I’ve had this problem for almost a year, don’t remember exactly when it started to happen but it’s very consistent now. The only way I can stop it from happening is lowering my in game resolution down a lot, which makes the game look awful. Only usually happens during certain in game moments.
i have a pretty good build too, used to never happen at all
During gaming, my computer will make my monitors go black but it stays on (making me restart to fix)
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check event viewer bro bro
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Are the specs in your profile up to date?
Eventviewer may be a good place to start.
If memory serves:
Rightclick the filters on the top left > create new filter
In there, select System and Hardware as failure sources, Categories should be “Critical, Severe and warning”
Additionally, you can install HWinfo64 and set it to log into a file, that way you can look at sensor data just before the system died after the fact.
I’d be tempted to try a different display cable.
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I was going to make the same recommendation. The problem changing with a lower resolution smells like a signal integrity issue.
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yes everything is up to date, i checked event viewer and it was event ID 41. i was looking more into it and i’m thinking its maybe an overheating problem, i ran HWinFO and when i launched a game, it would say the limit is exceeded… i’ll provide photos to help me explain
i’ve also noticed that when my room is a little warmer than usually, it tends to black screen more which is making me think it’s an overheating problem. would i have to reapply thermal paste?
Does it only happen when gaming or general usage
We need a little bit more system spec information.
It could be a gpu driver crash for example.
yes only during gaming
CPU: Intel Core i9 10850K 3.60GHz (5.20GHz Turbo), 10-Core 20-Thread GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Tuf 10GB Chipset: Intel Z490 RAM: G.Skill TridentZ RGB 32GB DDR4 3200MHz SSD: 1TB Intel 660P M.2 NVMe SSD, CPU Cooler: RGB AIO 240MM Liquid Cooling PSU: 750W 80 Plus Gold PSU
these are my specs, i always update my gpu whenever a new driver comes out
what could cause the gpu driver to crash?
whenever my pc black screens, i can hear audio still for about 10 secs then it goes away.
sometimes it does a loud buzzing sound too, different every other time it happens.
i’ve also noticed just recently that whenever i’m watching a youtube video, my pc like stutters. everything stops for a split second but it continues just fine. it’s only during gaming when it actually black screens and the only way i can avoid it from happening is by lowering my resolution a lot in game
This is either voltage,heat issues or both. When I was overclocking I noticed these things too. Try OCCT and do a ram check first with half your cores running during that test and see what pops up for an hour. If that is fine run the cpu test with 3/4ths of your cores and test. Those usually don’t take long to see a issue so that can run for 5-10 minutes first then if no issues longer test.
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Well allot of things, a bad driver, a bad windows update you name it.
But if it is a bad driver or windows update it is likely that we see more similar complaints.
it could also be something related to what others have mentioned,
like voltage or temperature issue.
idk if you run any overclock on the system but you might start with running everything at stock.
i just ordered thermal paste which is coming in today, i think im going to reapply some to my cpu and gpu to see if that fixes the issue. I found out my gpu also uses thermal pads so would u recommend me replace those too or just use thermal paste?
when Wendell is talking about his kvm research he often talks about bad dp cable’s loosing stream. Could it be posible this is the problem. A simple bad dp cable
i used to overclock, everything is stock settings right now and the issue stays. my voltages look fine, i’ve been monitoring them the past few days and they don’t spike down or up, they stay pretty consistent.
i have thermal paste coming in today so im hoping maybe that will fix it, i’ll give an update on it whenever i reapply it
Sounds like VRAM stability problems. Or CPU cache.
Try lowering the temp target in MSI Afterburner followed by reducing VRAM speed
i’ll try a new dp cable if applying new thermal paste doesn’t work, i didn’t rly think it was the cable because sometimes when it black screens, i can hear a very loud buzzing sound so it made me think it was the something to do with the hardware shutting down or something. it only black screens in specific moments in game and it’s always the same moments. it seems when there’s a lot of graphic processing to do, it like overloads ig