Is it my GPU or RAM?

What about it MyBB want to sponsor an old fart an m.2 LOL :ROFL: :ROFL: :ROFL:
Nah just joking when the stores open in the new year I will have more answers for us. :thumbsup:
 
Have you ruled out the cables and monitor ports?

Also why are people not installing the nvidia app, it makes updating the drivers easy at least. What bloat? You’re like fat people who think a Diet Coke with their box of slap chips is going to help.
 
It’s not your m.2. Almost certain it’s the cable or monitor.
 
PaulGherkin said:
It's likely the motherboard, since he gave enough info to indicate this. M.2 drive failure would come up in Windows Event logs
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He plugged the drive into another PC with a different motherboard and still got the artefacts, if I follow correctly. The only constants are the m.2 and the monitors and cables there?
 
Astarion said:
But it makes updating the drivers so easy?

Okay, let’s wait for him to clarify for us.
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OK, there might be something there. I am a bit vaak today, let's blame all the tjop en dop I've consumed.

M2. is on the PCI Express root complex, so if that thing is not playing by the rules, yes I can see it screwing up the graphics display by introducing errors, not on the PCIe x16 lanes, but probably pissing off the root complex (controller) causing it to glitch data transfers to the GPU.
Dunno, isn't that stuff supposed to be protected by CRC-16 checksums?

But then again I've seen some weird shyte in my time... electronics can go bad in funny ways.
 
Astarion said:
Have you ruled out the cables and monitor ports?

Also why are people not installing the nvidia app, it makes updating the drivers easy at least. What bloat? You’re like fat people who think a Diet Coke with their box of slap chips is going to help.
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The nVidia app is absolute crap. Badly optimised and uses up more resources than it should.

The only thing it does is auto-updates on your GPU Driver. It also passes on a lot of Telemetry such as system info / metadata / files etc to nVidia and such.
 
Astarion said:
Have you ruled out the cables and monitor ports?

Also why are people not installing the nvidia app, it makes updating the drivers easy at least. What bloat? You’re like fat people who think a Diet Coke with their box of slap chips is going to help.
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Yes because when I tested them on 1080ti with its original PC running it, I had no trouble with any of the cables or monitors.
 
Perhaps try put in a second hard drive (ideally an old one you already have or can borrow), and reinstall the OS, just to see if this fixes your issue. It does sound like more of a software issue.
 
Just ghost the m2 hard drive onto another drive and try that <-- last resort

What driver are you using on the 3060ti vs 1080ti?

Try running the 1080ti + m2 with one screen only. Then try the other one screen only.

Go to your home TV, you most likely have an HDMI cable from your DSTV or audio system, try that cable.

Keep the resolutions of the 1080ti test rig the same as the 3060ti test rig.
 
Sounds like you checked everything besides reinstalling Windows. If you change both the drive and OS you'll never know what the real issue was.
 
Jackal46 said:
Yes because when I tested them on 1080ti with its original PC running it, I had no trouble with any of the cables or monitors.
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How many m.2 slots and drives do you have? Some boards have slots that share lanes with other slots.
 
Have you plugged the monitor into a different PC
 
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I think I spotted your issue. You bought a wooden graphics card. They're not really designed to output graphics in a modern gaming machine.
 

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This has been happening to me on various, different, Windows-based systems for years. Multi-monitor setups only.

I think this is more of a Windows O/S issue than anything to do with hardware. Mine isn't an issue I can recreate as the OP can, though. It happens at random and just goes away as I use the machines.
 
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