Gaming load Black screening

LillySatou · February 3, 2017

Hello,

I've been having trouble with my Desktop computer and I can't seem to find out what the issue is so I thought I'd make a post here and see if someone else has any better ideas.

So the problem I'm having is that my computer "Can" black screen while gaming. Not when the game is starting up mind you, it varies from game to game like when I get into a game of CSGO comp or getting into a game of Siege or playing around in WoW or ESO. Its hard to reproduce the results as sometimes it takes longer or sometimes is happens right away. I'll link below to a twitter post with a video of me trying to play Siege with the computer crashing. It wasn't a black screen but it still froze my computer and made input from the keyboard and mouse disabled. The weird thing is I can still hear audio from discord O_o

MOBO: MSI MPOWER MAX AC z97

CPU: Intel i5 4690k stock

GPU: GTX 980 EVGA Super Clocked

RAM: 16GB of HyperX

PSU: Corsair AX 860 Watt

OS Drive: OCZ Vertex 2 120GB - its been running for around 5 years with a fresh install of Windows 10 in the last month

Drivers: All the latest drivers are installed for MOBO and GPU

Twitter:

Currently I've run stress tests (using Aida64) on my GPU, CPU, RAM and hard drives to see if there is any issues there and from the short testing I've done so far of around half an hour nothing came up. I also sent my GPU off to where I bought it and left it with them for a few days so they could try testing it as well. They also couldn't find any problems with it. I've tried running my GPU in other PCI-E lanes to see if it was just the slot on my mobo that was kicking the bucket but nop still no change. I changed the power supply cables for the GPU along with the port that it was being plugged into on the power supply in-case that was the problem. Still the same results. Its not the end of the world as I have a reasonably good laptop that I can game on but some triple A titles like siege don't really run that well so I'm stuck on what games i can play.

If you have any suggestion as to what i should do or a test I should try feel free to let me know.