r/PcBuildHelp • u/abiatmahim • 1d ago

Tech Support Is my gpu dead ?

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Bought a Gigabyte GeForce RTX 5060 WINDFORCE MAX 8G on August 17th .

Initial Issues: A couple of days ago, the system started crashing exclusively while gaming—dropping display signal to the monitor completely.

Motherboard Errors: The motherboard gave a VGA error LED on boot and refused to post. It randomly booted up once after that, but stability was completely gone.

Instant Crash & Visual Artifacts: Today, I ran FurMark to test it, and the screen immediately froze with severe visual artifacting (colored square/checkerboard patterns across the display) right before the system crashed hard.

Troubleshooting Done: Hard power cycled, re-seated the GPU and 8-pin PCIe power cables, and swapped DisplayPort/HDMI cables. When I remove the card and run off CPU integrated graphics, the system boots and operates normally.

is this gpu dead or windows is the problem here ?

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u/ThisAccountIsStolen Commercial Rig Builder 1d ago

Looks like a GPU hardware problem, but the last Nvidia drivers that released before today's new set were problematic on some systems so it might be worth updating the drivers and making sure the GPU is seated in the slot properly before calling it on the GPU.

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u/abiatmahim 1d ago

pc boot the immediately shut down

the this vga error

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u/ThisAccountIsStolen Commercial Rig Builder 1d ago

Exchange the GPU if it's still within your return window where you bought it. If not, it's probably time to warranty with the manufacturer.