Broken card or me?

[FlamBango]

I just got a replacement card off ebay, an rtx 2060 super and plugged it in, what im seeing are loads of pixels on screen flashing on and off and the occasional "tear". This is just windows desktop. Ive got new cables, it appears to be sat in the slot ok and there is enough power supply to drive it.

*edit* Ok there was one large "glitch" and the screen went black, the pc was still running though. So I turned it off, left if 5 mins and turned back on again. Its been fine since, i loaded up everspace 2 , put it in Ultra and ran it fine for 10 , 15 mins, no issue. Its been about 40 mins since the black glitch. I wasn't looking at the gpu temperatures when it did that but looking at them ever since the reboot the max it went to was 65 degrees which is fine.

So was it possible not cooling originally and now it is, loose power pin or something? was that a symptom of overheating?

 

[J.D]

I'd continue to put it through tests running either games or benchmarks while monitoring temps to see if you can replicate the problem as soon as possible so you can return the card if needed.
If you can replicate the problem, if it's possible, try your GPU in another system to completely rule out the PSU.

That's the steps I'd take.

If it doesn't happen again, then just enjoy the card but I'd personally be wary for a while as that has never happened to me before. Nobody here will be able to answer what your problem was, just suggestions. Did you make sure the cables were all pushed in correctly after the large glitch?

 

[Jono8]

Were they black squares (of multiple pixels)?

I got some black squares on my screen after/during a windows update the other day. Thought my vram was borked but after restarting Windows it has been fine ever since (for months).

 

[CuriousTomCat]

If it was me, I'd test the GPU in my spare PC.

 

[FlamBango]

no, single pixels randomly across the screen just twinkling The "tears" were like several whole scanlines corrupting briefly. Well its been on all afternoon and is fine. must have been a driver issue, it went wonky after the install and the gforce "experience" put the new drivers on, after the reboot its settled down.

 

[VonScar]

Test it with Furmark and see if the corruption shows. If it does return it asap.

 

[Pulseammo]

The "tears" sound like it could be display port related? Are you connected by display port?

 

[andybird123]

Sounds like something was loose, disconnected completely leading to the black screen and fiddling with it reconnected everything good.
Run some tests (e.g. game on it for an hour plus in one session) but if it's stopped doing it it sounds fine.