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Hi, Last Saturday all of a sudden, my screens went black and fans were skyrocketing for the first time in 10 months. I've never encountered any problem before. I can use my computer fine, but whenever I want to game, my screens will go black in about 30 seconds till 5 minutes, after which I can't do anything anymore. This is frustrating, so I started to explore what could be the problem. I did the following: - My computer still operates though, so trying to read dump is impossible. - Windows event viewer also does not tell me anything useful. - The PCI-e slot where my graphics card sits in is reinforced with steel, so therefore it could not be bent (I am also using a graphics card sag bracket). - I have uninstalled my drivers using DDU in safe mode, no effect - When watching the data in HWMonitor, I see that it is always on 1.050 volts and about 60 degrees, no problems there - I have not overclocked it or anything like that - The motherboard is an Asrock Taichi Z370, which has a very solid power delivery. The PSU is an RM650x, so no cheap PSU or whatsoever. I have not had this problem in over 10 months, and none of the solutions worked. I would not like to open up my graphics card to replace the thermal paste, as it will void my warranty. What more can I do? PS: The card is a Gigabyte Aorus GTX 1080 (https://bit.ly/2NHGWr6)

Hello, I had recently upgraded my 5+ yr bronze psu to a 80+ gold one (maybe like 2-3 months ago). I also bought a used gpu at around the same time and I installed both at the same time. About a month ago, I started having issues with my pc of getting freezes and locks randomly and screen turns black. My tower however is still on (I can see all the LEDs and fans are still working). I tried to turn it off by holding the power button but it doesn't turn off, so I would have to switch my psu off to turn the pc off and start again. This black-screen-to-nothing-while-tower-is-on issue also happens when I restart my pc. So basically for any windows update I would have to shutdown and power on instead of just clicking restart. I thought it was the gpu so I put my old one back but it still happened. I thought it was a drive issue so I bought a new ssd and fresh installed windows. Still nothing. So I had problem with the power not working on the case, gpu black screen and drives. I gave up for a few weeks, but I did more thinking and realized that the psu can be the cause since it's connected to all of them. I denied at first since it's new, but i had to try. I put my old 5 yr old psu back and see. My pc now restarts perfectly! Issue now is that I still get random freezes when I'm barely navigating through folders. But no black screen, just non-responsive. I'm thinking maybe my old psu is just old, but it never gave me problems before, so now I'm just stuck. My question is this. Could the newer psu that failed have damaged other parts like the mobo or ssd or gpu? Does it seem like I just need a new psu that's not defective? Keep in mind that the fail psu was in my system for about 2-3 months. Before anyone asks, I updated my bios and installed windows updates already. I'm at a loss so please, if anyone have may insights, it would be greatly appreciated. I would certainly hope not to have to buy a whole new system since my pc is only a year old, but if I do, it'd be nice to know before black friday/cyber Monday. My system: Ryzen 5 1600x Asrock ab350m pro4 Corsair vengeance led 3200 mhz Gtx 970 Define mini c tg. I know it's a long post, but I just wanted to be detailed so I could get the best possible help. I could. Thanks in advance.

Hi, today I upgraded my Hackintosh with 8gb (2 x 4gb) of Ram DDR3 HyperX Predator The problem is... When I install both stick, I'm able to power on, but with black screen After 10 second the pc shutdown and restart, in loop How can I solve it? My spec are: Msi Z97S Sli Krait Edition I5 4460 8gb DDR3 HyperX Fury Thermaltake Berlin 630w Msi GeForce GTX 960 4gb

Hello, I've come here today with an issue that I can't seem to wrap my head around, so I came here in search of support. What's happening is I load up a video and there's a black screen with other images on the corners. Every time I scroll down or up, it duplicates the image onto the video screen. If anyone could find a solution to this, I would greatly appreciate it, as I have to resort to using my phone or IPad.

