Monitor goes to standby randomly

[mynameehjeff365]

Recently my pc did a hard restart while i was gaming. I thought maybe my pc was overheating so i went ahead and cleaned it up including all the fans and my gpu and psu as well. It ran fine for two days after that and now whenever i play the monitor goes to standby and i have to do a hard restart to revive it. I dont think my gpu is overheating as it doesnt go over 60 degrees and my monitor almost instantly goes to standby after launching a game. I've tried using DDU and installing the video drivers again and nothing happened. For making matters worse now it sometimes randomly blacks out even if i have just booted up my system. I dont know what's wrong but i hardly think it's my gpu as it is just a year old. My specs are - Radeon R7 250 1 GB GDDR5 , i3 2100 , 4 GB RAM , 450W PSU. I know i have a pretty outdated rig but i hope you guys'll understand. I am not too intense of a gamer but i like playing some games nonetheless. Any tips/advice would be highly appreciated. Thanks!

 

[smorizio]

if the display only blinks out when gaming then your rig having power problems from the power supply is not holding within atx spec. you can try a test power supply or use a program like hardware info set it for logging and sensor make sure the 12v rail is holding.

 

[mynameehjeff365]

will lowering the power consumption and underclocking help? i dont have much knowledge about voltages and stuff so if you can be a little more specific and i've been using hwmonitor for monitoring temps and stuff

 

[mynameehjeff365]

It was the psu. It was pretty old though and it gave up.