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Few months old PC rig having problem with blackouts and idle artifacting

jne02

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OS: Just upgraded from Win 10 to Win 11 (Clean install)

Case: Lian Li LANCOOL II Mesh C Performance
Motherboard: ASUS PRIME Z690-P WIFI D4
PSU: Seasonic 850W FOCUS GX-850 Gold
RAM: 2x16GB Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200mhz
GPU: Asus RTX 3060 DUAL OC V2 LHR
CPU: Intel Core i7-14700KF
Cooler: Noctua NH-U12S
OS SSD: Samsung 500GB 870 EVO
SSD 2: Samsung 1TB 870 EVO

Monitor: Acer Nitro VG240YM 23,8


Alright. So im experiencing grey lines, box-shaped artifacts and monitor blackouts without any sort of pattern to it.
Weird thing is, the problem doesnt appear under stress(gaming, superposition benchmark). Mostly after booting to windows.
Few times monitor just went black and couldnt find input, so i had to re-attach DP cable to make it work again.
Just few days ago i got message when booting, that "the pcie x16 link speed has been modified to gen3". Changing back to gen4 from bios didnt affect anything, computer booted normally.
Ive tried underclocking, DDU-wiping drivers and installing older ones(561.09), updating monitor drivers from its manufacturer and even doing a clean install of windows.
Only time i managed to "fix it" was by restarting my monitor, that has worked few times.

Link to videos related:

Any help is appreciated!
 

eidairaman1

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System Name PCGOD
Processor AMD FX 8350@ 5.0GHz
Motherboard Asus TUF 990FX Sabertooth R2 2901 Bios
Cooling Scythe Ashura, 2×BitFenix 230mm Spectre Pro LED (Blue,Green), 2x BitFenix 140mm Spectre Pro LED
Memory 16 GB Gskill Ripjaws X 2133 (2400 OC, 10-10-12-20-20, 1T, 1.65V)
Video Card(s) AMD Radeon 290 Sapphire Vapor-X
Storage Samsung 840 Pro 256GB, WD Velociraptor 1TB
Display(s) NEC Multisync LCD 1700V (Display Port Adapter)
Case AeroCool Xpredator Evil Blue Edition
Audio Device(s) Creative Labs Sound Blaster ZxR
Power Supply Seasonic 1250 XM2 Series (XP3)
Mouse Roccat Kone XTD
Keyboard Roccat Ryos MK Pro
Software Windows 7 Pro 64
OS: Just upgraded from Win 10 to Win 11 (Clean install)

Case: Lian Li LANCOOL II Mesh C Performance
Motherboard: ASUS PRIME Z690-P WIFI D4
PSU: Seasonic 850W FOCUS GX-850 Gold
RAM: 2x16GB Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200mhz
GPU: Asus RTX 3060 DUAL OC V2 LHR
CPU: Intel Core i7-14700KF
Cooler: Noctua NH-U12S
OS SSD: Samsung 500GB 870 EVO
SSD 2: Samsung 1TB 870 EVO

Monitor: Acer Nitro VG240YM 23,8


Alright. So im experiencing grey lines, box-shaped artifacts and monitor blackouts without any sort of pattern to it.
Weird thing is, the problem doesnt appear under stress(gaming, superposition benchmark). Mostly after booting to windows.
Few times monitor just went black and couldnt find input, so i had to re-attach DP cable to make it work again.
Just few days ago i got message when booting, that "the pcie x16 link speed has been modified to gen3". Changing back to gen4 from bios didnt affect anything, computer booted normally.
Ive tried underclocking, DDU-wiping drivers and installing older ones(561.09), updating monitor drivers from its manufacturer and even doing a clean install of windows.
Only time i managed to "fix it" was by restarting my monitor, that has worked few times.

Link to videos related:

Any help is appreciated!
That is either your monitor or gpu failing, change the monitor cable first, then swap monitors (borrow 1), if it still does it then that gpu is faulty and should be replaced with a bnib card.
 

jne02

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Swapped cable from DP to HDMI 2.1 today, will see if anything happens. For what its worth, whole computer is almost brand new(bought september 2024), including the DP cable and monitor
 

eidairaman1

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Location
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System Name PCGOD
Processor AMD FX 8350@ 5.0GHz
Motherboard Asus TUF 990FX Sabertooth R2 2901 Bios
Cooling Scythe Ashura, 2×BitFenix 230mm Spectre Pro LED (Blue,Green), 2x BitFenix 140mm Spectre Pro LED
Memory 16 GB Gskill Ripjaws X 2133 (2400 OC, 10-10-12-20-20, 1T, 1.65V)
Video Card(s) AMD Radeon 290 Sapphire Vapor-X
Storage Samsung 840 Pro 256GB, WD Velociraptor 1TB
Display(s) NEC Multisync LCD 1700V (Display Port Adapter)
Case AeroCool Xpredator Evil Blue Edition
Audio Device(s) Creative Labs Sound Blaster ZxR
Power Supply Seasonic 1250 XM2 Series (XP3)
Mouse Roccat Kone XTD
Keyboard Roccat Ryos MK Pro
Software Windows 7 Pro 64
Swapped cable from DP to HDMI 2.1 today, will see if anything happens. For what its worth, whole computer is almost brand new(bought september 2024), including the DP cable and monitor
That means nothing on age of parts
 
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