Monitor turning off for 5-10 seconds in all games.

[bogroll123]

Hey, my PC specs are as follows,
GTX 580, I7 960 (none are oc'ed) 8GB RAM, TX650 Corsair PSU, Benq XL2420T Monitor.

I've had this PC for roughly 5 years now and it has been great, but the past 2 weeks I've been having an issue in all games where the monitor randomly turns completely black for 5-10 seconds and then returns back to normal. When the monitor is black, usually the sound carries on as normal and I can hear everything but sometimes it "glitches" out and sounds a little fuzzy and cuts out when the monitor is off, then returns. It can happen sometimes multiple times within 5 minutes, but other times it can go 1 hour + without happening once.

I've updated my graphics card driver to the latest and this didn't affect anything. Currently, the only game I play is CSGO, and nothing else at the moment interests me so I want to avoid building a new PC.

Advice appreciated, ty.

 

[BaroUK2]

Are you loosing total power to monitor or are you loosing signal from graphic card?

 

[bogroll123]

Are you loosing total power to monitor or are you loosing signal from graphic card?

Signal only.

 

[bogroll123]

Any suggestions people? I'm guessing it is either PSU related, or GPU related.

EDIT: Just started CSGO today, and lost signal almost seconds after launching it,my music glitched out and stopped completely in my headphones. Signal did not return to monitor (power lights were on but could not find signal to card) had to reboot my pc for it to return.

Could it be the dual link dvi cable or is this really unlikely?

 

[bogroll123]

Right, can no longer play any game as as soon as it launches it loses signal and doesnt turn back on until a reboot.

Update: This time when I turned my pc off by the switch and turned it back on a message came up saying post error occurs, cmos checksum error occured and then it gave me a list of 5 profiles and I selected "Last known" and PC now booted up. I then turned my PC off again and reseated my graphics card, I also swapped the two 8 pin connectors on my graphics card around (not sure why) and CSGO now loaded up without turning off.. hmm.

 

[zophiel]

you must not have pushed the power in right first time then?

 

[BaroUK2]

Yea seems like cmos reset itself and mind you clearing cmos helped me too, i had an issue with my HD7950 where i had to downclock to half speeds to keep it stable and couldnt fix it regardless what i tried until i cleared motherboard cmos. So your issue could be similar, hopefully its fixed now....

 

[bogroll123]

Yeah, will see how I get on, so far so good. Power didn't seem loose at all or the card. Thanks guys