Dying GPU or broken drivers?
Sorry about the triple post, but I managed to nail down when exactly the issue happens. I tried shutting down my system multiple times and every single time I booted it back up again, it was working fine, but as soon as I try to use restart instead of shutdown, things break, and doing the Safe Mode DDU clean, reboot and reinstall gets it to work properly again. Can this mean it's an issue with the motherboard or perhaps even the SSD? It's really puzzling me.
As an added note, whenever the GPU is in its 'broken' state, for some reason the Sleep option isn't available on the Power menu.
EDIT
Well, I'm almost sure I fixed it! Did multiples reboots and shutdowns, and all my 3 monitors are working fine on their native res, Heaven Benchmark is working fine and the Device Manager isn't reporting any issues. It was a BIOS problem. I got a friend's monitor with a DVI port (mine is only DisplayPort/HDMI), downloaded Gigabyte's VGA @BIOS tool, downloaded an updated BIOS file from their website (GV-N970WF3OC-4GD F3, I was running GV-N970WF3OC-4GD F2), followed the included instructions, backing up the current BIOS, connecting the DVI cable to DVI-I, flashing the P file, rebooting, connecting the DVI cable to DVI-D, flashing the D file and then rebooting. I also noticed while doing this that the issue wasn't present while using the DVI monitor, but happened as soon as I tried to boot with any of my DP/HDMI monitors, which makes me believe the BIOS was somehow messing with the ports, however, right now I got 2 DP monitors and one HDMI plugged in and I'm being able to reboot and boot up back again without breaking the drivers.
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