Black screen of death please help!

[ifreestylin]

On windows 8.1, while playing battlefield 4. My monitor would just say signal lost and i have to hard reset my PC. Recently update to windows 10 and now I just get a black screen regardless if i'm gaming or not.

Playing BF4 last night and i went from 200 frames per second to 40 that my screen went black with no sound. Same thing happened when i was just in TS3 with some friends talking then all of a sudden i could.t open the start menu then my PC locks up then my main monitor went black.

Ran memtest86 last night for 7+ hours with no error.
Anyone had a similar problem to this?

 

[ESPclipse]

BlackSOD is commonly associated with graphics software, maybe even hardware (though less likely). The most popular remedy is to clean-reinstall graphics drivers (with something like DDU) and to avoid overclocking/overvolting. You may be able to pinpoint the source of the crash by looking at your system's crash dumps

 

[ifreestylin]

BlackSOD is commonly associated with graphics software, maybe even hardware (though less likely). The most popular remedy is to clean-reinstall graphics drivers (with something like DDU) and to avoid overclocking/overvolting. You may be able to pinpoint the source of the crash by looking at your system's crash dumps

The thing is, there is no crash dump. Also i'm having high RAM and CPU usage. At times the start menu won't even open and when ever that happens and i try to right click on the desktop to open display settings or personalize it says this "the file does not have a program associated with it for performing this action"

 

[ESPclipse]

Sounds like a pretty bad problem with the OS (or at least with the shell). If you experience problems like this constantly then I ultimately suggest a clean OS reinstall, though you are welcome to try Windows' system file checker and registry repair tools as well. The system file checker can be used on a privileged command prompt with:

sfc /scannow

just in case you have never run it before. I also suggest running:

chkdsk /f /r

which will not only check for bad sectors on a hard drive, but can try to fix corruption and bad paging files. You will probably have to reboot to run chkdsk. If sfc finds any problem, it will try to fix it, else will tell you it could not fix something. If it cannot fix something, that is a good sign to clean reinstall. Problems can also arise from poorly written registry keys, which is why I suggest registry repair software, though this is less likely/less important. Hopefully you can find some fix

 

[ifreestylin]

Sounds like a pretty bad problem with the OS (or at least with the shell). If you experience problems like this constantly then I ultimately suggest a clean OS reinstall, though you are welcome to try Windows' system file checker and registry repair tools as well. The system file checker can be used on a privileged command prompt with:

sfc /scannow

just in case you have never run it before. I also suggest running:

chkdsk /f /r

which will not only check for bad sectors on a hard drive, but can try to fix corruption and bad paging files. You will probably have to reboot to run chkdsk. If sfc finds any problem, it will try to fix it, else will tell you it could not fix something. If it cannot fix something, that is a good sign to clean reinstall. Problems can also arise from poorly written registry keys, which is why I suggest registry repair software, though this is less likely/less important. Hopefully you can find some fix

Thanks i'll try those. If i doesn't fix the problem then I'll just do a clean install of windows 10 and see if that helps.