New Build Red Pixelated Freeze

It screen locks with a pixelated red texture over the last image, that fully freezes with another mouse click. Only a picture can do it justice.




It's a new build with all new parts running windows 7 64 bit. It's a little over a week old and this is only the third time it's happened(now fourth), i think all 3 times not in a game but during a video but haven't logged too many game hours, maybe 10. and the computers been on about 100.


Asus p8z68-v pro board
intel 2550k i5
16gb 1600 razor something
120gb mushkin ssd
560 gtx evga geforce
750w ocz with good ratings
coolermaster h212
Fully upgraded bios, 3000 something, most recent nvidia drivers and all drivers working except for a 3.0 usb enhanced. i have also run nemerous temp records and the cpu rarely passes 30c. was gonna oc but not in this condition.

wondering if it's obvious what's wrong before i start sytematically trying some other parts i have, problem is it only happens every 2-3 days and never during the few hours of stress tests i put it through. i figure start with a ram check overnight, followed by trying my old gpu to test the mobo/chip/gpu, needs a gpu because of the 2550k. no other power supply to try, and i guess i could boot it off my old hard drive to test the ssd, wasn't sure how realiably they support the os without a hdd even with current drivers, intel ones. so any tips or ideas would be appreciated in case i should send something back, got some of these parts a couple weeks ago and am a little worried about rma, though i believe all but 1 part to be in working order. thanks for your time.


edit: I should add i also already disconnected and reconnected all the connectors on the entire board and power supply making sure they were in well and correct after the first occurrence.

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EDIT. DSTM. Removed live link to another tech help site.

 

Hi tyroine. Welcome to Computer Help Forums.
Please upload Image directly from your Hard Drive to CHF.
A Techy should be along shortly to give you advice on the above issue.

 

sorry about that other link, thanks for the reply.

 

OK I m not a hardware expert and someone else is sure to look at this but from the picture alone it looks as if it may be the monitor itself. Have you tried duplicating the result with a different monitor before trying to isolate issues with the graphics card or drivers. I would suggest trying a different monitor and different cable. If you do not run into problems then the issue is partially solved. All that is left is to isolate the problem between a faulty cable and a faulty monitor.

Otherwise it seems to point to a faulty graphics card. You mentioned the CPU temperature but have you also been checking the graphics temp as well?

 

much appreciated for the tips. I tested the monitor and cable and know they are not at fault. It definitely felt like the gpu to me, not sure why i haven't been recording those temps, dumb on my part cause you guys are probably right. The actual case has great airflow so i'm guessing at this point, until i can prove it, that the gpu has some type of cooling malfunction(fan still does spin though). I'll post back in a couple of days with what i did. rebates due in like 2 days.......and i have to work this weekend and my moms visiting, ahhh!