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Odd issue; Black Screen, no HDD activity
So starting yesterday, I began to experience this odd issue, it started after a session of GTAV with a friend, my monitor went black and no sound was coming from my headphones, and looking to my case, there was no HDD activity as well.
The second time it happened was an hour later after I left my PC to idle for around 15 or so minutes, came back to find no picture after moving the mouse around and no HDD activity.
And the third instance just now, when I returned from making myself a meal, found the monitor in the 'off' state like it had done the previous two times after loosing picture and no HDD activity.
CrystalDiskInfo shows nothing, Event logs only shows the unexpected power loss from me doing a hard reset, no signs of anything overheating, Malwarebytes finds nothing, and nothing has changed for roughly a week before the problems began to occur. I'm pretty worried given I've barely scrapped money together to make this thing the way it is.
Anyone have any idea where to look next to solve this issue?
Update 1: Had it happen again whilst watching Youtube. Video cuts out, no more sound, no HDD activity, rebooting has no issues and no BSoD message that usually pop's up after a BSoD.
Ran a ChkDsk on my C drive, waiting to see if the issue recurs, still looking for suggestions as Google isn't coming up with anything.
Update 2: Problem happened once more with same symptoms whilst simply having FireFox open. PC with issues currently off and now reporting from laptop.
Update 3: Reseted RAM modules and switched occupied slots while I was at it. Also cleaned and reseted GPU and inspected card, no abnormalities found.
Inspected motherboard as well. No abnormalities found.
Proceeded to dust out unit with compressed air.
Unit currently booted into Safe Mode.
Update 4: Unit has held in safe mode for an hour without issue, considering issue may be driver-related which oddly enough shouldn't be the case since they haven't recently been changed, but not ruling out other possibilities either.
Last edited by PwnFrnzy; 02 Feb 2016 at 18:29.