Initially, in the past year whenever I booted the machine from stand-by (sleep) mode, in 10% ~ 20% cases Windows BSOD occured with Video TDR Failure message and something about collecting and generating error report:īlah blah blah + some error sequence code, which turned out completely unrelated/unhelpful in my case

Malfunctioning Graphics Card with Vertical Stripe Lines and Image Artifacts – Windows OS

Restoring backup OS image or fresh OS re-install.

Testing card with another cable, computer and monitor (just in case).

Tip: use only official driver uninstall methods / avoid 3rd party “driver cleaner” tools! Graphics Cards Hardware Problems Verification

Fresh OS re-install (Windows, Linux, Mac OS).

Reverting or updating graphics card drivers.

Graphics Cards Software / Drivers Issues Fix

Active Component Failure (GPU / RAM / BIOS / Power Supply Control / Transistors).

Passive Component Failure (Capacitors / Inductors / Resistors / Diodes / Connectors).

Software / Drivers bugs & compatibility issues.

In this case card is probably beyond easy and economical repair but you lose nothing to try! (excluding trivial cases like malfunctioning cable, connector or faulty monitor).

In extreme cases: no image/signal output (completely black image).

Failure to cold boot Windows completely with freezing screens, constant reboots/failures etc.

Image Artifacts during BIOS / Windows or Live Linux boot.

Video TDR Failure BSOD when booting up from standby/sleep.

Graphics Card Failure – Classification & General Guide Graphics Card Failure Symptoms Dying GPU? Problems with Windows booting up? Problems with artifacts / distorted / garbage image display on your monitor? Welcome to the club of users who experienced problems with their graphics cards, myself included.

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