Question Please need help, Graphics card keeps crashing

[akelx722]

I am looking for any and all insight on this issue that people are willing to provide.

My graphics keep on crashing during random times, but particularly during gaming or fullscreen videos, I think its the graphics card. The display crashes and sometimes it recovers but the resolution is tiny and the only colors are black and white, plus MSI afterburner says that it cannot detect a graphics card after it has recovered.
It seems to crash more frequently when g-sync / v-sync is enabled. I disabled both and it seems to reduce the frequency of crashes but not eliminate them. Also, uninstalling and reinstalling the drivers seem to help reduce the frequency of crashes.

I am using two monitors as well (one is ultrawide with g-sync), could this be contributing to crashes as well?

What I've done already:
Used ddu and reinstalled Nvidia drivers
Switched out ram (slots and sticks)
Switched pcie x16 ports

Specs:
Windows 10 64bit
EVGA Nvidia Gtx1080
G Skill DDR4 3200 2x8gb ram
Gigabyte Aorus Z370
Intel core i5-8400
Various ssds (will provide info but dont think this is the problem)
Corsair tx750w

 

[hang-the-9]

If you suspect the second monitor in the crashes, simple to test. Disconnect the second monitor. If you are running two monitors that don't have the same refresh reate and use different tech, like gsync, I have seen lots of posts with issues in those configurations.

Did you contact the card vendor support to see if they will RMA the card?