Graphics Card crashed(?)

[Joonas3]

Product name is included above.

I was playing a game called Hardspace: Shipbreaker when the game crashed. I was too befuddled to note down the exact error message, but it said something about memory.

I looked at my graphics card in Device Manager and it said my RTX 3050 "wasn't working". I tried to open NVIDIA control panel and I got a message saying that my computer couldn't detect a connected NVIDIA graphics device (my monitor is connected to the graphics card so it was obviously connected). Around this time I noticed that my Opera GX browser was also not responding, but my Google Chrome browser seemed to be fine.

I restarted my PC and the graphics card registed no problems anymore.

[Bill_To]

Greetings @Joonas3 

Welcome to the HP Forum.

This could be a one time: game, OS, or driver anomaly. Keep an eye on it.

I would say you may have a hardware problem if this error continues to happen. It would not be possible to predict what component has a problem.

Your PC could have an Intel CPU subject to degradation.

I would follow steps at this Site to check your CPU if your PC has an Intel 13th gen or 14th gen processor.

Download and run the Intel Processor Diagnostics Tool from the link at the site at minimum. But I would also do the HWiNFO/Cinebench routine to check processor: stability and metrics.

Regards