NEED HELP FIGURING THIS OUT!!!!!

[Majillafox]

My GTX 1660 Super has been acting really weird past several weeks. Even today it blacked out and I had to restart in order to get picture back! Its not the monitor because it works just fine on everything! I also, have a small monitor that runs on HDMI so I have that and the DP cable connected (small display not connected at time of blackout) and its getting very frustrating I posted about this a week ago and NO ONE seems to have even taken the time to take a stab at it. Can ANYONE help me figure this out?

[Senzelian]

When a display goes black it usually means that the monitor lost its connection to the graphics card. This can happen because of a bad cable, or a bad port or because of an internal defect with the monitor. Sometimes these kinds of things only happen when gaming for example, or when watching video.

 

Without much information the first thing I'd do is to try a different cable, connector and possible a different refresh rate if your monitor is a high refresh rate model.

Then of course you can reinstall the GPU driver with DDU (Display Driver Uninstaller) and downloading the current driver from Nvidia.

A reinstall of Windows can also help, but that's really a last measure.

 

 

[Majillafox]

Yeah I tried that, and my HDMI port is gone now. I updated my drivers and did a clean install. I've been monitoring my temps and my gpu useage and everything is running within acceptable ranges. I was playing OW2 and it crashed multiple times today while running the game, and again when I tested it another time. I've upped my fan speeds to force more cooling. I've cleaned my card twice, took it all the way out and inspected the thermal pad and its fine. Everything looks good, and I'm worried my gpu is just dying. The cable I'm using is good and so is the HDMI.