Windows 10 - Screen randomly goes blank

[Prambler]

Hello,

 

I recently upgraded parts of my PC and have been having issues running Windows 10 since then. At a rather random interval, the whole screen freezes for a few seconds then goes blank. If a video was playing, the audio continues for a little bit and then the whole system is unresponsive and I have to force reboot by pressing the reset button or long-pressing the power button to turn off. I thought it might be a hardware issue and installed Solus OS to ran parallel and it runs like a dream. Unfortunately, my work flow requires windows and I cannot completely ditch the OS quite yet.

 

I tried reinstalling display drivers but AMD only has an executable from which to run an installer but not drivers that can be installed using the Windows' built in device manager.

 

My specs are as follows:

Windows 10 Home

AMD 3300X on an ASUS Tuf Gaming X570 (non-wifi) motherboard

MSI Twin Frozr 7870 2GB

2X8 GB Corsair Vengeance PRO DDR4 3600 MHz RAM (Mobo supports up to 3200 MHz without overclock and my guess is that the RAM is running at an underclock right now)

WD Blue 1TB PCIe Gen 3 NVME SSD (Boot/Windows drive)

250GB Samsung 850 Evo SSD (file storage)

120GB OCZ Agility SSD (Solus OS)

2 TB Seagate 7200RPM HDD

Asus ROG 550W PSU

ASUS PA236 23" Monitor connected by DVI

 

Any help is appreciated!
Prambler

[eeeee1]

probably your gpu

[Cyracus]

6 minutes ago, Prambler said:

I recently upgraded parts of my PC and have been having issues running Windows 10 since then.

 

I tried reinstalling display drivers but AMD only has an executable from which to run an installer but not drivers that can be installed using the Windows' built in device manager.

What hardware changes did you make? (it likely has to do with one of them)

Both AMD and Nvidia release their drivers in that fashion, windows handling their drivers tends to have undesirable effects, at least in personal experience.

[keysbeast]

make sure everything is seated in good. then run a memtest could have a stick going bad also amd cpus like the ram speeds higher go into the bios and get it set higher might clear up the issue too.

[Prambler]

21 hours ago, Cyracus said:

What hardware changes did you make? (it likely has to do with one of them)

I changed everything except storage and GPU when my old Intel i5 2400 processor crashed. Couldn't immediately afford the GPU, so kept it to be changed on a later day. Have had this problem since I had this new config.

 

 

20 hours ago, keysbeast said:

make sure everything is seated in good. then run a memtest could have a stick going bad also amd cpus like the ram speeds higher go into the bios and get it set higher might clear up the issue too.

Will give it a shot and see if it helps!

[Cyracus]

Did you do a clean install of windows? Always recommended to do a clean installation when hardware changes, orphaned drivers can cause plenty of issues

[Prambler]

20 hours ago, Cyracus said:

Did you do a clean install of windows? Always recommended to do a clean installation when hardware changes, orphaned drivers can cause plenty of issues

It is a clean install. The NVME SSD is new and that is what I installed windows on.