Screen goes black randomly Windows 10

Aug 23, 2018
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Screen goes black randomly, but very often. But the thing is that it does not goes black totally. I can still see taskbar and cursor, also i can hear sound, if there were any, i can move cursor, but if i click nothing happens and it continues for several seconds (usually about 10 seconds)
 
Solution
It is possible that the video card is faulty. You can run out to a local hardware store and purchase a graphics card. Then make use of the return policy when you are finished using it for testing purposes.

No, nothing like this. Several times everything lagged before screen went black, but no messages

 
Does it happen when you are doing anything or just things like playing games doing stressful tasks for gpu? Try to boot into safe mode to see if the issue persists. If it doesn't it might be sth with drivers. For how long do you have this problem?
 

It does not matter what i am doing. Even if i do nothing just staring at screen it can go black
 

I do not see any errors or messages, but I checked my disk with CrystalDiskInfo and everything was fine.

Specs
Processor: Intel i5 3570
Videocard: nVidia gtx 550-ti 1gb
Ram: 8gb ddr3
Disk: some seagate 2tb

I know, it is pretty old, but yesterday it worked well, and now it is doing all this whole evening
 

I tested it for a while, and now screen goes black not so often, but it does not fixed the problem. Also i tried safe mode for about 15 minutes and nothing went wrong, screen didn't go black
 

Ok, you'll have to disable non-Microsoft services and see if the issue replicates. If it doesn't, re-enable them one at a time until the issue replicates. This will help you narrow down what service is causing your black screens.
https://helpx.adobe.com/x-productkb/global/disable-startup-items-services-windows.html

 


Unfortunately it didn't help, so i think that it is really because of my videocard, i just cannot understand why screen goes black partly and i steel can move cursor and see taskbar
 


Download gpu-z and please write here your temperatures in idle and stress (games or furmark test), and after that try to reinstall your nvidia drivers or download the older one, which you can find here https://www.nvidia.com/Download/Find.aspx
 


In idle it is 42C, wuth furmark it went to 86C and then, after a while i got BSOD with MACHINE_CHECK_EXCEPTION. And when I tried to test with game, it just crashed
Reinstalling drivers didn't help too. I did it when problem appeared
 


For this BSOD, try this http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/faq/id-3128617/fix-windows-machine-check-exception-errors.html

Theoretically, your 550 ti is safe under 99 degrees, but practically it shouldn't go over mid 70's so I would suggest you changing thermal paste if you haven't done that in last 2-3 years (but if you don't know how just leave it). What psu do you have?

Also did you try reinstalling your nvidia drivers or installing older one?

Could you test your cpu with OCCT and write here temperatures in idle and while in stress?
 


I changed thermal paste about 3 month ago. I think it is just furmark. For example, on OCCT GPU 3D test my videocard went to 80C from 40C in 5 minutes, while with furmark only in minute and 20 seconds.

I've tried several versions, the newest, the oldest and 2 previous versions, nothing changed.

It's cooerlmaster with 650W