Question My 3060 GPU might be faulty but I need advice from people smarter than me to confirm ?

[RafeM]

My system has been going for roughly 3 years now with only minor hitches along the way, but for the last few weeks I've been getting random crashes, freezes, 1 distorted bluescreen(?) and a black screen that rebooted by itself.

I used DDU to clean out and reinstall nvidia drivers, no luck.

I gave the system a good clean out incase it was somehow temps, no luck.

I've taken it out and have been running integrated graphics for most the day and nothing has happened, but it's hard to tell yet because the freezes and crashes are comepletely random, idle or heavy load, a day apart or minutes apart.

I've also drained the power with the gpu in and out of the system.

Another strange thing is that during one of the freezes, I checked the display signal cables (2 HDMI, 1 DP) and both the hdmi's would both still show the frozen display after I plugged them back in, but the dp wouldn't.

 

[helpstar]

which bsod was it ?
check the windows event viewer to have a look for error in the system
did you run dism commands like image healthcheck and scan yet?
which psu are you using?
reset the bios by jumper
update the bios of the motherboard
update intel management firmware in windows if using a intel cpu
how hot is your cpu and gpu getting?
run memory tests
run hard drive tests