Question GTX 1060M keeps flashing ?

[_NightFury_]

Hi All,
I have this problem with GTX 1060M on HP Omen laptop.

When I disable nvidia GTX 1060 from device manager the laptop works fine, but as soon as GPU is enabled, laptop freezes and continuously goes blank back and forth. The laptop is just 3 years old and the issue started when I was playing “Horizon Zero Dawn” and suddenly it crashed while I was on chrome browser for some time.

I tried:

• DDU,
• complete reinstall win 10,
• rollback bios firmware
• completely disassembled laptop and cleaned CPU/GPU thermal paste but no luck.

One thing I noticed is when you try to switch tabs GPU usage is instantly spiked to 100% but if you try to watch some 4k/8k hdr 60fps videos on YouTube it works fine until you don’t switch tabs or hover mouse around, there GPU and clocks everything works as expected.
So I wonder why the laptop works perfectly fine even when playing 8k @60FPS videos(youtube), watch netflix, prime etc. and uses full potential of GTX1060 until I try to switch or hover around.

Note: Laptop doesn't have intel HD graphics, it only has GTX 1060 display driver with G-Sync 144 Hz refresh rate. I have also shared the video link below to showcase the issue, see there as soon as gpu is enabled video plays at 60fps and fully uses gpu power. But after hovering around it starts to flash. Is this a GPU failure or some short circuit ?
Please reply what can be done to fix this, the most annoying part is I didn't found a single article or video on this issue over the whole internet.

 

[Fix_that_Glitch]

You can try removing Nvidia drivers with ddu app and then install/reinstall newest drivers. In Nvidia control panel make sure your gpu is selected to use for video applications, and not set to auto or let windows choose settings.. In chrome settings, check to see if it is set for hardware acceleration.

 

[_NightFury_]

You can try removing Nvidia drivers with ddu app and then install/reinstall newest drivers. In Nvidia control panel make sure your gpu is selected to use for video applications, and not set to auto or let windows choose settings.. In chrome settings, check to see if it is set for hardware acceleration.

As I said tried ddu and manually installed manufacturer provided nvidia driver

 

[Fix_that_Glitch]

As I said tried ddu and manually installed manufacturer provided nvidia driver

ok so sorry, did you try the other things?