I was using my computer this morning and it was working perfectly fine. I loaded Iracing to complete a time trial at Laguna with the Solstice. I get in the car and as I take off, my computer freezes and white lines appear all over the screen. I couldn't get out of it to desktop, so I did a force shut down. I rebooted it and tried again to load up Iracing. This time, it froze while loading and immediatly restarted my comp. Once my comp started up, a ton of dead pixel spots appeared all over my screen. Here is the best pic I could get of them:

http://img26.imageshack.us/img26/6458/screenaty.jpg

As of now my desktop is completely inoperable. The screen is flickering on and off or it is showing my desktop with the pixel spots or white lines. What I want to know is if this was something to do with Iracing or did it just happen coincidentally as I was using Iracing. Here is the type of monitor I have:

http://www.sceptre.com/Product ... ations/spec_x9g_Gamer.htm

Only thing i could think it might be is your memory on the gfx card is screwed which is not fixable so RMA is the only solution.

I believe it wouldn't be related to a particular program, but rather an hardware trouble. The problem about these things is that they're hard to pin point. I'd tend to say it's the graphic cards, though.

If you have more than one stick of RAM, try removing one of them at a time and booting up the PC to see if it gets better. If you have any spare parts (spare GPU, or even spare video cables) you should try the switch and see if it makes any difference.

The dead pixels and flicker on the screen doesn't remind me of a RAM trouble, though. It's more likely the GPU (which would be dead, or agonizing).

thats what happened to mine when my graphics card packed up

Right, so I just turned it back on after having it off for 10 minutes and it works fine; However, once I loaded up LFS it froze again with the same white lines. The issue is definitely the graphics card, which is a Nvidia Geforce 6800 (rather old).

Not sure if this has much to do with it, but I had a similar problem, Instead of white lines it was red, Like this pic, http://f.imagehost.org/view/0961/DSC00828, As i said im not sure if it has anything to do with it, but by taking the graphics card out and cleaning it and putting it back in fixed the problem..

You havn't mentioned what your system specs and OS are, if you boot in safe mode (F8 during windows boot) do you still get the artifacts?

I would try removing and reinstalling the GFX card drivers as a first step.

Have you done any overclocking at all? or is the GFX card 2nd hand?

Check the GFX card is free from dust/grime on the heatsink and the fan is working.

Have you recently added any HW you might be overloading your PSU (although this would most likely cause instant crash/reboot)

Good luck.

SD.

I had a similar problem a year ago with the same GPU, but I thought it might have been monitor related this time. I already have been planning on building a new comp though, so this is just all the more reason to go ahead and do it. The current one is salvageable, but i'd much rather go ahead and build a new one (It will also be the first time I build a comp). Thanks for the help though .

Quote from Vendetta :

http://img26.imageshack.us/img26/6458/screenaty.jpg

those are artifacts... usually caused by overheating or overclocking (or both)...

you said your pc rebooted itself, do you have "automatic restart on failure" turned on in windows (it is by default)? most likely what happened, was the artifacts screwed up the driver, and the machine BSOD'ed and instantly rebooted.

providing you didn't lie on your country-of-origin, you're in summer time, so this would be the right time for something like this to happen... if there is such a thing as a right time...

check the fan and heatsink, but it could be that it's the ram on the video card and not the gpu itself... without pulling the card and touching it in various places, it's hard to tell.

let us know how things turn out.