Weird artifact after bios has booted up. Bios unresponsive when accessed.

[TheBadassPeach]

Hi, I was in a game of Battlefield 4 and tabbed out to exit. The monitor switched off (no video signal outputted?) And I could hear a couple windows warning sounds. I rebooted the computer as it became unresponsive (wouldn't even shut down after pressing power button, so had to hard shutdown). Switched the computer back on and after passing bios (beeped once) weird artifacts showed on screen. https://gyazo.com/a73277f4df3e52650ca4a80ea7de088f The boot process wouldn't go any further once the artifacts showed, and after trying to reboot 3 times the artifacts remain. I then booted up to access the Bios in order to get into safe mode, but once in, I could not navigate through with my arrow keys and it is completely unresponsive. My computer specs are: I7 3770 stock speeds, EVGA Nvidia GTX 970 stock speeds (running at 80degrees in battlefield) - still under 5 year warranty, NW73C motherboard (dell xps 8500), 1TB WD blue harddrive, 250GB Samsung 850 evo ssd, Corsair cx600 psu.
I'm hoping this is just a corrupt graphics driver due to me doing a hard shutdown instead of a faulty gpu/motherboard. Any suggestions would be appreciated.

 

[Ryan Reynolds]

see if the computer boots up with the intel hd graphics. if it does than the driver might be corrupted or the gpu might be damaged. good luck!

 

[Dragos Manea]

Artefact are sign of mailfunctioning videocard (various reason. high temperature, failing card and so on). Monitor the temperatures during gaming, if everything is ok take in consideration to buy a new videocard (or RMA this one if you still have warranty).

 

[TheBadassPeach]

Update: sent the pc off to a repair specialist this morning. It booted up fine and showed no signs of damage or artifacts. It ran a memory scan and passed. I'm thinking this could be a temperature issue so will monitor temps, although gpu temps have never exceeded 80deg which is reasonably within the 970's operating temperature. Part of me also wants to think that it's the driver at fault because the problem occurred when tabbing out of the game, and not during the game; I've experienced no artifacting before and the gpu is at stock speeds too. Will make sure this is monitored and will update if necessary. Thanks for the suggestions guys.

 

[Dragos Manea]

Bios booting and bios screen has nothing to do with the driver, it is a seprate thing. If you get artefact in the bios be sure it is something wrong at hardware level.

 

[TheBadassPeach]

Bios booting and bios screen has nothing to do with the driver, it is a seprate thing. If you get artefact in the bios be sure it is something wrong at hardware level.

The artifacting was after the bios had posted, just before windows began loading. When in the bios there where no artifacts and I left it running for roughly 20 minutes.