Why is my GPU dying?

Azooth

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Oct 3, 2015
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Hello,

I'm sorry this has probably been asked before but I couldn't find my exact situation.

I have a GTX970 (non-overclocked) connected to four monitors, no surround, just 4 independent monitors.

I noticed one of my monitors faintly flickering lines for a couple weeks now, then recently nuked my windows install and reinstalled. On reinstall I noticed the faint lines more then one screen started flickering on and off and displaying grey dots like a tv screen without signal, now it's only displaying two of my monitors perfectly fine but showing the other plugged in ones in display settings.

I reinstalled the drivers and...still doing it, fortunately my house mate had a 970 as well and I put that in my system to test it...worked fine! So my gpu is on it's way out (unless anyone else wants to suggest otherwise he says hopefully), I was wondering if there was anything that would cause a failure like this so when I replace the card I don't have to replace it again!

Thanks,
JJ
 
good troubleshooting. the problem has to be the card or the ports, the monitors and cables worked with the second card so they're good.
is it under warranty?

When I saw your posts title, the first thought through my head was "lead poisoning" haha