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Question

screen goes completly one colored, blue white and more

Sep 9, 2015 12:24PM PDT

today at lunch i left to get something to eat, when i got back the entire screen was brown and nothing i did could remove it, i restarted and a while later the screen started "flickering" going bacl for a few seconds then returning to normal with an alert from windows in the bottom right corner, something about a nvidia graphics error, never had time to read it properly, after a few instances of going in and out of black the screen turned completly white. later after i'd been playing for a few hours i turn of the game, open google chrome and the screen goes complety blue this time, i have no idea what is causing this, all the wires seem intact so i doubt it is a problem with them , my drivers are updated too.

My rig
GeForce GTX 760
Intel Core i5-4670 cpu 340GHz
8 gb ram
and i am running windows 10 as OS

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Re: screen
Sep 9, 2015 12:44PM PDT

Well, it's either the videocard or the monitor/cable.

So you try another monitor/cable on this PC and this monitor/cable on another PC and then you'll know what to repair or replace. it's as simple as that.
But, given the error message you quote, my guess is that a video card is the solution.

Kees

Post was last edited on September 9, 2015 12:45 PM PDT

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re:re:screen
Sep 9, 2015 3:21PM PDT

so you mean i'll have to buy a new cable or video card to solve this?

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Or borrow.
Sep 9, 2015 3:29PM PDT

Many folk have a HDTV to try this on today.

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Several things to check for this.
Sep 9, 2015 1:04PM PDT

The first and easiest thing to check would be Device Manager to see if you're needing a driver. After that I'd boot to Safe Mode and see if you still get the problem. While in Safe Mode I'd do a full scan with your antivirus program. If you still have the problem, reboot, download MalwareBytes, get it up to date, and do a scan with it.
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Good luck.