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2020/12/30 20:44:45 (permalink)
Hi all,
 
Several times a day while using my PC both of my monitors freeze and the entire screen is just one solid color. The colors are random (most recently one monitor went black and one went green). I can't find a common action to recreate this. I'll be watching a YouTube video, browsing the Steam store, checking email, anything, and this randomly happens. If I have audio going; the audio continues to play like normal. Turning the monitors off and on doesn't fix it. I always have to restart the PC. All software on my PC is up to date and so is all my firmware. I tried the graphics firmware tool as well and that didn't help. Anyone experiencing anything similar? This is extremely frustrating.

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OS: Windows 10 Home 64
Mobo: ASRock Z370 Extreme4
CPU: i7 8700k
RAM: 16gb Corsair Vengeance RGB DDR4 3200
PSU: Corsair RM750x 750W
 
Any help is greatly appreciated.
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    Sajin
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    Re: 1080 Ti FTW3 Screens Freezing to Solid Color 2020/12/30 23:57:14 (permalink)
    Have another gpu to test with, or have another known good working pc to check your graphics card in?


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    Re: 1080 Ti FTW3 Screens Freezing to Solid Color 2020/12/31 12:48:00 (permalink)
    Sajin
    Have another gpu to test with, or have another known good working pc to check your graphics card in?


    Unfortunately this is the only PC I have available to me.
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    Re: 1080 Ti FTW3 Screens Freezing to Solid Color 2020/12/31 12:52:26 (permalink)
    Could take your video card to a local pc shop to have it checked out.


    See my current build here: https://forums.evga.com/My-bench-rig-unlimited-power-m3596024.aspx
    RTX 2080 Ti 4-way SLI?!?!: https://forums.evga.com/RTX-2080-Ti-4way-SLi-set-by-yours-truly-m2954756.aspx
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    atomicfox
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    Re: 1080 Ti FTW3 Screens Freezing to Solid Color 2020/12/31 20:32:44 (permalink)
    It's the nvidia 460.xx drivers, both recent ones have caused all sorts of issues on 1080 cards. Drop back to 457.51
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    AlexisRO
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    Re: 1080 Ti FTW3 Screens Freezing to Solid Color 2021/01/02 10:40:28 (permalink)
    Had the same issue. What helped me was going into Nvidia Control Panel and setting the Power management mode to Prefer maximum performance.
     
    Both 460.89/79 had this issue for me. Something to do with how the cards ramp up when a load is present.

    System: 7820X - MSI X299 Carbon AC - G.Skill 32Gb TridentZ 3200 - EVGA 1080 Ti - 500 Gb Samsung 970 EVO , 2Tb Crucial MX500, 2Tb, 3Tb, 4Tb Seagate - Seasonic 1000W Prime - Creative Sound Blaster Z - Windows 10 Pro 64 - Phanteks Enthoo Primo - Edifier S530D - Acer Predator XB271HU (1440p)

    Watercooling loop: Heatkiller CPU - EK 1080 Ti - Swiftech MCP 655 with EK X-Top v2 - XSPC reservoir - Alphacool 480 x2
     
       
     
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    Re: 1080 Ti FTW3 Screens Freezing to Solid Color 2021/01/02 13:46:20 (permalink)
    It does sound like a driver issue. Rolling back to an older driver may help, just be sure you do a clean driver install if you rollback.


    Have water, will cool. 
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