help! random blinking

[CrackheadKyle]

Please Help,

At random intervals I notice my screen blinks black for about a whole .5-1 second at just completely random intervals.

Whether in Firefox, in game, steam, wherever I am at. I find it gets even worse whenever I have to alt-tab. It has been doing this since

Thursday when I logged in. After being annoyed by the blinking I updated from 375.95 to 376.19 in nvidia (I have a GTX 1070). My

Monitor is brand new and I tried replugging HDMI, I made sure PCIE was secure, etc to no avail. I tried going through Task Manager. Nothing. I tried checking

Super Anti-spyware and Malware-bytes. Nothing. Not even a cookie. Do I have to update chipset? BIOS? Revert Nvidia? Reinstall OBS? This blinking is

slowly driving me nuts so I would like some help. Thanks in advance.

[TheGleaner]

Maybe the update messed something up? Otherwise when this happened to me I had hardware failing. 

[CrackheadKyle]

13 minutes ago, TheGleaner said:

Maybe the update messed something up? Otherwise when this happened to me I had hardware failing. 

Highly doubt it. My GTX 1070 is 5 months old and has been perfectly fine. I have proper motherboard, PSU is 650 watt thermaltake. Mobo is MSI m81-e33. CPU is i7 4790k. I highly doubt it. I use HDMI 2.0 for monitor and that has to be fine.

[CrackheadKyle]

Well in March 2017 I am considering a new build anyways but I will reuse some components.

[TheGleaner]

Have you tried other outputs, such as DP, or using the integrated graphics, and referring to the part about the brand new monitor, remember, even with today's technology you still could have gotten a bad one  

[CrackheadKyle]

8 minutes ago, TheGleaner said:

Have you tried other outputs, such as DP, or using the integrated graphics, and referring to the part about the brand new monitor, remember, even with today's technology you still could have gotten a bad one  

I just tried moving HDMI on graphics card and TV so let's see if I get any blinking

[CrackheadKyle]

12 minutes ago, TheGleaner said:

Have you tried other outputs, such as DP, or using the integrated graphics, and referring to the part about the brand new monitor, remember, even with today's technology you still could have gotten a bad one  

ANNNDD That didn't work I'm getting blinking again

[CrackheadKyle]

I have my xbox also hooked to monitor so let's see if it is that.

[TheGleaner]

Have you tried a different cable?

[CrackheadKyle]

2 minutes ago, TheGleaner said:

Have you tried a different cable?

I just tried Xbox and played game, flipped through menus, etc and it didn't blink. So it is down to either the cable, video card or windows. I will try a different cable. I will switch xbox cable to PC and PC to xbox and test both.

[CrackheadKyle]

27 minutes ago, TheGleaner said:

Have you tried a different cable?

Ok after flipping the cables I have determined it is not the cable. As I was eventually able to get the blinking again and not cables and HDMI are switched so it is a matter of video card.  I think attempting on board graphics ports will be reasonable as that will determine if I need to refresh windows or it is a video card issue.

[CrackheadKyle]

1 hour ago, TheGleaner said:

Have you tried a different cable?

Well I have performed a clean installation of nvidia 375.95 so that should help but I could go back to 375.86 if necessary

[TheGleaner]

Did it blink on on-board graphics?

[CrackheadKyle]

1 hour ago, TheGleaner said:

Did it blink on on-board graphics?

The Nvidia driver clean installation worked, No it did not blink on iGPU

[TheGleaner]

So are you issue free now?

[CrackheadKyle]

On 12/11/2016 at 8:10 PM, TheGleaner said:

So are you issue free now?

After a couple of days of simmering. No. I am not. It was problem free Sunday and Monday. Should I reinstall windows? I have been meaning to move it to my SSD anyways. I have probably a little over 2TB of stuff problem is my 2TB External Drive may not suffice for EZ Transfer. Hmm.

[CrackheadKyle]

On 12/11/2016 at 8:10 PM, TheGleaner said:

So are you issue free now?

I have a Zotac GTX 1070 Founder's with a 5 year warranty. Should I contact Zotac?

[CrackheadKyle]

Wait I could use windows refresh heard that has a keep my files option

[CrackheadKyle]

Suspect it was windows as it said it installed stuff December 8th when I shut down my PC, the 9th was when I saw issues.

[TheGleaner]

1 hour ago, Savageiste said:

After a couple of days of simmering. No. I am not. It was problem free Sunday and Monday. Should I reinstall windows? I have been meaning to move it to my SSD anyways. I have probably a little over 2TB of stuff problem is my 2TB External Drive may not suffice for EZ Transfer. Hmm.

I guess you could...

1 hour ago, Savageiste said:

I have a Zotac GTX 1070 Founder's with a 5 year warranty. Should I contact Zotac?

Possibly if it persists 

[AMD Spec]

make a new partition ( a small one ) put an os with latest stable drivers and see 

maybe take a look at the card , smell it to see if sth is fried etc 

 

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Wait I could use windows refresh heard that has a keep my files option