Can a bad display port cable cause a system lock up audio loop in games ?

[John Floyd]

Sometimes when I turn my computer off and start it back up my computer will turn on with a BSOD.
It's very rare but happens.
It also sometimes when turning it on, Turns on for a second then shuts off right away.
Almost like a short?

This happens sometimes but not always, and only in video games.
My computer will Freeze and the audio will loop or They system will stutter for just a fraction of a second and the audio sounds like it's in slow motion / stuttering.

But eventually after it dose these things a few times or maybe just once or none at all.
If it just has a good start up, and I leave the computer on its totally fine for weeks on end.
Until I shut it down again.
Could this be caused by a bad display port cable. It seems this never happened before until I replaced my original one that came with my monitor.

It could broken when I had my monitor and computer on the floor cleaning and My foot got caught on it.

Also note: I'm running SLI 2 980's and have tried putting the display port on both cards. Just in case the port was damage from getting ripped out.

If anyone can help or give ideas that would be great.


I will chose a best answer

 

[weberdarren97]

Since it's such perfect timing that that's started happening right after potentially damaging the cable, I can see how you can identify the cable to be at fault, but I don't think that a faulty cable would cause all those problems, unless you're sending audio over the DP cable as well... I'm assuming that you're using a 3.5mm jack to connect speakers to your system, but if you're using Audio Over DP, then I could see a faulty cable causing audio issues, but not the BSOD stop errors.

 

[John Floyd]

I want to say its a driver or bio's problem. Maybe I should try a different video card bios ? It is dose not seem consistent enough to point to hard ware. because when it works if i dont turn it on it will work for weeks with no problem.