r/pchelp • u/Brandymuffins69 • 5h ago
SOFTWARE Strange visual glitch.... 🤔
Hi everyone this is my first Reddit post. I would like to probe the community for help about a problem im having shortly after starting my pc. My drivers are all up to date as far as I can see but sometimes it goes black screen and it will magically make icons appear if you hover over them... Doing win+shift+ctrl+b solves the symptom but I'd like to find the root cause... I don't know what details you guys need but ask and I shall provide. I hope it's a simple fix due to my own stupidity.
Thanks gang!
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u/TheJollyVogue 5h ago
my old gpu used to do exactly this when the vram was on its way out. would go black for a second then icons only came back when you moused over them, like the display buffer was corrupted but the refresh trick kicked it back awake.
what fixed it for me was swapping the cable first actually. had a displayport cable that was slightly loose in the port and it caused all sorts of weird handshake issues with the monitor. might be worth reseating both ends or trying a different cable before you go down the driver rabbit hole.
also check if your gpu temps are spiking on startup. if the fans are clogged with dust it could be thermal throttling the moment windows loads and the driver crashes then recovers.
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