Monitors turning off/losing signal while gaming

[doinurmop]

So this has been happening for about ,I'd say a few weeks now, and dear god is it a hard issue to replicate since it seems so fucking random.  Basically when playing games, my monitors just, shut off and lose signal. And in order to use my pc again, I have to restart it. yet I can still hear the audio from my speakers usually fine. No buzzing noise coming from my pc or anything. So far this has happened on Unravel, L4D2, SIMS 3, and a few other games. But that makes me THINK.

Since I've noticed a trend, when these crashes,  seem to happen after my GPU has been on 76 Celcius for a while? As from the little log I'll include, as ive been constantly logging with OpenHardwareMonitor, it seems to plummet back down to a normal temp each time. But if it was that, why the fuck would it crash on games like SIMS 3 and L4D2? I can handle way more intensive games with literally no issue like that (again the crash is random, but still I'd expect it more often if that was the issue)

 

I'm kind of out of ideas, I'll include the log and my specs down below.

 

CPU: I5 4690

MOBO: ASUS H81M-E

RAM 8GB CORSAIR VENGEANCE

GPU: SAPPHIRE DUAL-X R9 270X OC

HD: 1 TB WD BLUE HDD (X2)

PSU: By memory CORSAIR CX600

 

If there's any more specific information needed, I'll do my best to provide.

It is a rather old rig by now, had it many years, could just be giving out.

 

What I've tired so far: stressing out the GPU all the way to over 80 celcius with furmark. Didnt replicate the error

 

Reinstalling the AMD drivers. Did nothing.

 

EDIT: It seems my suspicions were correct. it was my GPU, as it fried the other day.

 

OpenHardwareMonitorLog-2017-08-23.csv

 

 

Edited August 27, 2017 by doinurmop
Solution

[Dujith]

You might want to check / replace / test the cable. Be it DP or HDMI.

Cables can be a bit wanky and this sounds like a cable issue since you can hear the game going on.

[doinurmop]

Just now, Dujith said:

You might want to check / replace / test the cable. Be it DP or HDMI.

Cables can be a bit wanky and this sounds like a cable issue since you can hear the game going on.

It'd be weird if it were a cable issue. I'd expect it to happen in more than just games if that were so.

[Dujith]

1 minute ago, doinurmop said:

It'd be weird if it were a cable issue. I'd expect it to happen in more than just games if that were so.

Maybe, but no harm in testing that. Simple enough to do so

[doinurmop]

Just now, Dujith said:

Maybe, but no harm in testing that. Simple enough to do so

Yup. I don't think I have much more DVI or HDMI cables I can use to replace. I can look around though.

 

In order to test/check them, what would you suggest I do, to be sure?

Never really had to do so in terms of monitor cables.

[Dujith]

Just play i guess. You could do a stress test like furmark with the old cables and see if you replicate it.

Then redo with a new cable.

[doinurmop]

6 minutes ago, Dujith said:

Just play i guess. You could do a stress test like furmark with the old cables and see if you replicate it.

Then redo with a new cable.

I'll try the fumark stresstest. And see if I got another hdmi cable ,and possibly DVI. or maybe disconnect my mother monitor to use work with the HDMI.

 

Once I get the chance to try that all out, I'll tell ya.

[doinurmop]

29 minutes ago, Dujith said:

Just play i guess. You could do a stress test like furmark with the old cables and see if you replicate it.

Then redo with a new cable.

Haven't tried with a different cable yet, but with furmark, I left it running (with my supervision ofc) for about 10 minutes with fur effects on and the background thing combined of course, on 1920x1080p 8X anti-aliasing.

The max it reached was 76, but remained stable around 75. It started to go ABOVE 80 when using POST-FX, but even leaving it on that for a bit didn't cause it to crash at all.

 

So by that, the issue hasn't been replicated

 

[doinurmop]

Ended up being my gpu, dead now. Ti's solved.