Is this a graphics card Issue?

[Jawbreaker]

Not sure if this is the right forum but tonight my laptop looks like this. Does this mean the graphics card is going bad?

Edited Monday at 05:19 AM by Jawbreaker

[mechahamham]

Possibly. It looks like your gamma is turned ALL the way up. It's not affecting all your UI elements, but most of them.

 

Could also be a memory issue.

 

I'd

 

a) Reinstall your video card driver after deleting all your settings and the like. It's possible for those settings to get corrupted and

b) Run Memtestx86+ to test your computer's RAM. https://memtest.org/

[Captain Fabulous]

Does this happen only when you run the Homecoming Launcher?

[Jawbreaker]

6 hours ago, Captain Fabulous said:

Does this happen only when you run the Homecoming Launcher?

It's always like that, EXCEPT on boot-up, where it shows the usual ASUS logo

[Jawbreaker]

20 hours ago, mechahamham said:

Possibly. It looks like your gamma is turned ALL the way up. It's not affecting all your UI elements, but most of them.

 

Could also be a memory issue.

 

I'd

 

a) Reinstall your video card driver after deleting all your settings and the like. It's possible for those settings to get corrupted and

b) Run Memtestx86+ to test your computer's RAM. https://memtest.org/

Can't even see anything when trying to click on icons or websites to try and do anything

 

[mechahamham]

2 hours ago, Jawbreaker said:

9 hours ago, Captain Fabulous said:

Does this happen only when you run the Homecoming Launcher?

It's always like that, EXCEPT on boot-up, where it shows the usual ASUS logo

 

That kinda points at a RAM issue, but it's possibly RAM on the video card.

 

Hear me out. That logo is stored in the on-board ROM chip, either from your motherboard or on the graphics card, and is more or less read straight out of that ROM and plopped onto the screen. If the video processing were broken, that wouldn't display correctly. Once your computer begins execution of code, then it copies the result of that execution into RAM. It sends the data to be displayed on screen to your graphics card's RAM. If your main system RAM were broken enough to cause the screenshot you saw, it could make it difficult to boot windows.

 

So are you able to tell if there's frequent crashing or lock-ups? If so, that points at your motherboard RAM. If not, that points at the RAM on your video card.

[Captain Fabulous]

One thing you can try is connecting an external monitor and see if it looks the same. That will rule out an issue with your display panel.

[Jawbreaker]

10 hours ago, mechahamham said:

 

That kinda points at a RAM issue, but it's possibly RAM on the video card.

 

Hear me out. That logo is stored in the on-board ROM chip, either from your motherboard or on the graphics card, and is more or less read straight out of that ROM and plopped onto the screen. If the video processing were broken, that wouldn't display correctly. Once your computer begins execution of code, then it copies the result of that execution into RAM. It sends the data to be displayed on screen to your graphics card's RAM. If your main system RAM were broken enough to cause the screenshot you saw, it could make it difficult to boot windows.

 

So are you able to tell if there's frequent crashing or lock-ups? If so, that points at your motherboard RAM. If not, that points at the RAM on your video card.

No, no crashes or lockups, was working great until this

[Jawbreaker]

1 hour ago, Captain Fabulous said:

One thing you can try is connecting an external monitor and see if it looks the same. That will rule out an issue with your display panel.

I'll try that tonight, thank you

[Troo]

Any luck?