Question Is my GPU dying ?

[Mihai Bosie]

Once I was watching youtube after I played a game for 2 hours, when suddenly some lines of different colors appeared on the left side of the screen for 1 second, then on the right side and then all over then I closed my laptop and then it never happened. Also, every time I open the laptop at the bottom of the screen, different artifacts appear for 1 second. Sometimes when I exit a video on youtube that was fullscreen the screen gets jammed on the last frame of the video while I can close google or pause the video and the only solution is to shut down my laptop. I have to mention that I have problems with my laptop hinges. I have NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950M 4GB VRAM

Intel Core I7 6700HQ

Samsung SSD 860 Evo

8GB RAM

I don't really know my motherboard . I haven't changed my thermal paste since 2017 (when i bought my laptop) and i think it's dusty in there . Is my GPU dying or i need to change the thermal paste and clean my laptop?

 

[Lutfij]

What is the make and model of your laptop? An SKU would help us two fold. What were you taxing the laptop with and at what in-game detail levels were you taxing the laptop with? Which drivers are you running on the laptop?

 

[Mihai Bosie]

What is the make and model of your laptop? An SKU would help us two fold. What were you taxing the laptop with and at what in-game detail levels were you taxing the laptop with? Which drivers are you running on the laptop?

My laptop is a Lenovo ideapad 700 and i don't really know what's an SKU and where i can find it .

 

[Mihai Bosie]

I think it's getting worse, I've just had a bluescreen while watching youtube .
Edit:I've just updated my GPU driver and i hope everything will be ok, tomorrow i'll go to change my thermal paste and to clean it