Monitor shuts off during gameplay(drivers crashing possibly?)

[BoyMilk]

today there was a power outage, when I turned my desktop back on windows force updated. I played a few games (project cars 2, and dota 2) and each one crashed about 10 minutes or so in.

from what I can tell if this is a driver crash they never recover. I never get a bsod, the monitor just turns off stating [B]No HDMI signal[/B]. my video card's lights and fans continue spinning and my cpu fan continues spinning. hot swapping wires seems to do nothing.

here are my current components: [t]https://i.imgur.com/laeCb3j.png[/t]

what i'm wondering is if this issue was caused by the power outage, the windows update, or something else failing.

the only thing i'm seeing in the event log is this: [t]https://i.imgur.com/IOj3gTs.png[/t] but I'm pretty sure its from me hitting the reset button on my case because thats the only thing I can do to get my screen back.

[Darksoul]

Boot into safemode and reinstall ALL drivers. If the problem continues try using that intel HD 4000 to see if it's an issue with the nvidia card.

Since the problem only started after you lost power it seems straightforward to me. Power outages can be accompanied by power surges which in turn can damage your equipment.

[BatHands]

[QUOTE=darksoul69;52720761]Boot into safemode and reinstall ALL drivers. If the problem continues try using that intel HD 4000 to see if it's an issue with the nvidia card.

Since the problem only started after you lost power it seems straightforward to me. Power outages can be accompanied by power surges which in turn can damage your equipment.[/QUOTE]

I disagree. He should be checking his memory dumps before that. The system logs don't indicate any driver failures. The BSODs are generating mini-dumps and a large dump with specifics to the problem.

The system registers a shutdown when this happens, that sounds like power failure to me.

OP, use Blue Screen Viewer to analyze the dumps: [url]https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/download/bluescreenview/[/url]

It will tell you exactly what driver caused the failure, if it was a driver.

If there are no driver errors, try a different power supply. I'm assuming your computer runs for longer than 10 minutes if you aren't in a game. If that's the case the game is causing the GPU to draw more power, and at some point it could be trying to draw more than what it has available if the PSU is going bad.

[BoyMilk]

Sorry I didn't update, but I had realized that when I tried to roll back to an older windows update I was told that I couldn't because windows hadn't updated in like 3 months which wasn't possible because I watched the computer update when I turned it on.

So I left it to update for real and I haven't had any problems again.

thanks for all of the recommendations though, if I have problems again I will try them.