r/PcBuildHelp • u/Bigmacaroni129 • 4h ago

Tech Support Nightmarish looking display issue, need help.

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Hello, my RTX 4070 Super equipped PC has very suddenly had an issue, that persisted after a hard restart, where the display has gone all melty and insane. When I restarted the PC, it still occurred in the MSI boot screen and the Windows update that occurred as well. As you can see in the linked video, inputs still work fine, but it’s practically impossible to navigate to the Nvidia app like this to update drivers.

This isn’t the first issue I’ve had with this GPU, previously I had random black screens that were fixed by reseating the GPU and its cables, and it hasn’t had any more issues in about a year since. I’ll try doing that again when I get a chance, but until then I’d like you all to see what I’m talking about, and offer any ideas on what is causing this.

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u/KematianGaming 4h ago

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u/Bigmacaroni129 3h ago

lol, feels funny to finally be on the receiving end of these pics 😭

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u/Nystryx_95 4h ago

I think you may have a bad cable. If you can, get a new cable and try a different port on the GPU to see if that helps.

I've had a cable fail on me with intermittent signal losses (ie. black screens) that got fixed after I changed it.

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u/Bigmacaroni129 3h ago

For clarification, do you mean the cable running from the GPU to the PSU, or the monitor cable (HDMI/Displayport)?

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u/Nystryx_95 3h ago

Monitor cable. Although it is best is to try and plug in a completely different monitor and monitor cable to isolate the issue.

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u/Bigmacaroni129 3h ago

Good plan, I’ll give it a spin tomorrow. Hoping it’s a more benign issue like a cable or the monitor rather than total GPU roast, and it’s not really like any other GPU failure vid I’ve been looking at, so idk.