I am trying to help a friend out at the moment, so bear with me as I will try to explain to the best of my ability. Apparently when my friend was gaming today his PC went black and then restarted. When it started back up he logged in, but his displays were black. Also says his GPU fan is spinning very fast just at the login screen. He is currently at work so I cannot get more information than what I have currently. This seems it could relate to this https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/14106/windows-10-troubleshoot-black-screen-problems I told him when he gets a chance he could try these steps to try to restore it. I am wondering if anyone has any thoughts on the situation so that I could help guide him in a more accurate direction when he is available. Obviously another option is that his GPU could have quit, but I wonder why it would get back to the W10 login screen if the GPU was actually dead. Could it have been a windows update in the background that bugged out when doing an install/restart? I am just looking for possible ideas/solutions to fixing this issue. If you need anymore information I will do the best I can His motherboard is: Asus Z370 Prime-A GPU: EVGA GTX 1080 superclocked UPDATE: After he had signed in to W10 once and it was black screen, the next two times he signed in it was completely black and he couldn't get to the sign in screen. Also, when the screen first went black he restarted it himself (PC did not crash), and he could still hear the sounds of the game after it went black. He also tried the onboard graphics and they worked perfectly fine, he could reach desktop.

Hello guys I have problem when turning on my pc (below is the screen. it's from google but, it's same) PC works fine without any problem but this, how can I fix it? Please help me. Thanks

Bought an acer nitro 5 two months ago and it’s been serving me well as a fortnite machine until today when i fired up fortnite it loaded then the screen started to go black it was scary so immediately unplugged it from wall unplugged my mouse and then held the power button to shut it down now when I start it by pressing the power button it's a black screen but its a black screen not a off screen it’s LCD so I can really tell the difference so now i have tried everything hardware related but nothing worked so far i tried installing whole new windows and i even tried to update the bios but it is not letting me do anything now its displaying some kind of error code two orange leds blink than a single one blinks this keeps happening back and forth

hello everyone so a while back my computer just shut down and after that I keep having this someone told me it was my RAM so I bought the new one and send the old ones to repair but I keep having this and I don't know if it's my motherboard or my CPU can someone help me because I really don't know what's going on. Btw moederbord msi 970 gaming my CPU is FX-4300 AMD black edition

Hey, I had this problem once before and was able to fix it by updating the OS and drivers but now i have everything up to date so thats not an option. So i recently upgraded my msi GL-62 with an extra 8 gigs of ram and an 250 gig samsung evo 860 m.2 ssd to serve as a boot drive. Now when i try and wake my pc up from sleep it will get stuck on the MSI logo and not boot the OS, it even happens when turning on from shutdown sometimes. Like I said, this happend once before and some updates fixed it (i did nothing realy, one day windows updated and the problem was gone) but now as far as i can tell i have all the latest drivers and windows 10 pro 64bit. Any ideas on what i should do to fix it?

Problem: After windows boots (after windows 10 logo), but before the login screen appears, my monitors go black, no cursor is visible. I run a dual boot config, twice windows 10 (64 bit) one for personal use and one strictly for work, installed on different physical SSD's, not partitions. The problem only occurs when booting to the personal drive, the other one works just fine. Problems started after a windows update on my personal drive a while ago. In the midst of the update, the PC had to reboot, and booted to the wrong drive (Which is weird, the personal drive is set as primary boot drive). I immediately rebooted back to my personal drive, but only got a black screen. Rebooting from there results in a black screen again. Rebooting over and over again doesn't change anything, windows recovery never kicks in. The PC can boot into safe mode (F8 method, luckily boots in safe mode on the right drive). (only my secondary monitor works in that case, I don't know if this is normal?) From safe mode, no windows updates were available, so I guess the update did install completely? So, my next thought was this might be a GPU driver issue, no updates available though, I used DDU to uninstall and reinstall drivers. I got the latest driver from AMD's website. The problem almost seemed fixed at first, the PC reboots during the driver uninstall/installation proces, back in regular boot mode, and then works just fine, until I reboot again. I can repeat this proces of booting to safe mode, uninstalling the GPU drivers reinstalling them and then having everything working, for exactly 1 boot. I tried installing the optional newer version, or an older version of the drivers (Way back to 17.11.1, but the problems persist. I also checked if windows is up to date, checked other driver updates, I checked for malware, I cleaned out dust in my system, ... I tried unplugging the GPU and running on integrated graphics with just one monitor. (AMD A8 7600 APU w/ Radeon R7 integrated graphics) Still boots to black screen. Whenever I want I can boot to the work drive, and everything works fine there, the GPU driver installed there is 18.3.3. Which makes me believe it is not a Hardware problem. Any recommendations to try next? I'm thinking of reinstalling windows at this point... Monitor setup: Primary monitor: LG IPS led monitor connected via HDMI, freesync Secondary monitor: Acer VGA monitor, connected with a display port to VGA adapter Other Specs: Windows 10 (64 bit) Windows 10 (64 bit) (Dual boot, different physical drives) GPU: AMD RX480 from gigabyte CPU: AMD A8 7600 APU w/ Radeon R7 integrated graphics CPU cooler: Hyper 212 EVO MoBo: Gigabyte F2A68HM-H RAM: 8GB of Hyperx something. 2x 250GB Sandisk Plus SSD's 2x 500GB HDD WD HDD's Be Quiet 600W PSU Some brandless case I scavenged. Need more info?

