Hello,
Sorry beforehand, I do IT Service Desk so I am pretty detailed about stuff. The problems started about a month ago. My computer would randomly restart and boot normally. In the Windows log, it said that there was power loss. I noticed that when it would restart, none of the other devices in the same surge protector would restart so I don't think it was a power issue. Ended up changing it to another surge protector with less stuff in it, but it still happened. The reason why I mention this is because I sometimes do have some bad power surges and one day, it broke literally every surge protector in my house. Eventually I had another issue. When I had woke it from being on sleep mode, it would be a black screen. When I restarted it at this point, most of the time it would just boot to a black screen again with no sound. Sometimes one of my fans would not start as well. I would turn it off, unplug it, and press the power button 15 times to reset it. That would usually work until today. Today it did not start and I noticed that when it did start, the fans on my GPU would not spin either. I moved my GPU to another PCI slot and it booted normally finally. I don't think it is a monitor or cable issue as well because I have two displays that showed nothing, one with a HDMI port and one with a display port. Most of the time, I think it crashes when I am using Chrome and usually watching Youtube. I do game and my GPU does run quite loud and at 100% utilization, but only gets to about 70 degrees. I personally think it is my GPU, but I'm not sure if it could cause all of those problems. I did see that the release notes on the last two driver updates for my GPU do mention black screen or system hang during extended periods of game play and the issues did kind of start when I updated it from possible before those two updates, but I was not playing a game before most of these issues happened.
Running Windows 10 Home version 64bit, 10.0.18362
MSI Z270 Gaming M5 Motherboard
BIOS version 1.A0, 7/3/18 (was just updated)
Intel i7-7700k 4 core 4.2GHz cooled by a Corsair H50 closed loop watercooler
2x8GB DDR4 GSkill Ripjaw 3200MHz
Power Color Red Dragon Radeon RX 580
1TB WD Blue HDD
Corsair RM650i (650W) Gold certified PSU (should be around 100 above recommended)
It's all in a full tower case with 3 120mm fans and 2 140mm fans
