yeahhh test with a second display output or a different port. if artifacts move with teh srceen content in screenshots, its rendering (GPU)... if they dont appear in a screenshot but do on the monitor, the cable, port or monitor itself is involved. worked for me anyway 馃し
i installed the NVIDIA GeForce Notebook Graphics Driver 301.42 update last night and this morning my living-room PC looked like this in 3D apps:
little colored blocks, flickering lines, sometimes a whole strip of the screen goes green for a moment. it doesnt crash, it just looks horrible 馃敟 my stomach dropped cuz artifacts usually mean dying hardware, right? but its supsicious that it started exactly after teh update. how do i tell which one it is without spending money? what am i doing wrong??
hmmmm quick q any GPU overclock or memory overclock active?
yeah so i had a mild memory overclock in a tuning tool that Id forgotten about on the living-room PC. idk what else to say tbh
your BIOS observation is a good clue. if artifacts appear only after Windows loads teh driver, but not in BIOS or in Safe Mode (which uses the Microsoft Basic Display Adapter), that leans towards driver/software. if they show up in BIOS too, think hardware.
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