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Does this mean my gfx card is about to die?

Brok

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Got sparklies all over the screen like this

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Was just loading up Borderlands 2 at the time then it crashed saying some D3D file had been removed. Just trying updated drivers now but is my card about to die? :)

Its a Geforce 275GTX (yes its quite old now)
 
Do you have any overclock on the card? - if so - do you get the same sparkly results if you return it to factory clocks?
 
Its intermittent, this is the second time I've seen it in the past 4 days or so. After a driver update and reboot its gone away...for now.

Just checked as I couldnt remember if it was overclocked or not (its 4 years old) and its currently running at stock.
 
I'm no 100% sure then tbh, could be that your right and the gpu is starting to go, but it could just as likely be other problems as well, - as the gpu is a bit old is the psu that powers it just as old? Could maybe be an issue with power getting to the gpu?, (just a wild stab really) - lets hope the driver update does solve it for ya though :)
 
So after updating drivers I left Borderlands 2 running in the background and waited to see what would happen. Eventually I got the same error message, but no sparklies. The error suggests its actually Steam Big Picture that's the root cause:-

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Can live without Big Picture on my desktop as was only testing it out so will see if that solves the problem.

Slightly dissapointed as gfx card going bang would force me to buy a new one :D
 
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