Gtx 970 black screen crash (no signal)

[Emjay86]

Hey guys,

I've had a GTX 970 for almost 2 years and I'm experiencing black screen crashes that I suspect are actually blue screens as when they happen my pc becomes unresponsive and the only way to get the pc working again is to hard restart/reboot.

The crash itself happens only when gaming and it happens only on certain games. At that point I'd understand if it was suspected to be a driver issue. Unfortunately I don't think this is the case as I have rolled back to previous drivers, used DDU to clean install them, I've even done a clean install of my entire system and I'm still getting the issue. I've changed PCI slots and I've even gone back to usibg my old GPU which stopped the crashing.

I feel at this stage it's a dodgy card that needs RMAing but before I did I just wanted to check if I've covered everything and I havnt missed something obvious.

If all in doubt however I bought the card from OCUK, it's one of the Galax infinity cards and I'm unsure who or how I would go about setting up an RMA.

Any help would be massively appreciated.

Thanks in advance!

 

[Emjay86]

Ive just checked windows event log after having a crash last night and its got an error stating that my hard disks have been removed, any ideas what this could be?

Ill add this to the general hardware just in case this is an issue with another hardware item (like my mobo!)

Thanks again.