Icons are screwed up after GPU failure.

[Unfocused]

I've got a problem here - some of my icons are looking weird right now and rebooting the PC doesn't help. It's only some of the icons, of certain types, like the Winrar or utorrent ones, the rest of what's displayed is OK.

I was playing the Project Reality mod for BF2 and suddenly the PC crashed, so I rebooted it. I played some more PR, but again, everything stopped, but this time after a few seconds, the PC was operational again, but with artifacts and graphical glitches etc., even after alt+tabbing to desktop. I tried to reset the GPU somehow, but couldn't find out how to do it, so I only tried going back to standard clock values, switching refresh rates, resetting driver settings to default - doing stuff that hopefully would reload the GPU without having to restart the PC. Nothing worked, so I rebooted and noticed that some of the icons are screwed up.

BTW, I checked the temperature in that glitched state, right after alt+tabbing and it was at 68C, so it wasn't burning. I can't show any screenshots of how it looked like cause I didn't paste anything into paint and all the screenshots I took in-game turned out all black.


Anyway, why the hell is everything OK now, apart for some icons?

 

[MorganFreeman911]

It could be a graphics card melt. I had one of those.

 

[Unfocused]

So a part of my GPU, responsible for the correct display of certain icons (cause everything else is fine), melted? Oh shi-!