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geforce gtx 980m/gtx 970m graphics driver update and now my screen looks like a broken mosaic

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  1. Lars Lindqvist
    @llindqvist-2j8

    I installed teh NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M/GTX 970M Graphics Driver 344.24 update last night and this morning my gaming desktop looked like this on the desktop:

    gpu artifacts

    Little colored blocks, flickering lines, sometimes a whole strip of the screen goes green for a moment. It doesnt crash, it just looks horrible. My stomach dropped because artifacts usually mean dying hardware, right? But its suspicious that it started exactly after the update. How do I tell which one it is without spending money? thx in advance!!

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  2. Kai Stone
    @kai.stone

    hmmmm quick q do they appear in screenshots, or only on the monitor?

    thinking

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  3. Lars Lindqvist
    @llindqvist-2j8
    in reply to @kai.stone

    ahh right booted into Safe Mode and the screen was clean... back to normal mode, artifacts on the desktop again. idk what else to say tbh

    cry

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  4. Caleb Torres
    @caleb.torres
    in reply to @llindqvist-2j8

    Reset any overclock or undervolt, especially memory clock. Artifacts that look like small colored blocks are often VRAM instability, and a driver update can change memory behavior enough to tip a marginal OC over.

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  5. Kai Stone
    @kai.stone
    in reply to @caleb.torres

    oh ive been there lol if artifacts persist after DDU and an older driver, and even appear in BIOS, back up ur data and look into warranty... dont keep stress testing a card that shows artifacts in BIOS. fingers crossed 🤞

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  6. Lars Lindqvist
    @llindqvist-2j8
    in reply to @kai.stone

    @kai.stone WOWWW sadly it was hardware. Artifacts shwoed in BIOS after a few days. Warranty claim is in. Thanks for helping me figrue it out fast.

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