Black Screen While Gaming

[OJ1995]

Within the last few weeks, my PC has had this issue twice, both while playing Guild Wars 2.

The issue: My screen goes black, the PC is unresponsive to anything I press on the keyboard, but the sound from the game continues to play over my speakers.

I recently replaced my CPU/RAM/Mobo, never had this issue like this before I upgraded those components.

PC specs are:
i5 6600 (have heard Skylake has had issues under heavy loads? GW2 wouldn't push it this far though correct?)
Evga 750 ti SC
2x4GB Ripjaws V DDR4 RAM
ASRock Z170 Pro4S
PSU is a Silverstone somewhere around 500W (don't remember anymore, should be enough to push these components though)
OS is Windows 8.1

What is likely the cause of this issue?Is it hardware related or maybe a Windows issue?

 

[theunliked]

Reinstalling your gpu drivers might help.

 

[aquaprofile]

Within the last few weeks, my PC has had this issue twice, both while playing Guild Wars 2.

The issue: My screen goes black, the PC is unresponsive to anything I press on the keyboard, but the sound from the game continues to play over my speakers.

I recently replaced my CPU/RAM/Mobo, never had this issue like this before I upgraded those components.

PC specs are:
i5 6600 (have heard Skylake has had issues under heavy loads? GW2 wouldn't push it this far though correct?)
Evga 750 ti SC
2x4GB Ripjaws V DDR4 RAM
ASRock Z170 Pro4S
PSU is a Silverstone somewhere around 500W (don't remember anymore, should be enough to push these components though)
OS is Windows 8.1

What is likely the cause of this issue?Is it hardware related or maybe a Windows issue?

Is probably hardware. the only driver issues i ever had was my game would freeze for 5 seconds on one frame no matter what OC settings. Something might be defective.

 

[OJ1995]

Within the last few weeks, my PC has had this issue twice, both while playing Guild Wars 2.

The issue: My screen goes black, the PC is unresponsive to anything I press on the keyboard, but the sound from the game continues to play over my speakers.

I recently replaced my CPU/RAM/Mobo, never had this issue like this before I upgraded those components.

PC specs are:
i5 6600 (have heard Skylake has had issues under heavy loads? GW2 wouldn't push it this far though correct?)
Evga 750 ti SC
2x4GB Ripjaws V DDR4 RAM
ASRock Z170 Pro4S
PSU is a Silverstone somewhere around 500W (don't remember anymore, should be enough to push these components though)
OS is Windows 8.1

What is likely the cause of this issue?Is it hardware related or maybe a Windows issue?

Is probably hardware. the only driver issues i ever had was my game would freeze for 5 seconds on one frame no matter what OC settings. Something might be defective.

Which component/s are likely the one/s causing it if you had to guess? How do I even figure out what is specifically causing it? It's only happened twice over a couple weeks, i can't reproduce it at will.

Thanks, OJ