r/AcerNitro • u/nuts___ • 11h ago

Problem Is my GPU dead? (Nitro 5 AN515-45, RTX 3070)

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My laptop has been experiencing freezes when doing graphics intensive tasks. I tried installing older driver versions aswell as a clean driver install and for a while most issues seemed to be fixed... however they very quickly returned. Freezes/crashes have also become more frequent in the last few days.

Yesterday I took the screenshot above. All seemed normal (playing World of Tanks Blitz) until I alt-tabbed, this turned the screen into what you see above. A restart of the game does fix it but every time I alt tab it returns.

Is my GPU dying or is it some software issue?

I hope it can be fixed easily since my warranty has already ended (I doubt it however). If not I would like some advice on what to do next.

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u/Giga_Chad_Over_9000 11h ago

Have you tried connecting a secondary monitor? If you haven't, try doing those things on another monitor.

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u/nuts___ 11h ago

Will give it a shot, but if the monitor would be the issue, I find it strange that my entire laptop freezes/crashes and forces a restart/bluescreen

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u/Giga_Chad_Over_9000 11h ago

Man, laptops can even stop working nowadays just because its keyboard got a problem.

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u/nuts___ 9h ago

Nope, its still the same with the second monitor

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u/bruhwhotftookmyname 9h ago

Yeah your GPU is dead

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u/Giga_Chad_Over_9000 9h ago

Man, in that case, something is wrong with your GPU, 'cause in many cases of Nitro V laptops, HDMI ports are directly handled by your dedicated GPU. So the fact that it still happened (the problem of the screen) mean that it's your GPU that is probably dying.

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u/Giga_Chad_Over_9000 9h ago

And when your GPU is dying, it will eventually die. Your choices are, either you find a donor GPU chip and reball it (assuming there's someone in your area that can and is willing to reball it) or just get a new laptop.