Is my gpu starting to fail?

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icu222much

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I have a R9 280x. When I am booting Windows I would see the Windows logo. Sometimes I also see a row of colours at the bottom of my primary monitor (see attached photo). In my photo, I see a row of red colour. Last week I saw a row of blue colour. I've only seen this issue twice, and I turn on my computer everyday.

Is this indicating that my gpu is starting to fail? Is there anything I can do to check my video card's health?

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icu222much said:
I have a R9 280x. When I am booting Windows I would see the Windows logo. Sometimes I also see a row of colours at the bottom of my primary monitor (see attached photo). In my photo, I see a row of red colour. Last week I saw a row of blue colour. I've only seen this issue twice, and I turn on my computer everyday.

Is this indicating that my gpu is starting to fail? Is there anything I can do to check my video card's health?

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when's the last time you updated the bios on your motherboard? (the idea being it could be a quirk with the UEFI, which may have been fixed in a more recent bios).
 
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Have you cleaned dust from the gfx cards heatsink and fan?
 
could be cable. i used to get that all the time on my old tv and cable but it seems to have stopped since upgrading the cable after getting a new 4k tv.
 
Things I have tried:
  • I ran furmark for 20 minutes without any issues. My temps reached 68*, with gpu load at 100%, and fan load at 67%.
  • I just swapped monitors and cables in hopes to isolate the problem.
  • I unfortunately don't have another gpu/mobo I can swap.
  • I only saw the graphical glitch when Windows was loading.
  • I haven't updated the my mobo bios since I built the computer in 2012.
  • I have cleaned out the dust out of my interior of my computer with Dust-Off.
I haven't seen this issue again since I last posted this thread.

Any other trouble shooting ideas?
 
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I like to put baby powder on my brackets to keep them smooth and clean. It may not help.
 
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