My PC started glitching out like this and I don’t know how to find the cause.

Columns of red lines dominate the screen, and certain characters aren’t being displayed during startup. This happens with every operating system and every monitor. I can only get into the OS in recovery mode.

Did my CPU get fried? My motherboard? GPU? Corrupted BIOS? How can I find out?

https://youtu.be/0Yi-5puU7B8

  • Loom In Essence@lemmy.worldOP
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    1 year ago

    Wow I had to look up the oven fix, that’s crazy that it sometimes works! I’m not going to try it though. I might get a new GPU.

    Thanks for the answer!

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      1 year ago

      You have nothing to lose at this point, so you can go for it. Just run a cleaning cycle on the oven afterwards to get rid of the nasty fumes.

      My R9 280X died again about a year after I did this, but I got through the mining craze of 2018 with it.