PC is Crashing - screens go blank pc keeps running but it has frozen - sometimes sound loops for X amount of time.
First I suspect my 980ti hybrid as I noticed this time the back plate was very warm - or a driver issue - my PC did have this problem but very rarley - once every 2 months or so,  until the GTX 1080 came out and since then the issue seems to happen more often, as well have noticeable bugs related to bad Nvidia drivers - video playback being corrupted, fix by the last driver update. 

Also seems to happen when there are more GPU intensive tasks - but note this issue has always been there but very infrequent up until recently.

Win10 64bit
4930K - stock clocks with h100i w/ 4 fans
SaberTooth X79
64 GB (8x8GB) Quad channel Corsair ram
980ti hybrid - second version - always 51c or under
2160P monitor with second 1080p monitor
850w Corsair PSU.
Has happened with most sets of drivers since the 1080 GTX has come out - please not I'm not using 1080 GTX drivers! but as a timeline, this seems very odd and lines up.

Also note I have 12+ fans in my rig to keep it all very cool and quite - nothing but the GPU goes past 41C ever - GPU does also benefit from extra Noctua 150mm fan cooling Ram and CPU surround and thus GPU backplate via a Zalman Bracket.


Anything I should check? - I can do fresh install of windows but not until the 22/23rd~ tho the last time wasn't long ago - 1 year?
Also I only have a GT220 PCI-E to test/replace with and have lots of work to do over this holiday period. 

Hi, sorry for the late reply - 

I did the drivers as stated,

Also checked PCI-E power cables, I re-did some on what might have been on the same rail as the rest of the system so I use ones that might use another rail, tho I don't think my PSU works that way, thinks it's a single rail design.

Also use compressed air(low psi) to blow out the rad and other parts of my pc - they were already pretty clean but I did get some dust and did reduce the temps by 2C for the gpu.

But it's still black screening so I go to #3 debug.

Thanks, I'll keep with updated - tho worth noting I've had black screens once every 2 days since posting - not looking good.

Yep it crashed again - had it in debug mode.

It's a Corsair HX 850 - got it when I built my PC around the time the 4930k came out - Also this mostly happens when watching youtube... rarely happens when OR I don't think has happened when gaming, so it doesn't happen under load, OR the load makes no difference  -  I don't game much these days, avg. 1-2 hours a day if that, and all the latest crashes/black screens have been while web browsing.

Haven't tested the voltage, but it seems unlikely if all I'm doing is web browsing right?
Haven't tested PCI-E channels but this card was fine until the GTX 1080 came out - in fact do you all remember when video playback would be corrupted glitchy for the first 2 secs of most codecs?  Which was dodgy Nvidia drivers. I still think it could be drivers, even tho I did a clean install with DDU.

Here's a video: - can't post the link - THIS IS STARTING TO REALY PISS ME OFF it's on YT rLiA9FxBVhI 'EVGA 980ti Hybrid - Blank Screens Problem '


Looks like I'll have to RMA BUT before I do I will check voltages and try the another PCI-E slot, but are there crash dumps? if so where are they stored? any other tips?

Sajin
Crash dumps can be found under C:\Windows\Minidump & C:\Windows\LiveKernelReports. Since you suspect a driver issue try driver (link remove 'cause forum is annoying)

 I'm on win10 64bit - naturally finding those drivers seems kinda hard - another 'win' from Nvidia for worsening CS and general service

Edit: no files in those folder or sub folders - I have folder options set to show all hidden files etc.
Edit2: I'd post links to the results I got - But I can't - makes this whole troubleshooting thing rather annoying - I only get 12~ results that don't go back that far.

mine crashed again, I got a dump this time. so I know what caused it.

in my case, i think i had a combination of things. an older power supply that was being over loaded by too many things plugged into it. so the video card was not getting enough power. I have some slicing software for my 3d printer that is also crashing everything. I'm gonna send a bug report their way so they can work on fixing that issue. 
 
I'm going to build a new machine, but I still want to keep this one relevant for non gaming purposes.

well  2 things   1. windows 10-    2.  dual/multi  monitors..    not hard to see all around the web  these later NVidia cards seem to have issue   [ 2160P monitor with second 1080p monitor  ??  I guess set them to the same 1080p may not be able to sync ]   Google something like  ''windows 10 black screens dual monitors  or windows 10 dual monitor crash ''   or something as like  , plenty out there to read up on
https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/games_windows_10/windows-10-dual-monitor-crashing/99056291-91b3-4fb6-abed-278aec10a194
 
back plate getting warm ? that maybe normal if you look at some reviews that show thermal imaging of the card 
http://www.hardwarecanucks.com/forum/hardware-canucks-reviews/70502-evga-gtx-980-ti-hybrid-review-3.html
 
one more thing with them older platforms be sure you got its latest  bios for the motherboard   a lot need the latest to help support these newer cards 
 
asus - lol    I like how your cpu call 4210 bios  but under the bios page theres no  4210 bios lisrted ..   still 22  listed bios's  makes me wonder how stable that board was to start with  [wow] ???   [my ''LAST'' asus was a sabertooth as well]
 
then I guess you could risk a RMA   if nothing works out  now for my hybrid I still run 355.82 driver on it   I try newer ones but quickly come back to it and stay on it  [opinion] 
 
 

thing is you do see a lot  of 900 and 10 series cards having black screen and multi monitor  issues all over  . 
 
with mine heres the thing   1 computer  one monitor   4 hard drives     now  hard drive 1   has windows 7 fully updated  and all  it  blackscreens when I first boot up   [it just some how turns the monitor off ]   just turn it back on and  alls good all day   just something about first boot or re booting  ????
 
2ed hard drive windows 7  never updated or been on line  [ fresh off the disk install ]   ''0''- issues   same driver  same programs run
 
3ed hard drive Linux mint  -  ''0''  issues 
 
4th Linux Ubuntu   - ''0''  issues 
 
so seems its not the card or the monitor  or the driver  , right  ???     if so then it would do this no matter what I boot to   - just the fully updated windows 7  has issue   nothing else does
 
so was it or is it a windows update in some way the cause   
 
for me its not a big deal cause it does this at start up  and just a matter of turning the monitor back on   and not at any time the rest of the day  after that it seems to be 100% fine  all day   [crazy]
 
like you I tried several thing to fix it but   ????? 
 
good luck 

Looking like it's time to rma.

woke up this morning. one screen was red other was green. rebooted the computer and now the display wont work in normal mode. i can get it to boot in safe mode. i'm wondering if my vision 2 sensor went bad or the drivers dont work with it

installed the drivers and it went out again, I'm probably gonna have to RMA this card. running on the processor graphics now for this system.

I haven't RMA yet on the card, however the OS on the computer was messed up. I built a new machine and i think the 980 ti is still doing the same thing. I need to test it still then determine to RMA or not.

So long time no post - I did a clean format and all seamed good but lately noticed my gpu driver seams to crash and recover maybe? All the desktop icons and start bar icons disappear and re-appear - this happens as often as every 5 mins, can't see anything that lines up in the event log tho. Any ideas?

The PC listed in your first post ?
 
DDU your Nvidia driver, use safe mode with reboot
 
Which Nvidia driver ?
 
Win 10 up to date ?
 
Does it happen with only one monitor ?
 
What kind of cable are you using GPU to monitoer, are they tighr ?
 
 

Same pc from first post - drivers and win10 are up-to-date
Didn't use DDU this time as it didn't help last time.
Haven't done any hardware switching but have pulled out the GPU awhile ago.
Nothing is OC'ed.