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Question Fullscreen Crashes PC.

May 2, 2020
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Motherboard: Asus PRIME Z370-P

  • Processor: i7-8700k-CL
  • Graphics Card: MSI AERO GTX 1070 8GB
  • RAM: Kingston Technology HyperX Fury 16GB 3200MHz DDR4


Greetings.

My computer snaps off when using applications in fullscreen.

While almost any application will do, this issue can most easily be replicated while playing games. Within the past hour alone, I managed to trigger the crash with the exact same method twice in a row.

Launch a game in fullscreen. Alt + Tab. Click on game again = Snap! System shorts out as if the power went out.


Would anyone happen to know what may be causing this? I've done my best to look around for other threads concerning this issue, but failed to find any. Can Fullscreen somehow short a system?

It should be noted that there is no Bluescreen, or any kind of error; Power just dies, monitor goes black, lights inside the case darken. Machine reboots roughly two seconds later.