[GeForce GTX 970] monitor loosing signal during gaming + unplugged device sound. - Hardware & Software

So, i've recently begun having an extremely annoying issue while playing. It begun roughly one and a half months ago now, but has progressively begun getting more frequent. While playing, suddenly my monitor will go black and say that no signal is detected, at the same time windows will play the "device disconnected" sound, but the pc and the sound and most often microphone still works fine. The only way i found to "fix" that is hope and a pc re-start. Now, originally i fixed this temporarily by doing a completely clean install of my drivers, that works for either a few days or an entire week once, then it begins again. I've also googled around and tried literarily everything i've seen, setting my PCs power settings to maximum performance being one of them. Now, when this begun happening, it would happen within 15-30 minutes of starting a game each re-start until i did a clean install, but now it will usually only happen once a day, or today twice. The diference is that now i will get the message upon start up from windows that it "cannot start display driver" (even though the display driver works), that is usually when this does not happen again that day. It has also so far, with a single exception, happened only after about an 30 mins- an hour after i begin playing, with the only exception being yesterday when it happened a few minutes after starting a game. This has also happened only so far while playing games. There has been two times when the crash has been a bit more serious, once when upon re-start my screen only displayed a very limited black and white color scheme and ran at the lowest resolution possible with like 10fps, which was fixed by a driver re-install, and then a second time yesterday where it said upon PC restart "please reboot and reconnect the graphics card PCIU cable" before the motherboard splash screen even showed up, something which was fixed by simply rebooting. This is getting extremely annoying, and i ask here in hopes to find some kind of sollution as i'm already needing to replace every single component in my pc apart from this and the hard drives, and would rather not need replacing this as well due to current GPU prices; all i know is that this is aparently a semi-common problem with 970s. My specs are as follows: GPU: GeForce GTX 970 (specifically an MSI, and i think it's the OC edition, it's also barely been used for a few months total now) CPU: Intel Core i7-4790K @4.00 GHz Ram: Two sets of 2x 4gb sticks of DDR3 RAM, no idea on the brand. Motherboard: ASRock Z97X Fatal1ty Killer

Try re-inserting the GPU in its PCI-E slot or insert it in another one to see problems still persist. GPU: GeForce GTX 970 (specifically an MSI, and i think it's the OC edition, it's also barely been used for a few months total now) If you have bought the GPU new from the store, you can probably still return it for a replacement.

Due to another issue i got with the PC i can't really unplug it right now, as the motherboard battery is faulty and jammed. The GPU is barely used, even though it was bought a few years ago when there were new, i just never used it since i lived in a place with no room for a proper rig. Come to think of it, this was the second one i got since back then i at first got one where this happened literarily while the PC would just idle as well, so i got a replacement. If memory serves me right i remember reading back then that this was pretty common for OC edition 970s

I have the same issue. I thought it was just me

Also a 970?

yup

Yeah, i've seen people write about this issues all over the place, but so far i've been unable to find a solution that works for me

Make that 3 of us. MSI as well. It's weird though, only one of my monitors does it and for a few seconds tops before showing up as normal.

Someone's mentioned to me a possibility, connect a HDMI cable, not anything else. According to them, 970s, at least his, crashes and fucks with the other display ports. I had a HDMI cable lying around so i will say if this fixed the issue or not, i will know after playing.

Unfortunately I need my DVI for 144hz

Okay, that fix did not work for me, i'm afraid, oh well.