I have a Gainward 3080 Ti, recently its been acting up. I was playing Starcraft 2, a relatively old game and the screen just blacked out, the audio was still on and it seemed like to me the system was trying to reboot it, there was device disconnected sound and a few moments later it played a reconnection sound and another disconnection sound, the screen flashes for a bit. afterwards, nothing. The sounds and everything functions as normal and I can still hear my games. It started happening yesterday, I reseated the GPU and went to do a short benchmark and everything seemed to work fine until later that day it happened again, I tried to do a benchmark again today and it just straight up not responded and froze the benchmark in place. Can still use the PC as normal but only for simple tasks, even gaming on games that is as old as me is a struggle for my device. I am using Nvidia's drivers, version 546.33 released 12 December 2023. They told me it was the latest one for my RTX 3080 Ti.
Additional Info: I have a debug light on my motherboard, it seemed to stuck on the yellow 'VGA' light for longer than usual, nothing too long but like around 10 seconds longer than usual. I suspect my 3080 Ti has a foot in the grave.
#Possibly dying GPU
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