Hello, my name is Tom. I'm new to this forum and since I didn't get any replies on the forum website I was on before I thought I'd try this one. I'l post the progress from the previous forum here. I hope you can help me. message 1: I have a problem with my computer (specs are in my bio) At first my computer kept black screening and freezing after 20 minutes or so in Kerbal Space Program. But I tried to fix it and nothing helped. I came back after an hour or so and my computer now crashed after 10 minutes in windows it self with nothing open. Now I'll keep it short, the time it took to crash kept shortening to where it now even crashes in the bios screen. I don't know what it could be as i've been using this computer in these exact specs for about 2/3 years. With black screen I mean that my monitors both say that they are going into standby mode. O and also after my computer has been on the black screen for a bit all my system fan's speed up and my blue lights in my keyboard turn off. If anyone can help me that would be really appreciated! Edit:I want to mention it is a pretty warm day and it’s around 28 degrees Celcius in my room. I did look at the temperatures of my computer beforehand but the cpu and gpu never got above 60 Degrees Celcius but maybe the motherboard did but I don’t know. Message 2: Can anyone help me, my computer worked again for a week after reseating the ram but now it doesn’t even work after reseating it. Message 3: Maybe the Tuesday's are just cursed. Message 4: Okey...... it just started working again at around the same time it did exactly 1 week ago........ Can someone please help me with my cursed computer..... kinda scared guys XD. Response 1: Tomjoppe28, download and run Seatools and test your HDD. It will let you know what state it is in. Message 5: Since it also crashes in the bios I don’t believe it is my ssd but I will check, thanks for the help! Message 6: Okay, it just crashed again! On another Tuesday this is getting weird. Last Tuesday it did work. But 3 Tuesdays it has crashed and it can’t start up again. I'm questioning the motherboard and the power supply but since it only does it on Tuesdays I'm not. I don't want to spend a lot of money on part's since I don't have much money.

About a month ago my PC started to randomly restart and I couldn't dig up anything from the crash logs, except Kernel Power 41 Critical Error which doesn't really help in this case. In the past 2 to 3 weeks the problem became more frequent, now tied with the display driver failed to start notification, right around the crashes which happen so: about a second long audio stutter, screen freezes, I hear the notification sound. The system seemingly continues to run, as I can still hear that I the games/movies are running. Sometimes my PC even refuses to start after such crash. As of now I've removed my video card which eliminated all problems so far. I've seen other people discussing similar problems but their solutions did nothing. I've tried reverting to older drivers, updating to new ones but nothing really helped.

Hello guys, I was just using my pc and my monitor turned black and restarted in 1 second, it happened couple of times, then I upgraded PSU but it didn't help. This problem happens very seldom but it's very annoying, and I wonder how to fix this problem, here are my pc specifications: CPU: AMD A8-7600 GPU: Geforce GT 520 4GB RAM (DDR3) Motherboard is something lenovo, with 14 pin connector and I have an adapter to connect 24 pin PSU to 14 pin. 500GB< HDD 450W PSU

I noticed that Chrome and Firefox were freezing constantly and some online games such as War Thunder just refused to launch. So I ran Malwarebytes, did a full scan and it found a couple of adware, asked me to restart to complete the process and everything went normally. Until I got into the desktop and found a black screen with only CMD open. Typing "explorer.exe" works and Chrome and War Thunder now work properly but its getting really annoying typing into CMD everytime I login. I heard some stuff about going into Registry and finding if "Winlogon\shell" leads to explorer.exe, which it does so no solution there. Also saw recommendations of resetting Windows to go back to a previous point but doesn't that just mean I start back at square one with the adware? Any solutions?

