About 30 minutes ago I was playing a windowed pc game and talking on ventrilo. I saw a bunch of sideways red lines go across my screen (like spraypaint from MSpaint looking) and I couldn't move anything... pc locked up. I restarted and there was red lines on boot before windows, and blocky letters. I get to the "run windows repair" or "start windows normally"
I try repair and it says there's no issues (all the while the red lines are there) so I try to open windows... then a BSOD comes up and it creates a dump and tells me to contact a tech support person.
So I try repair and it just goes right back to the screen - "run windows repair" or "start windows normally" I this time try running it normally and it reboots the PC.
When I turn on the pc right now theres red dots all around the screen (Sometimes there's none and I can get to "open windows normally" but it just reboots). In BIOS when the red dots and lines are all around I have flickering/half missing letters.
Does this sound like the death of a graphics card, or the death of a motherboard? Loading fail-safe options in the bios / optimized didn't seem to change anything. I've had the graphics card for nearly 3 years, motherboard for about 8 months.
I try repair and it says there's no issues (all the while the red lines are there) so I try to open windows... then a BSOD comes up and it creates a dump and tells me to contact a tech support person.
So I try repair and it just goes right back to the screen - "run windows repair" or "start windows normally" I this time try running it normally and it reboots the PC.
When I turn on the pc right now theres red dots all around the screen (Sometimes there's none and I can get to "open windows normally" but it just reboots). In BIOS when the red dots and lines are all around I have flickering/half missing letters.
Does this sound like the death of a graphics card, or the death of a motherboard? Loading fail-safe options in the bios / optimized didn't seem to change anything. I've had the graphics card for nearly 3 years, motherboard for about 8 months.
