Question Laptop facing random artifacty crashes

[mohitakundi]

I have been using this laptop since 2019 and never had any issues apart from the panel developing lines which is probably the lcd going bad.

But for the past 2 days, I've been encountering this very odd issue. The screen would randomly turn into artifact hell with no response. First time I thought the gpu was toast, but after force shutting it down and immediately restarting, it boots up fine. Heck I immediately ran a blender render for a few minutes, a couple of games and everything runs ok, but it'll randomly crash out during the most mundane task like browsing the web.

I've encountered this 3 times now over the last 2 days.
1st time after waking it from sleep, 2nd while browsing files, 3rd while web browsing.

Spec: MSI GL63 9SD. i5 9300H, GTX 1660ti, 16GB RAM, 512+256GB SSDs, 1TB HDD. Windows 10.
Nvidia Studio driver 527.56 (yes, it's a bit dated, but have been using this for a while now. I need it to lower the power limits during very long renders)

Any clue as to what's going on?