Which PC component failed?

Question

Computers

Hello! There was an interesting breakdown of the PC - in the middle of the game (and I only play on weekends), the computer went into a reboot .... cyclic. On the BIOS splash screen (picture with logo), this very picture became distorted by artifacts. Reboot occurs, apparently, at the stage of video driver initialization. At first I thought about the video card. I went into safe mode, rechecked the hard drives, removed the video driver - the system starts up, there are no artifacts, the video card is not detected in the device manager (universal driver). Processor without integrated video. After a couple of minutes of work, the screen turns black again and reboots.

I have 2 assumptions - either the motherboard is kaput, because the artifacts are only on the splash screen, or a cunning breakdown of the video card. Tell me, please, what can it be? Thanks in advance

Answer 1

Overheating something. The same video card, most likely.
And yes, overheating could cause a breakdown, but not yet a fact.
Measure the temperature of the video card, along with the processor. It is better to output such information to the tray or log it. You, when driving a car, look at the speed, the level of gasoline, oil, etc. - also here, only the main indicators are usually the CPU, memory and network load, and the secondary, but also quite important, are the temperature of the components, rotation speeds, etc.

Answer 2

1. what vidyuha (nvidia, or amd)?
2. what cable is connected to the monitor (VGA, HDMI, etc.)

Answer 3

Check fans for overheating...