Okay this is extremely weird and I have no clue how to even start trouble shooting it. I have an RTX 2080, with a 1440p 144hz display. For the past few weeks, during game play, while also watching content on my second monitor (YouTube), my screen will randomly flash black for just a moment, as if the display was disconnected and reconnected, and my game crashes (some of them can recover but most don't). Along with this, all apps I had open (steam, discord, etc...) will be completely blank, like in Steam for instance, I can see the top bar, with Store, Library tabs etc, but there will be no content under any of them, just a blank screen. I have to restart the app completely to get it to display again. Maybe the weirdest part is that Chrome does stay open, but completely freezes.
Even the Windows icons do not react when I mouse over them, though I can still close it. I then have to go into task manager and end the chrome process to be able to relaunch and pick up on my video. It's worth noting that I play all my games in borderless fullscreen, and when the black screen happens it kind of reminds me of alt + tabbing out of some wonky fullscreen games, if that makes any sense. The black flash does also carry over to my second monitor, I believe, but I haven't paid too much attention so I'll double check and edit this next time it happens.
I don't know how to diagnose this problem, whether it's my card, display, software, or even a power supply problem, though I figured if it was a psu problem I'd probably just be sent into a reboot, right? I have done a clean install of Nvidia drivers, but that hasn't helped. Any help with diagnosing this problem would be appreciated. Thanks. If you need any more information or something explained better please just ask.
Edit: To add to this, the videos in this post are very similar to what happens to me, though mine usually happens randomly when watching a video AND gaming, usually 30 + mins into a session.
Even the Windows icons do not react when I mouse over them, though I can still close it. I then have to go into task manager and end the chrome process to be able to relaunch and pick up on my video. It's worth noting that I play all my games in borderless fullscreen, and when the black screen happens it kind of reminds me of alt + tabbing out of some wonky fullscreen games, if that makes any sense. The black flash does also carry over to my second monitor, I believe, but I haven't paid too much attention so I'll double check and edit this next time it happens.
I don't know how to diagnose this problem, whether it's my card, display, software, or even a power supply problem, though I figured if it was a psu problem I'd probably just be sent into a reboot, right? I have done a clean install of Nvidia drivers, but that hasn't helped. Any help with diagnosing this problem would be appreciated. Thanks. If you need any more information or something explained better please just ask.
Edit: To add to this, the videos in this post are very similar to what happens to me, though mine usually happens randomly when watching a video AND gaming, usually 30 + mins into a session.
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