Occasional issue on booting.

[aaron283]

Hello!

Every so often, maybe once or twice a month (sometimes more, it's random.. Sometimes every two months) my computer will boot up looking like my GPU is busted. It'll boot fine, get to the windows logon screen and I have several colour patterns which resemble a busted Graphics card. I also log in and the GPU isn't picked up what so ever. I get a message to install and/or update my current drivers.

When this happens I would simply restart the computer, it could take anywhere between one to five restarts for the computer to boot normal and as I said, it only happens once or twice a month. It's been an ongoing issue for almost three years now and I cant seem to solve it, The issue is too random to replace any hardware to see if that rules out the problem intitally so I've ignored it up until this point. It has never happened when the computer has been restarted after running for a considerable amount of time. Typically, when I turn it back on in the morning/afternoon from the night before, that's when the issue occurs.

I'm quite lost on the issue and would appreciate some help from anyone that might have experienced this before? Thank you!

 

[ic1male]

I have a similar problem except that it does it on every boot. And yet the display is perfectly fine in safe mode. I thought it might be a driver problem but when I reformatted Windows and was presented with the log in screen for the very first time, it was like a kaleidoscope of colour.

So why does the video card behave in safe mode but not in Windows normal mode? Is it bust?

 

[aaron283]

Safe mode uses the motherboard graphics, I've been reading up on the possiblity that the GPU isn't recieving the proper supply of voltage, causing the graphics to appear messed up and apparently a complete reset of the computer would normally solve the problem. It's due to some cards incompatibility with specific motherboards. I've tried going into BIOS and selecting a higher priority list for the GPU to be loaded quicker when the computer boots. Fingers crossed this solves it, has seemed to work just fine today atleast.

I've messaged gigabyte and I'm currently in the process of getting the issue solved with them, it's just a weird one. For three years I've never had any problems when it successfully boots.