Question Is there a possibility of GPU damage with fusebox power trip ?

[illusorynametag]

What's the possibility of power surge damage when power tripped at fusebox?

I was plugging in other appliances in a different room which caused a trip and a loss of power to the whole house, my PC was running in the office at the time. After flicking the switch in the box I booted the PC, hoping it would be fine and instead of booting straight in as normal it went to a Finishing windows setup screen as you see when finishing a new W installation.

Once I got into Windows after clicking through next a few times everything was as it should be, I've seen nothing missing and have run sfc, chkdsk and so on. However I have since been noticing jagged low-res rendering of shadows and sometimes fauilty pixellated outlines around shapes in some games including Modern Warfare that I'm convinced weren't there before. I have ran DDU in s mode and reinstalled my graphics drivers, with no success.

It's possible that general performance has degraded but aside from the visual artifacts differences are marginal.

Obviously there's the chance that these problems were there before and I'm just noticing them more with hypervigilance but I don't think this is the case so just hoping someone can fill me in on the likelihood of my hypothesis, or have any more concrete ways of testing it out.

Thanks

 

[Lutfij]

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[DaleH]

What's the possibility of power surge damage when power tripped at fusebox?

I was plugging in other appliances in a different room which caused a trip and a loss of power to the whole house, my PC was running in the office at the time. After flicking the switch in the box I booted the PC, hoping it would be fine and instead of booting straight in as normal it went to a Finishing windows setup screen as you see when finishing a new W installation.

Once I got into Windows after clicking through next a few times everything was as it should be, I've seen nothing missing and have run sfc, chkdsk and so on. However I have since been noticing jagged low-res rendering of shadows and sometimes fauilty pixellated outlines around shapes in some games including Modern Warfare that I'm convinced weren't there before. I have ran DDU in s mode and reinstalled my graphics drivers, with no success.

It's possible that general performance has degraded but aside from the visual artifacts differences are marginal.

Obviously there's the chance that these problems were there before and I'm just noticing them more with hypervigilance but I don't think this is the case so just hoping someone can fill me in on the likelihood of my hypothesis, or have any more concrete ways of testing it out.

Thanks

You might run scanfix as described here: https://www.guidingtech.com/how-to-use-sfc-scan-in-windows/

 

[CountMike]

Tripping fuse because of some other appliance is same as power shutoff, shouldn't cause power surge.
As for that Windows behavior, it was most probably just finishing some pending update.

 

[illusorynametag]

Thanks for your replies.

I have been noticing unsteady framerates and less-steady metrics such as voltage on my gpu, and I did have a power crash when running a variable GPU stress test in OCCT.

Visual artifacting seems to be presenting as aliasing and shadows being low-res/pixellated or behaving incorrectly. I understand that people seem to think it unlikely that this incident would have caused damage, but do these sorts of symptoms track with voltage related damage?

Edit: Thanks for replying and I appreciate your time 🙏