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Purple lines appeared on screen and monitor turned off

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joshc

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So I've had the system in my rig for about 2.5 months and had no problems. A week ago I left my PC for a bit and when I came back my monitor had gone into energy save mode and I couldn't get it to wake back up without a reboot.

Today while I was sitting and typing on my computer all of a sudden a screenfull of thin purple vertical lines filled the screen and my monitor went into energy save mode. Again I was unable to wake my PC back up so had to reboot. I'm a bit concerned now. Any idea why this would happen? I fear something with the video card but not sure what.

Specs are in my sig.

Thanks.
 
video card is overheating it seems like. see if it is heat damaged. rma if it is and never go into powersave. it dosent work well for my pc either.
 
Thanks for the reply. The interesting thing is that I just checked using nVidia ntune and it says GPU temperature: 44 C and ambient temp: 35 C. Also, the core slowdown threshold is 127 C. My CPU temp is 31 and sys temp is 34 as reported by core center.

I'll check my video card for heat damage though.

Thanks!
 
the reason i recommend to not use powersave is becasue on my pc, the same thing hapens. my GPU will still be on but the fan was disabled. lucky for me i oc and so i have an external 80mm fan blowing on it also so no damage was done, but it seems like your core may have reached a critical temp.
 
Yeah but the 2nd time I was typing away and I watched the purple lines crawl up and fill the screen. In other words this didn't happen when my monitor tried to go into power save mode. Anyways, I turned power save off but since I've only had this problem occur twice so far, seemingly randomly, I don't know how I can recreate it. I hope it was some sort of transient failure.
 
i had a similar situation in one of my rigs.....the fan on the video cards' heatsink died, so, the card was overheating...🙂
 
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