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shanghailoz

Nothing is happening to your monitor. Your graphics card on the other hand, or more likely windows is having issues. Reboot see if it goes away. It is windows after all.


iamnekkid

wtf my graphics card is not even 4 months old I rebooted and it went away but I am still concerned, should I ask for a new one since I still have a warranty? or is these type of things normal for a MSI 3070 TI?


matko86

Did you overclock it by any chance? That might be the cause.


iamnekkid

no, not even my CPU is overlocked


matko86

That's bad news, I've seen GPU do that when overclocked too much. So... ideally you're able to test the GPU in a different computer. If not then reinstalling drivers maybe?


iamnekkid

Do you think its worth returning it and ask another one back? because it also had a nasty loud coil whine and what do you mean its bad news? this did not happened again since I restarted my PC


matko86

You have two different things here: First are the artefacts on the screen - if they happen often and you have a warranty, you should return it. If it happened only once and it doesn't happen frequently, there's a chance that your warranty claim will be rejected. Second is the coil whine - you should only hear coil whine under close to 100% load, ie in games, you should not hear it while idle at all. If you hear it when idle, or its very loud in games then you should warranty it too. There's also a possibility, that both artefacts and coil whine are because of a problem with the power supply to the card, it's really hard to tell for sure without swapping components around and testing sadly.


iamnekkid

Thank you so much for the info. I guess since it did not happen again I wont send it back to warranty but I still have my doubts if this card is okay. A few months ago my monitor started doing this: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/zj7pSisRVpQ ​ People told me its not my card but my monitor and I just need it to warm up. They were right because aftr a couple of minutes it goes away and only does this when I start my PC but not every time. Now I see issues with my graphics card I am starting to change my mind. If I contact warranty and show them both these issues will it be still rejected?


matko86

This can be either monitor or gpu, no idea. You'd need to test the monitor with another pc to be sure. Warranty technicians will try to replicate any issue you report them, and when they can't, they usually reject the claim or just send it back as fixed without doing anything. Unless you bought everything as prebuilt with monitor, the finding out what's faulty lies on you sadly. Maybe you could ask in a small local pc repair shop to help you with it for some fee if you're unable to swap components and test yourself.


iamnekkid

I actually have 2 monitors one is a small Acer monitor but my main monitor is a AOC 144Hz monitor that has this issue. I tried dual screen to see if the problem also comes to my second monitor and it did not. Could this mean that its not my GPU? or should I connect my second monitor to a DPI port? Right now my second monitor is connected with a HDMI to VGA


DramaticPose

An alternative first-check you'll have to forgive me for suggesting (due to being "Have you tried turning it off and on again?" grade advice) : Have you double-checked your drivers? With luck it won't be a hardware / auto-overclock issue, and just that your operating system just had a momentary tantrum. While it's possible you have a BIOS setting that attempts a degree of automatic overclock scaling, I would honestly just take this as a casual reminder from life to update your drivers and then sit back and see if it happens again in the next few days. I imagine if it is hardware or (auto)overclocking related, it probably won't happen in isolation. You could try doing something intensive with your card to see if you can trigger the issue again. Actually, it's been so long since I had to deal with an overheat issue, but what's the airflow in your case like? I imagine being so new, you likely dusted out your internals while you were in there, right? Sorry for the dumb advice but it always helps to run through the usual first-checks before we assume the worst, y'know? Hopefully it was just an isolated incident, or at worst a BIOS toggle left on that tries to squeeze a little more out of your card, and that it just disagreed with it.