Display crashes in games causes computer to freeze/reboot

kevinwOw

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card: MSI GTX 970

Hello,


I've recently come across a very frustrating issue that has brought me to my wits end. For around 25 days, the computer I built has been functioning perfectly. Suddenly, yesterday morning my display and computer crashes while playing CS. I rebooted, loaded back in, and it crashed. Tried again, crash.

The problem occurs randomly. Sometimes it crashes as soon as I load up into a game. Sometimes I can play for 5 minutes before it crashes. Sometimes 20 minutes. Last night I was going for 2 hours before it crashed. What happens is the display will cut off and I get a no signal message from my monitor, at which point one of the three happens

1. BSOD like crash where the sound glitches out, of course my screen is black and there's no error
2. I can hear the game sound playing normally in the background but the computer is not responsive
3. Computer straight up reboots

This problem is so frustrating because I have no idea how to troubleshoot it. No crash dumps are saved (either on windows or WhoCrashed) and no critical errors in the reliability history.

I've stress tested my CPU, video card, and memory, and no problems occur. No high temps, no crashes, no low frames, no errors. The problem never occurs outside of a game, and the video card works fine in stress tests and normal computer use. It hooks up to my monitor and displays 144hz just fine.

I've tried formatting, not installing windows updates, installing windows updates, cleaning out all drivers with DDU and reinstalling them, changing around some BIOS settings, setting them back to default, reseating my video card, and nothing has worked. Needless to say I'm extremely frustrated.

Anyone have any experience or advice? Anything will be appreciated
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. Thanks in advance.

Specs:

Intel Core i5 4590

4GB x 2 G.Skill Ares

Gigabyte H97M-D3H

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

1TB Seagate HDD/240GB Chronos SSD

Corsair CX750M
 
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My Computer

System One

  • OS
    Windows 8.1 Pro
Ummm...what's CS ? One thing out of all great details given, you abbreviated the troubled game.
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    Windows 10 Pro 64bit
    Computer type
    PC/Desktop
    System Manufacturer/Model
    CyberPowerPC Gamer Xtreme 1502 (GX1502)
    CPU
    Intel Core i7 5820K 3.30 GHZ 64 bit 6-Core Processor
    Motherboard
    Gigabyte GA-X99-UD3
    Memory
    G.Skill 16GB Quad Channel DDR4-2400MHZ
    Graphics Card(s)
    EVGA GeForce GTX 970 SSC ACX 2.0+ DDR5 4GB
    Sound Card
    Creative Sound Blaster ZxR 5.1
    Monitor(s) Displays
    ASUS PA24Q 24" Pro Art IPS LCD/LED Backlit 1920x1200
    Screen Resolution
    1920x1200 16:10
    Hard Drives
    SAMSUNG 850 EVO 250GB SATA 6Gb/s 2.5" Internal SSD,
    Crucial MX100 512GB SATA 6Gb/s 2.5" Internal SSD,
    WD WD10EZEX-00RKKA0 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 3.5 Internal HDD
    PSU
    EVGA SuperNOVA 750 G2 750W 80 Plus Gold Full Modular
    Case
    AZZA Cosmas Black Gaming Case
    Cooling
    Cool Master Hyper 212 Evo Dual 120mm, ( 2) Noctua PWM 120mm Case Fans (1) Gelid PWM 120mm Blue LED
    Keyboard
    Logitech K800 Illumiated Wireless Keyboard
    Mouse
    Logitech M570 Wireless Trackball
    Internet Speed
    84mbps /94mbps
    Browser
    Mozilla Firefox 41.0.1 / Microsoft Edge/ IE 11
    Antivirus
    Norton Security 2015
    Other Info
    Pioneer BDR-209DBK 16x Blu-Ray Burner, LG 24x Dual Layer DVD Burner,
    StarTech Front Bay 22-in-1 USB 2.0 Internal Multi Media Memory Card Reader,Logitech Z906 5.1 Speaker system

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    Windows 10 Pro 64bit
    Computer type
    PC/Desktop
    System Manufacturer/Model
    CyberPowerPC Gamer Xtreme 1502 (GX1502)
    CPU
    Intel Core i7 5820K 3.30 GHZ 64 bit 6-Core Processor
    Motherboard
    Gigabyte GA-X99-UD3
    Memory
    G.Skill 16GB Quad Channel DDR4-2400MHZ
    Graphics Card(s)
    EVGA GeForce GTX 970 SSC ACX 2.0+ DDR5 4GB
    Sound Card
    Creative Sound Blaster ZxR 5.1
    Monitor(s) Displays
    ASUS PA24Q 24" Pro Art IPS LCD/LED Backlit 1920x1200
    Screen Resolution
    1920x1200 16:10
    Hard Drives
    SAMSUNG 850 EVO 250GB SATA 6Gb/s 2.5" Internal SSD,
    Crucial MX100 512GB SATA 6Gb/s 2.5" Internal SSD,
    WD WD10EZEX-00RKKA0 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 3.5 Internal HDD
    PSU
    EVGA SuperNOVA 750 G2 750W 80 Plus Gold Full Modular
    Case
    AZZA Cosmas Black Gaming Case
    Cooling
    Cool Master Hyper 212 Evo Dual 120mm, ( 2) Noctua PWM 120mm Case Fans (1) Gelid PWM 120mm Blue LED
    Keyboard
    Logitech K800 Illumiated Wireless Keyboard
    Mouse
    Logitech M570 Wireless Trackball
    Internet Speed
    84mbps /94mbps
    Browser
    Mozilla Firefox 41.0.1 / Microsoft Edge/ IE 11
    Antivirus
    Norton Security 2015
    Other Info
    Pioneer BDR-209DBK 16x Blu-Ray Burner, LG 24x Dual Layer DVD Burner,
    StarTech Front Bay 22-in-1 USB 2.0 Internal Multi Media Memory Card Reader,Logitech Z906 5.1 Speaker system
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