Screen Restart when gaming EVGA gtx 980 classified

[Th3_Snowman]

Hi everyone, recently when gaming I have noticed a weird event that occasionally happens. My display will go completely black, the audio will freeze and repeat a roughly 0.25 second clip temporarily as well but will recover before the video and then the video will recover after about 5-10 seconds with the exact time depending upon the game. The only games I have had it happen in are Styx master of shadows, TF2 and Burnout: Paradise. The time at which it happens can vary from start up in the game to an hour in and from my experience it has never happened more than once during one session of a game. It will happen no matter if the game is fullscreen or not, with vsync running or not, with an fps cap or not. The heat of the card is under 60 degrees when it happens usually, and it doesn't have to be under a heavy load for it to occur. I get no error messages after the black out however the one weird thing is that all of my rainmeter honeycomb icons disappear and I have to refresh rainmeter for them to appear again. My video card is a EVGA GTX 980 Classified with a slight overclock on it using msi afterburner or evga precision x however it still happens with either program or no program running with overclock at all. I have a Corsair HW 650 watt power supply so I don't think power is an issue. I have tried flashing the bios on my Asus Z87 Deluxe to the newest bios but that did not fix it. I have also tried doing a fresh install of all my video drivers but that also didn't help at all. I had owned this video card for several months and had it overclocked for about month before this began happening. I'm kinda stumped on how to proceed fixing this do you guys have any ideas?
Thanks

 

[Geek Jed]

It happens right away or??

 

[Th3_Snowman]

No as I said in the original post, it can as soon as I enter the game or an hour into playing it, also as a note I'm running Windows 7

 

[Xibyth]

There's only 4 things I have seen that can cause this. A borked VBIOS (which is not likely if you have flashed it), invalid instructions being run (I have seen rainmeter cause this), a bad power supply (normally this would happen when ever the GPU enters a high performance state), or a bad GPU (also seems unlikely as there have been no issues). I would suggest, back up your rainmeter scripts and remove it from the system. Test and report results. You can also check your event viewer to determine if something in the OS is causing the issue.

 

[Th3_Snowman]

Alright I'll try this thanks so much for the response