Computer display not working properly

[Grathlem]

About four days ago my self-made desktop computer blue screened out of nowhere. When I restarted it there was no display on the monitor, so I tired again, and this time I got the display to work. After logging in I started checking to see if I could find out what the problem was (I had no idea what I was doing) so I started the Windows Experience Index to rate my computer. As this was working the display suddenly stopped working again. Since then I have tried clearing the CMOS and booting in safe mode, both of which had working displays, but didn't fix the problem. Whenever I run any application or program that would use the graphics card the display stops working. I don't know if this is a problem with the graphics card, or the motherboard, or something else. Can anyone help me with this? Something else I noticed is that only one of the two build in fans on the graphics card was running, but I'm not sure if this is just what it does when it is idling or if this is actually something that is wrong with it. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Computer specs:
ASUS M5A99FX PRO R2.0 AM3+ AMD 990FX + SB950 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX AMD Motherboard with UEFI BIOS

CORSAIR XMS 8GB 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Desktop Memory Model CMX8GX3M1A1600C11

CORSAIR CX series CX750 750W ATX12V / EPS12V SLI Ready CrossFire Ready 80 PLUS BRONZE Certified Active PFC Power Supply New 4th Gen CPU Certified Haswell Ready

MSI R7970 TF 3GD5/OC BE Radeon HD 7970 3GB Twin Frozr OC Boost Edition 384-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 x16 HDCP Ready CrossFireX Support Video Card

AMD FX-8350 Black Edition Vishera 8-Core 4.0GHz (4.2GHz Turbo) Socket AM3+ 125W Desktop Processor FD8350FRHKBOX

TOSHIBA DT01ACA100 1TB 32MB Cache SATA 3 (6.0 Gb/S) 3.5" Internal Hard Drive Bare Drive

 

[i7Baby]

"also how do you start in safe mode? " - F8 - as above.

 

[Tradesman1]

Turn it on and watch the screen, when you get the flash screen for the BIOS, start tapping the F8 key, not super fast just steady, you should get a DOS like screen with options for Start in SAFe Mode or Safe Mode with Networking or Safe MOde with Command Prompt - initially just start in safe mode and see how the system seems to run - if pretty good or at least better and more stable that can narrow down possible problems

 

[Grathlem]

Can you boot into Safe Mode (F8 per http://windows.microsoft.com/en-au/windows/advanced-startup-options-including-safe-mode#1TC=windows-7)

and try a Computer Repair?

and/or a System Restore (restore to last known good configuration)?

Can you do a Checkdisk with Repair on your OS drive?

And a Virus Scan eg Avast and Malwarebytes?

Turn it on and watch the screen, when you get the flash screen for the BIOS, start tapping the F8 key, not super fast just steady, you should get a DOS like screen with options for Start in SAFe Mode or Safe Mode with Networking or Safe MOde with Command Prompt - initially just start in safe mode and see how the system seems to run - if pretty good or at least better and more stable that can narrow down possible problems

when i press f8 it get a boot menu, and the two choices i have are to start using the hard drive or enter the bios setup. I was able to get into safe mod and am running a system restore to the last known stable setup I had.

Edit: I still don't know how to boot into safe mode

 

[i7Baby]

I'm now suspecting you need to take it to a PC shop for analysis. Maybe someone with more experience can do some hands on magic. Maybe show them what we've been through here.

 

[Grathlem]

I'm now suspecting you need to take it to a PC shop for analysis. Maybe someone with more experience can do some hands on magic. Maybe show them what we've been through here.

thanks for all the help. I will bring it into a shop tomorrow and see what they can do for me

 

[i7Baby]

OK. Good luck!