Question I think my GPU is going bad ?

[AvocadoIceCream]

I've been having issues with my pc recently. Out of nowhere my pc would just lose display. sometimes it would go to all white and my other monitor all yellow then it just goes to black, sometimes it would jsut turn off immediately. I tried using other hdmi cables, unplugging and plugging my monitor, using a different monitor, it doesnt work. I noticed even when I have no display the audio was still running and I can just alt f4 and turn off my pc. I dont think its a temp issue cause it happens at any given moment. Sometimes im just watching youtube and this would happen, but then i dont use it for a day or two and it turns on and i can play for hours then a few days later it happens again.

I tried using my monitor audio jack to connect my earphones then this happened and i lost audio, but there wasnt any crash noises as it happened, cause sometimes when you get BSOD the audio will also crash. I also noticed that when this issue happens and i try to reboot my pc it sometimes turns on but less than 5 minutes later it will crash again, and sometimes it wont even get pass the bios loading thing it will just crash.

There's also another issue as well where sometimes on the task manager it would say i have only 8gb, my ram stick would be recognized as 16GB but on Hardware Reserved it says 8GB, so i just reinstall the ram stick and it would be fine. Maybe this is contributing to the issue i dont know. But i guess my main confusion is what is causing my issue is it a gpu issue, maybe my gpu is going bad? or is it a ram thing?

 

[steveb1976]

this sounds like it could be 1 of 3 things. cpu failing.,ram failing,., or gpu.. . . run tests to check "cpu" , gpu (graphics and gpu ram), ddr4 ram check.

it maybe just a simple solution like "reseating the cpu".. if your not sure there are computer stores that should offer to look at it for free and diagnose the issue

 

[skitz9417]

yeah i would run couple of tests stress test on cpu gpu and ram