My screen is blinking black randomly. What's causing it?

[Burned_Follower]

Ok, I recently got a new PC in the mail from ibuypower.com. It has an i9-10850k for a CPU, 64gb ddr4 RAM, an asus tuf rtx 24gb 3090 for a GPU, and a 1000 watt PSU. This is my 3rd week with this new PC and I'm having an issue where my display randomly goes black for a second, and then I'm back to doing whatever I was doing. The audio doesn't stop when this happens. What on earth is causing this?

When I did a simple google search, google said I needed to update display drivers. I went to device manager and updated anything I could, and I even updated the drivers on my video card via geforce experience. The problem went away for a day, but now it's back. I noticed that it didn't start back up until I started playing Surviving Mars, but now that it's back, it happens no matter what I'm doing on my PC. It even blinked black once while I was typing out this post. Any idea what I should do next?

Also, what's the most efficient way to keep all my devices' drivers up to date? I still fear I have not done that correctly and that may be why my display still randomly blinks.

[KeplersConjecture]

引用自 miscgamerstuff：

When I did a simple google search, google said I needed to update display drivers. I went to device manager and updated anything I could, and I even updated the drivers on my video card via geforce experience. The problem went away for a day, but now it's back. I noticed that it didn't start back up until I started playing Surviving Mars, but now that it's back, it happens no matter what I'm doing on my PC. It even blinked black once while I was typing out this post. Any idea what I should do next?

Don't depend on Windows to update your display drivers. Download the recent nVidia drivers, get DDU. Safe mode uninstall the old display drivers, install the new ones.

[Raoul]

This can sometimes be a bad cable, any chance you could try another?

[plat]

What Windows version are you on? FYI, starting with Windows 2004, it's not possible to update drivers via Device Manager. It goes thru the motions but no driver is actually installed. Optional drivers are found in the Settings App/Windows Updates now.

If you want something done, do it yourself and without the telemetry. I also use DDU in Safe Mode and wouldn't be caught dead w/GeForce Experience-- but that's me.

[Tristan]

U need this and the FREE Version works very good

https://www.iobit.com/en/driver-booster.php

Good Luck

[Burned_Follower]

引用自 KeplersConjecture：

引用自 miscgamerstuff：

When I did a simple google search, google said I needed to update display drivers. I went to device manager and updated anything I could, and I even updated the drivers on my video card via geforce experience. The problem went away for a day, but now it's back. I noticed that it didn't start back up until I started playing Surviving Mars, but now that it's back, it happens no matter what I'm doing on my PC. It even blinked black once while I was typing out this post. Any idea what I should do next?

Don't depend on Windows to update your display drivers. Download the recent nVidia drivers, get DDU. Safe mode uninstall the old display drivers, install the new ones.

Thanks! I wasn't able to do exactly what you said, but it led me to talking to ibuypower tech support and asking them how to do this, and after doing a clean install of my display drivers, the problem has been solved! WOOT.

[KeplersConjecture]

引用自 miscgamerstuff：

引用自 KeplersConjecture：

Don't depend on Windows to update your display drivers. Download the recent nVidia drivers, get DDU. Safe mode uninstall the old display drivers, install the new ones.

Thanks! I wasn't able to do exactly what you said, but it led me to talking to ibuypower tech support and asking them how to do this, and after doing a clean install of my display drivers, the problem has been solved! WOOT.

Nice, glad you got it fixed.

If you want to do it yourself in the future you can just run:
https://www.wagnardsoft.com/display-driver-uninstaller-ddu-
In safe mode and install the nvidia drivers after.

[Burned_Follower]

Just a little update, I discovered this morning that HALF the blinking black had NOTHING to do with my video drivers!

Turns out there were two different blinking issues going on at once. One caused by drivers, and the other caused by temperatures. I noticed the second cause because my PC was blinking at the time. I figured this out due to getting carried away with enjoying Doom Eternal on 4k, 120hz, HDR, for 6 hours straight. First time in a long time I ever played a video game that long lol.

When my RTX 3090 is at the 68-71c range, no blinking, but when it's at the 78-81c range, that's when the blinking starts.

After googling what I can do to get my GPU to run cooler, I decided not to use MSI afterburner to make the fans go faster because they're already spinning at full speed when at the upper 70's. But through googling I've learned that air flow can be a major cause of overheating. ...So I removed the metal back plate on my PC case that really just hides cables that are stuffed and crammed to make the other side of the PC look good. And removing that back plate improved the airflow so much that it lowered the max temps my GPU was hitting by 10 degrees!

Now in the heat of battle, playing Doom Eternal on max everything, my average temps run 68-71 instead of 78-81 and no blinking. WOOT

[_I_]

is the gpu oc'd?
try setting it back to factory clocks

the 3xxx use ecc ram, that can self correct errors, but will hurt its performance when it has errors

overclocking it too far will not cause any problems, just lose performance

[Burned_Follower]

引用自 _I_：

is the gpu oc'd?
try setting it back to factory clocks

the 3xxx use ecc ram, that can self correct errors, but will hurt its performance when it has errors

overclocking it too far will not cause any problems, just lose performance

Is it overclocked? Well sort of, but I'm not the one who overclocked it. The specific GPU that I have is the ASUS TUF RTX 24GB 3090. As far as I know, ASUS make/sell two versions of that specific product. You got one that's labeled "asus tuf rtx 24gb 3090" and then you got mine that's labeled "asus tuf rtx oc 24gb 3090"...at least that was part of the label when I selected it when I was making the custom pc order on ibuypower where I got my PC. I'm assuming that oc means overclock. But that means that ASUS was the one who overclocked it.

If this is the issue, how do I 'roll it back to factory specs' when it was overclocked in the factory where it was manufactured?

[Burned_Follower]

oh and i was wrong about some of the numbers when it comes to temperatures. the way I monitor gpu temps is that in the heat of battle, I'll randomly pause the game, hit ctrl-alt-delete, and in task manager, click the performance tab and it tells me the GPU temperature. Today I got it up to 75c even though it didn't get that hot last night after taking the back plate off.