As much as I want my video card to last forever, I’ve learned it the hard way that one day it might give up on me. Yes, folks! Your graphics card can go bad.
And believe me or not, your GPU is smart enough to give you some earlier signs of failure like glitches and abnormal noises.
So, before you rage over yourcomponent failing, you may take safety measures and prepare another card just in case.
My ignorance and lack of knowledge came to bite me on my toes. So we want you to avoid the same mistake and prepare yourself for the worst.
What Happens if a Graphics Card Fails?
There are tons of reasons for a graphics card failure. In most cases, the graphics card simply doesn’t give out video output. You will be greeted with a black screen.
There arecases where thesystem goes into a boot loop. The boot loop goes on until you force the system into safe mode.
A system might also getBSOD (Blue screen of death). The BSOD is the most helpful error among all. Windows operating system always spits out error code making it easier to find out the cause of the problem.
The BSODs are caused usually at the startup or when the graphics card starts running graphics-intensive work.
Most of the symptoms of a failing graphics card are easy to find. You have to be very observative to find out the symptoms. Some symptoms are easy to find, and some need very immaculate observation.
But in general, here are the symptoms that you have to look up:
Artificacting is the easiest symptom to spot out. It is kind of like screen glitches and fails to render texture in games. You might also see some pixelation on your display clearing showing signs of failure of the graphics card.
It can be solved byrestarting the system. But we advise you to thoroughly look at the graphics cards.
Glitches areusually similar to artifacts. Sometimes you are playing a game you suddenly see weird colors or frame tearing. These weird colors andframe tearingwhile gaming or watching videos are considered glitches.
These glitches stay for some seconds only and you might even miss them. Or go away when you move your mouse. Please don’t take the glitch symptoms lightly.