Hello, i'm having some problems with my coputer.I was running an i3 530 on a P7P55 LX motherboard and decided to upgrade to xeon x3440. Now the cpu isn't on the official supported list but i've seen plenty of people running the same setup, it's the same socket and it should work just fine with p55 setup.What i did: turned off the pc, removed the cables of fan and the cpu power, took out the fan and cleaned it from the old thermalbpaste, got the old cpu out, installed the new one correctly (fits exactly) got some thermal paste on it, a tiny rice bit, installed the fan and connected all the plugs. I pushed power and all i got was black screen(fans speening).I pushed the mem reset butten which did nothing and took out the little battery (cmos battery?) which also did nothing.Please help!

Please help me !!!!! Hi friends, I have been having an issue with my sleeping dogs game. After playing it few minutes, the screen goes black but i can still control the player and hear the music. I like the game so much. What i have tried to solve the problem:- I have tried alt+enter but that didn't work I have tried updating my drivers I have trived disabling the touch keyboard service My specs:- Intel core i3 5005u Intel hd 5500 4 gb ram Please help me friends!!!!! Thank you Any help us highly appreciated!!!!

Evening all, formerly TheTolsonator on the forums, but haven't been able to access that account (despite numerous attempts to contact mods and get it settled, but I digress) Recently sold my 4690k, ASUS Z97-A and 16GB of DDR3-1600 for a Ryzen 5 1600X, ASUS X-370-F Gaming and 16GB of memory. The story with the memory is complicated, but long story short, bought two 2x4GB kits from the QVL list and couldn't get them to run at the rated DDR4-3000 speed at all....endless boot loops and safe mode BIOS dumps. Anyway, returned those and bought a 2x8GB kit from Corsair (again from the QVL) with the part number (CMU16GX4M2C3000C15). Ran fine the first day and the following day I hit "GO LIVE" on a stream and blammo, black screen with the fans and lights still on. Figured the video driver crashed, but system was fully unresponsive (even to pings from my other computer). Nothing came of the power button or reset switch so I had to resort to flipping the power supply switch. Fast forward a few more days and things were okay, but twice today I've had the same thing happen, once while playing a game (Enter The Gungeon, no big draw there) and the other time was while unzipping the latest DDU and downloading the latest Nvidia driver for my GTX 1060. At the moment I've got a single 8GB DIMM from my fiance's computer in my system while she's using the 2x8GB kit to see if it happens in her syste-- Thank goodness for auto-saving web pages. The system crashed again. I'm guessing mainboard. Thoughts? Current hardware lineup - https://pcpartpicker.com/user/thetolsonator/saved/DRTWD3 All items are currently OUT OF BOX STOCK, no OC, XMP/DOCP, NOTHING. Clean install of windows with all latest drivers.

So I have just recently purchased the Pixio px277 144hz 1440p IPS monitor and I have been experiencing some difficulties. After about an hour or 2 of hardcore gaming, my monitor will go black for about a second and then come back on. It wont do this again for like 10 minutes then it will become more and more frequent to a point where it becomes un-useable(20 times a minute). I originally was using the DP cable that came with the monitor and then I switched to a HDMI cable that came with another monitor and the problem continued to persist. I updated my graphics drivers and the problem still continued(however seems to be less frequent). Im thinking that womething might be overheating. My GPU is hitting about 82°C(176°F) under full load however where the cable plugs into the graphics card reaches about 60°C(140°F)(im guesting). Also the powersupply for the monitor is located in the monitor, and when this happens is usually warm to the touch especially around where the cables are plugged in. PC Specs: Asus Gtx 1070 founders edition Ryzen 5 1600 8gb vengence ram 100gb ssd(does not contain the game files, only for the OS) 1tb and 500gb hdd Msi b350 motherboard Corsair CX600M (Nothing is overclocked)

