Random PC stop and start

Chris.B · January 25, 2021

Hey Guys,

I recently had my 1080 die in my PC. The screen went black but the PC continued to run (could hear audio). Tested by taking the GPU out and leaving it running and the PC didnt crash at all. Purchased a New 3070 and installed it. Has been fine for about 1 week but twice now the screens have cut black for about 10 secs and sound has cut out. The moniters then come back and sound is resumed. i also have a new LG 1440p gamergear moniter. Rest of system specs below:

I7-5820K

MSI X99SLI PLUS

4x 8GB 2400MHZ corsair vengance RAM

1000watt EVGA platinum

running of a 1TB sabrent NVME

CPU overclocked to 4.2Ghz with no heat issues

Tad Bittoomuch · January 26, 2021

Have you tried using DDU to remove the old graphics driver? It's possible that the driver is corrupt, which can persist even through Nvidia's auto-updater, even if you click 'clean install'.

If you haven't heard of DDU (Display Driver Uninstaller) or never used it before, here's how you go about it:

Download DDU from Guru3D. The download links are towards the bottom of the page, just choose the location that is closest to you for the highest download speed. If all the locations are roughly equidistant with respect to you, just pick any of them.
Extract the .zip when it finishes downloading.
DDU works best in Safe Mode, so to enter Safe Mode, click Start -> Power Options -> Restart but hold shift as you do so. This will throw you into the Windows recovery environment. Click Troubleshoot -> Advanced Options -> Startup Settings -> Restart.
Windows will reboot and you'll be presented with a list of possible startup modes that correspond to numbers. Type the number that corresponds to Safe Mode (I think it's 8 but I can't remember off the top of my head).
Windows will boot into Safe Mode, log in and run 'Display Driver Uninstaller.exe' and click 'Clean and Restart'.
It might take a while, and will restart into normal Windows when it's finished. From there you can download the latest Nvidia display driver and run through the installer.

Hopefully that solves your issue