supply!

cme across this :

If your screen is doing all sorts of crazy stuff like not being drawn correctly or having tons of colored lines going through it, etc, it could all be caused by bad memory.

here