PNY GeForce RTX 5070 Owner Stuck in Stand-Off With No Warranty Replacement After Constant Screen Artifacts and System Crashes. This saga brings into sharp focus the conflict of reliability of hardware vs. stability of Windows 11 scheduling features. If you own this graphics card, beware! You'll need to watch your system settings like a hawk to avoid data loss or system downtime.
A PNY GeForce RTX 5070 owner reports constant system crashes and screen artifacts that persist even after the manufacturer confirms the card passes rigorous stress tests.
User claims they get constant black screens and blue errors when using the GPU for gaming or other things. User contacted PNY technical support who ran a 24 hour stress test with 3D Mark Steel Nomad and Unigine Superposition. They used two 4K monitors during this test. User's test was said to pass diagnostics with no errors found by manufacturer PNY.
Despite passing the stress test, user is still getting Windows 133 DPC_WATCHDOG_VIOLATION errors. As well as FECS Microcode fatal errors. Seems like the issue is rooted in Windows 11 Hardware Accelerated GPU Scheduling.
It causes crashes during light loads. When user disables this feature, they can avoid the crashes. But, it breaks compatibility with DLSS Frame Generation.
A user has had a similar experience with PNY RTX 5080. They fixed this by returning it to Micro Center. User with original 5070 is now filing a credit card dispute with Staples for the faulty hardware. It's a very hard problem to pin down when there's software vs. hardware conflicts like this in modern PC builds.
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