Issue: So, I was using the PC normally when suddenly it went to black screen, the monitor still says it is connected to HDMI. However it is only displaying a black screen. When I reboot, no BIOS screen, no display. The monitor went from connected into 'No Signal'. I tried rebooting and unplugging and plugging back the HDMI cable into the monitor and my graphic card's HDMI port. It will show connected to the HDMI port, but display a black screen. The motherboard still posts a single short beep which means normal to me. However after around 30 seconds, it beeps a normal beep. I have tried removing and inserting the graphic card and tested the HDMI cable and monitor by plugging my laptop into the monitor with the HDMI cable. Both the cable and monitor are working fine. However, I now don't know whether its the motherboard or the graphics card problem now. System: Motherboard: Asus Prime A320M-K CPU: Ryzen 3 1200 GPU: ASUS Cerberus GTX 1050TI-04G RAM: Kingston FURY Memory Black - 8GB Module - DDR4 2400MHz CL15 DIMM (HX424C15FB2/8) BIOS: Version 4011 (Up to date) OS: Windows 10 Pro 64-Bit Monitor: BenQ GW2470HL What I have tried: Rebuilding the entire PC, taking out everything and rebuilding it.

I was just watching a twitch stream on one monitor and googling shit on the other monitor and my monitors randomly went into sleep mode, i turn them off and on and it doesn't work. Fans start ramping up and I'm pretty sure it's not GPU fans because this happened multiple times in the last 3 days so I put my fans to 100% to see which fans are ramping up and it turns out it's either CPU or case fan. I can still hear audio while both of my monitors go black and I have to restart my PC. I read a few threads regarding this issue and people are saying it could be a PSU issue, either loose cable or just a bad PSU. The one I'm using is CX550M which I thought was pretty good even on the PSU Tier list. It's only 13 months old and my GPU is 1060 Gigabyte 6GB version and it's 10 months old. While writing this my PC shut down completely, no fans ramping up just clean shut down and I couldn't turn it on before putting PSU to 0 and back to 1. Please help it appears this will only happen more often (2 times in the last 20 minutes already).

Basically, I panicked when I saw some ASUS motherboard BIOS screen and turned the laptop off. Now the laptop turns on but the screen never turns on. Laptop is ASUS GL553VD. Any suggestions?

Hello, all. I'm new to this forum/community, but a friend of mine recommended it highly. It seems that I've encountered a problem on my Windows 10 Lenovo laptop. I'm able to sign in, but the desktop will not load. I've tried many methods to fix this... But to no avail. I'm not the tech-iest of people, so I'm a bit clueless as to what I should try. Important notes and peculiarities: I've tried taking the battery out, holding the power button for a few seconds, putting the battery back in, and starting again. Sadly, that didn't seem to change anything. I am able to run Task Manager. (Through Task Manager, I'm able to run Command Prompt, and then I can run Chrome through there. And that's how I'm posting this. It's a layered process.) I can't seem to run Explorer.exe, nor does it appear to be already running. I've heard some people say that pressing the Windows key + P can sometimes fix this issue, but it didn't for me. I tried updating my NVIDIA driver and restating, then I tried disabling it and restarting, neither worked. I tried entering Safe Mode, but it has the same problem! Black screen with only the cursor showing. While trying to troubleshoot, I learned that my computer isn't able to go back to a previous version. Startup Repair didn't work. The Windows 10 Update Troubleshooter didn't seem to work. The login page for Windows seems... Zoomed in slightly? Maybe I'm wrong, but all of the text looks slightly larger. And Task Manager looks like it's in a lower resolution... Maybe it's zoomed in. This seems like it's hinting at something, but I don't know what. I really don't want to have to reinstall Windows. It'd mean I'd lose all of my programs, which already happened to me earlier this year. Thanks for reading. Please, please send any advice you may have.

Sometimes when I run Cinebench CPU test the screen turns black for at few seconds, but it returns to normal and the test finishes correctly. The mouse cursor is still visible but doesn't always respond. My system is 8700k,1080ti, both watercooled and a 750W PSU. What could be causing this?

So I stumbled upon this today and I was wondering why this is happening; System interrupt keeps showing up and such. Please help Thanks!

I've created my first build last july. Lately it's been giving me this annoying issue. Basically I'm playing some games such as overwatch or gta v and out of nowhere the pc gives me a black screen and restarts with no BSOD or any warning whatsoever. I'm pretty sure this only happens with games and demanding tasks, I've never had this sort of crash while browsing the web yet. I have not overclocked anything. Here's what I've tried so far: Updating the gpu drivers Uninstalling the gpu drivers with DDU and installing a stable version Resetting the BIOS to default settings Clearing the CMOS using the jumper I was thinking about returning both the mobo (which has 2 fried usb ports) and the psu to solve the issue. Do you have any other idea why this is happening or what to do? Thanks in advance