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It was working fine, there hadn't been any issues for about 4-5 days when suddenly I was browsing Reddit and my screens said no signal and I had to restart my computer.

 

My graphics card drivers are up to date.

Any other drivers I should check?

 

I don't know why this is happening. 

 

 

 

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maybe it's a faulty cable? do you have any other cables you can use on your monitor to test this?

 

I should mention that I still hear my fans whiring away and all three monitors just die and display no signal.

 

 

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Sounds very similar to an issue I have had for over 9 months now. Because of how certain USB ports react, I think I've narrowed it down to a motherboard PCIe lane defect. Try updating your BIOS, if you're lucky it may fix the issue.

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welp, definitely no cable error then. does the GPU run very hot? that would explain why it only happens after using your PC for a while. (doesn't seem very likely if you where just browsing reddit when it happened tough)

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Sounds very similar to an issue I have had for over 9 months now. Because of how certain USB ports react, I think I've narrowed it down to a motherboard PCIe lane defect. Try updating your BIOS, if you're lucky it may fix the issue.

 

Is there any program I can download which will monitor what the computer is doing at the moment it shuts down? So a faulty usb or something?

 

 

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welp, definitely no cable error then. does the GPU run very hot? that would explain why it only happens after using your PC for a while. (doesn't seem very likely if you where just browsing reddit when it happened tough)

 

GPU is currently at 34c at idle. I had a virtual machine open in the background but that was hardly taxing on it.

 

 

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Is there any program I can download which will monitor what the computer is doing at the moment it shuts down? So a faulty usb or something?

 

Not quite a faulty usb, just another symptom of the same issue. I happened to be in a skype call and in a local multiplayer game the last time my computer "blacked out". The call continued with no issue and the server reported I was still in game. The only thing out of the ordinary (besides losing video signal) was that I could not move in game because my keyboard and mouse stopped working. The significance of this is that my wifi adapter is in a USB 3.0 port while my KB and mouse are in 2.0 ports. With a bit of snooping I learned that Haswell was the first line of CPUs to have an integrated USB 3.0 controller. USB 2.0 on the other hand, is handled by a controller built into the Z87 chipset, meaning it is a motherboard function instead, which makes use of secondary pcie lanes. I'm no expert, and there's only so much information I can find online, but PCIe lanes seem to be the key here. My theory so far is that there is a lesser known defect in the way haswell and the z87 chipsets handle PCIe lane connections. There is documentation online about the problems Haswell has with USB 3.0 yet none of these issues plagued usb 2.0 or the primary pcie lanes so I'm thinking USB 3.0 uses a different form of communication (perhaps some variant of Intel's QPI system) and that's why these lesser known defects were never brought to light. The fact that the Z97 chipset and Haswell Refresh even exists says a lot about Intel's confidence in first gen Haswell. Unfortunately I'm not one of Intel's engineers, so I don't know of any permanent fixes. When my computer starts to act up (because it can go a few months at a time with no problem) my go-to strategy is to clear the CMOS, let the thing sit unplugged for a couple hours, and sometimes slightly nudging the CPU clocks/voltages helps if you have overclocked at all.

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i'll give this one a follow, i have the same issue from time to time. although it seems that when it happenes the usb turns on and off a few times

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