Black screen while gaming

[briblo1982]

After I clean out the dust using the air blower in my computer, I had to flip my side fans over to better airflow. I blew out the dust in the video card but it is stuck in the slot on the motherboard. After playing any game for 15-20 minutes the screen goes black I have to turn off the monitor and back on.
I have uninstalled evga precision. It wasn't doing this before

 

[rwayne]

When the screen goes black does any static come over the speakers? I did something similar one time where I cleaned out my computer and unknowningly bumped the CPU cooler. What I found was reseating the CPU fixed the issue. I know the CPU was the issue because it was really hard to release it from the socket. I think when I bumped the fan it wedged it in tighter than it should of been. May give it a shot. Give it a new coat of thermal paste too while you are at it.

 

[briblo1982]

When the screen goes black does any static come over the speakers? I did something similar one time where I cleaned out my computer and unknowningly bumped the CPU cooler. What I found was reseating the CPU fixed the issue. I know the CPU was the issue because it was really hard to release it from the socket. I think when I bumped the fan it wedged it in tighter than it should of been. May give it a shot. Give it a new coat of thermal paste too while you are at it.

 

[briblo1982]

No static comes over the speakers. the game plays like normal. It randomly happens like between 15-20 minutes of gameplay. It seems to do on any game I play. Can a video card get damage when it's stuck in the slot. I'm using the displayport connection because on my monitor I have 2 hdmi ports that are being used for playstation 4 and xbox one.