Faulty DVI cable?

[Astraea Kisaragi]

I had a rather weird problem sometimes in games, the monitor simply went black in certain games after loading screens. I needed turn off and switch back by hand.
It happened only in certain games (Skyrim, Payday, Dead Effect, Kane and Lynch 2 - while never in others or in Windows) and even there only occassionally. Had the idea 1st that was my aging Geforce 450GTS, but it happened after I switched to GTX 750 Ti.
My second idea was the power supply, which also was exchanged eventually. Problem still jumped out here and there.

So I switched now to a HDMI cable (gold plated) and problem didn't had shown since.

Can I finally line it out as solved?

[[AU] Tabris:DarkPeace]

Possibly...

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Either bad/crimped cable, not a solid/secure connection on both ends, or the monitor is going bad.

When my dad's 5 yr old Samsung LCD was going bad, it would do this. Only way to turn it back on was to unplug the LCD power cable and wait a few secs. Then plugging it back it would allow it to come back on, but it would happen again later on at random.

Best bet is try a different video and power cable firstly. If still happens try a different outlet or surge protector. After this, then I would suggest trying another monitor w/ DVI on it to help rule out a faulty monitor being the issue.

EDIT:
But since HDMI is working just fine, then I'd have to suspect a faulty DVI cable. Don't crimp or bend such cables, as you can damage the wiring inside. If you need to store a cable away, loop it up in a smooth manner so as to not damage it, but allow a means of saving space, etc. for storage purposes.

[Astraea Kisaragi]

Thanks Bad-Motha.

To say the truth I suspected the cable as well, cause have the feeling the problems appeared after switching to DVI from the classic VGA cable (what monitors are bundled by default) meaning cable was faulty from day 1.
Monitor would be a bad thing to lose , cause is a rather decent DELL screen.

I already had a cheapo HDMI cable at home, but after installing it I got a WORSE picture as by DVI, so I kept the DVI. Now when I went to pick up a printer I decided to give another go and purchased a classy gold plated HDMI cable - Evolveo XXtremeCord HDMI v1.4 -
and had the same bad pic - so I started to question stuff - and found on google, the solution was simply to switch the color scheme from RGB to YCbCr444 in nVidia Control Panel.

And nVidia expect this to be common knowledge? I'm rather good with HW, but this was chinese even to me