Sometimes when gaming and/or streaming, my two PC monitors will flicker briefly for a moment and then stop detecting the signal from my PC - it'll sit like this for a minute or two while I can still hear audio from whatever I was doing (a YouTube video, the game sound, etc.) and then my PC will restart. It happens sporadically and I'm not sure what the cause could be. I decided to take a look at the Windows Event Viewer and while I didn't pin down the exact time this happened, I did notice a couple `nvlddkm` errors in the logs at around the time this last occurred (about 7 minutes ago). I'm not sure what the issue could be: whether it's my GPU dying, a bad driver, or something else entirely. If needed, I saved the error event logs to my PC and can upload them if it will help diagnose the problem. I did update my GPU drivers around 2 days ago to the latest version so I'm not sure if that could be the cause but I came here for help narrowing down the solution so I don't have to go through the trouble of process of elimination.
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Operating System
Windows 10 Pro 64-bit
CPU
AMD Ryzen 9 5900X 3.7 GHz 12-Core Processor
RAM
G.Skill Ripjaws V 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR4-3600 CL19 Memory @ 1782MHz (20-20-20-40)
Motherboard
Micro-Star International Co. Ltd. MAG X570 TOMAHAWK WIFI (MS-7C84) (AM4)
Graphics
4095MB NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti (Gigabyte)
Monitors
DELL S2721DGF (x2)
Storage
2794GB Seagate ST3000DM008-2DM166 (SATA ) (External Hard Drive)
465GB Samsung SSD 860 EVO 500GB (SATA (SSD))
931GB Samsung SSD 860 QVO 1TB (SATA (SSD)) (OS Hard Drive)
1863GB Samsung SSD 980 PRO 2TB (Unknown (SSD))
Power Supply
Corsair RM1000x (2021) 1000 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply
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