Graphics card causing artifacts

[Hamid_SA]

So I have had this ZOTAC GT 240 that I used to play CSGO and DOTA 2 on and yesterday when I turned on my PC , the screen showed artifacts right from the boot up .The windows loaded fine and I had no other problem except the artifacts.The night before, It was working perfectly fine. I tried plugging it out and plugging it in again and this time there was a blank screen. The GPU is not overheating. I tried changing RAMs , they were fine. I switched to integrated graphics and the computer works fine now. I've had the blank screen problems a couple times before the artifacts happened, but replugging the PSU to the mobo solved it. So could the problem be with the PSU ? Or is the GPU really dead ?

My PC specs:
HP dc7800 Convertible Minitower
4 x 1 gigs of RAM
C2D E6550 2.33 Ghz
ZOTAC GT 240 1GB DDR3
HP 365W PSU
Win 8.1 64-bit

 

[sizzling]

Sounds like a dying gpu