Screen flickering/turning off

[Richywilson]

Hey everyone.

 

I'm trying to resolve a problem which is causing my screens to blink on and off but the monitors never turn off. This appears to happen randomly, it can be once an hour or I can get it happening lots in the space of 10 minutes then it will be fine for an hour. What generally happens is a quick blink of a black screen off then back on again. If I'm working on a remote server however I get what's happening on the video below:

 

So far I've tried:

• Making sure the plugs are in correctly
• Going to down to 2 and 1 screens
• Checking for updated drivers

I have a GTX 1070

I76700K

z170X-UD3

 

Any ideas?

 

 

 

[TempestCatto]

Can you try different cables and different displays?

[Richywilson]

1 minute ago, TempestCatto said:

Can you try different cables and different displays?

I don't have any spare sorry, I just noticed that my graphics driver, while updated. Updated at roughly the same time the issue started, I'm going to try rolling it back and hopefully that fixes it.

[TempestCatto]

1 minute ago, Richywilson said:

I don't have any spare sorry, I just noticed that my graphics driver, while updated. Updated at roughly the same time the issue started, I'm going to try rolling it back and hopefully that fixes it.

That'd be the next thing I'd try, roll it back and let us know what happens.

[Richywilson]

49 minutes ago, TempestCatto said:

That'd be the next thing I'd try, roll it back and let us know what happens.

No luck I'm afraid, they're still going black for a second then flicking back on. Mate reckons the GPU is failing, not failed but failing.

[Richywilson]

4 hours ago, TempestCatto said:

That'd be the next thing I'd try, roll it back and let us know what happens.

No luck I'm afraid, they're still going black for a second then flicking back on. Mate reckons the GPU is failing, not failed but failing.

 

Looking for opinions before i contract the shop

[TempestCatto]

4 hours ago, Richywilson said:

No luck I'm afraid, they're still going black for a second then flicking back on. Mate reckons the GPU is failing, not failed but failing.

 

Looking for opinions before i contract the shop

Can you try testing the card in a known working system? I would think the card is dying too.

[Richywilson]

6 hours ago, TempestCatto said:

Can you try testing the card in a known working system? I would think the card is dying too.

I don't have any other system I'm afraid. I managed to capture this video showing the issue hitting all 3 screens ruling out a cable issue: 

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[TempestCatto]

1 hour ago, Richywilson said:

I don't have any other system I'm afraid. I managed to capture this video showing the issue hitting all 3 screens ruling out a cable issue: 

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Do you have any overclocks? If so, disable them. Otherwise I'd say your GPU is on its way out.

[Richywilson]

4 hours ago, TempestCatto said:

Do you have any overclocks? If so, disable them. Otherwise I'd say your GPU is on its way out.

No overclocks, the only thing I've done is set up a timer in the bios so the computer comes out of sleep at a certain time every morning. I've just dropped to one monitor and played skyrim for 3 hours with a heavy mod order to stress test the gpu... it showed no issues. I'm confused, i thought putting a load on it would really bring out the problems.

[TempestCatto]

15 hours ago, Richywilson said:

No overclocks, the only thing I've done is set up a timer in the bios so the computer comes out of sleep at a certain time every morning. I've just dropped to one monitor and played skyrim for 3 hours with a heavy mod order to stress test the gpu... it showed no issues. I'm confused, i thought putting a load on it would really bring out the problems.

I would try running a gpu stress test for a long while and see what happens. It could be an intermittent problem for awhile before it actually goes.

[Richywilson]

1 hour ago, TempestCatto said:

I would try running a gpu stress test for a long while and see what happens. It could be an intermittent problem for awhile before it actually goes.

It's now been fine for the past 21 hours, the issue happened once as i was plugging the 3rd monitor into it but only as the plug was going in which caused the error on all 3 screens so perhaps it was a cable problem after all? I'll run the stress test tonight, are there any you recommend? 

[TempestCatto]

Try https://benchmark.unigine.com/heaven

 

It's a loss for me how it's behaving. But be sure to monitor usage and temps.