[Windows 10] PC randomly goes to black screen and only comes back after reboot.

[Bimmylarter]

My friend has this problem where at random times or when something intensive is running it cuts to a black screen. The sound remains for a second but the goes away. In power saver mode it takes longer for it to crash though. I read that it could be ram, gpu, or psu. We looked through Windows Event Viewer and found this warning
Display driver nvlddmkm stopped responding and has successfully recovered.

every 3 or so seconds while his screen was black. He has a Nvidia Geforce 660, it ran at about 40 c when it crashed I don't think that's enough to crash it due to overheating. If anyone has any ideas that would be helpful!

Oh one more thing. Before switching to Windows 10 this did not occur, it was only slow opening certain programs.

 

[M3C4NiX]

My friend has this problem where at random times or when something intensive is running it cuts to a black screen. The sound remains for a second but the goes away. In power saver mode it takes longer for it to crash though. I read that it could be ram, gpu, or psu. We looked through Windows Event Viewer and found this warning
Display driver nvlddmkm stopped responding and has successfully recovered.

every 3 or so seconds while his screen was black. He has a Nvidia Geforce 660, it ran at about 40 c when it crashed I don't think that's enough to crash it due to overheating. If anyone has any ideas that would be helpful!

Oh one more thing. Before switching to Windows 10 this did not occur, it was only slow opening certain programs.

 

[M3C4NiX]

DP CANNOT DO 144 HZ. if Nvida Control Panel changes it for you please change the Hz to 60. Otherwise whenever you start a game your will get a black screen with sound which you cant escape unless you reboot the computer. You can't ALT+Tab or ALT+CTRL+ Delete to get yourself out.

The only way i was able to fix it was use a hdmi cable to utilize 144hz or just stay at 60 HZ.

Found out there allot of new GPU Cards that may do this when updating drivers via the Nvidia Control Panel. There are probably a whole bunch on this forum that are having the same problem.