Every time I launch a game on my pc both my monitors go black and I can still hear sounds but I can't see anything it started about a week ago and it would only do it every one in a while but today it just started to do it in every game and sometimes in Google when you play a YouTube video I just updated all of my drivers and I have a and fx 8350 8gb of ram an and r9 290 and a 600w power supply
Uhhhhhhhhhh Try Reseating the Videocard, and Cleaning it (maybe its a heat problem?) Try reseating the Ram as well (just to be sure). If your screens go black but the pc is still working (When the video thing happens) you can still hear sound, or its a total crash? If your pc is still running (like i said, sound comes out from it) Then you have a Videocard problem. If you come out to this conclusion, Try 3 things: 1. Roll back to older drives, Try ones from a month ago or something like that 2. Do the reseating and cleaning thing 3. Take out the Videocard and use the integrated from the Processor (Fx chips come with one as well, right?), and see if that works.
Similar problems, earlier in the day my PC froze, and went black on both montiors, and i heard 2 beeps. Then my main stayed black but 2nd came back. But i could still use Alt Tab and see it pop on the main monitor, so i fake restarted and both came back. Restarted and everything is slow and laggy
Not true really, they have improved massively in the last couple of years. Both nvidia and AMD drivers are pretty on par now. As for a fix maybe try reinstalling windows or running it from another hard drive to see if that fixes issues, thats usually the first thing to go wrong in my experience.
Well... It may be true. I had a 6770 and it was a box of fun with the drivers. Blackouts and screen glitches when on the menu Daily.
Ok so I took my gpu out and it blue screened right after I logged it and now when every time I boot it blue screens right when I try to login
Put it back in. Reseat it, not take it out and hope it works. If you wanted to take it out, you need to uninstall its drivers.
A bad display driver installation will do this, so will a power supply on it's last legs. Use another computer to download DISPLAY DRIVER UNINSTALLER (DDU), it's available under GURU3D's downloads section, video card utilities or drivers sections. Put it on a USB stick, boot affected PC in safe mode and run it and wipe out the display drivers. If PC does not boot while in safe mode, or you have used Display Driver Uninstaller, then reinstalled NEW drivers and it still crashes... consider removing the computer's ATX power supply and putting a known-good or new one in, to test the machine, a failing PC power supply or one that's just really old will get gradually weaker over time if it does not just go out for good with a bang. EVGA sells a good CHEAP power supply that will put out power that won't murder your system, and has short-circut and over-current/over-power protections, for dirt cheap on Amazon. Seasonic is one of the best names if you want a super-duper good one.
It doesn't seem like my power supply I have a evga 600B but my r9 290 does use 430-500 watts my cpu uses around 110 to 150 so ya that could be it, should i pick up another 8gb stick of ram so i have 16 gb
While drivers can cause this issue as well (a black screen definitely)... If you tried the replace-the-drivers by eradicating them (with DDU, above) and it didnt work... I would try a spare HDD or SSD to install a fresh copy of Windows to try it out BEFORE YOU SPEND $$$! This way you CAN BE SURE it's not drivers or something else! If you take your regular daily-use C: drive out of the machine while installing the temporary one to test a new Windows installation, it won't mess up the boot loader on it, so if it doesn't solve the issue, you can revert back without losing your software, data, and settings. You can always put your old (normal use) c: drive back in later if trying this doesn't change anything. Powersupply issues: Voltage will droop under heavy load, when the power supply is at or near it's max, and being hotter in summer months, will put it under more strain. Consider under-clocking your GPU temporarily to see if your games start up (this works quite well). Voltage droop can 100% cause a black screen, DC doesn't handle brown-outs well, and providing 99% of the needed power to the chip under load IS NOT GOOD ENOUGH. MSI Afterburner can be used to LOWER your gpu clock by 100~200mhz to see if this helps things any (and then you can lower voltage a notch or two), so if anything that previously didn't start, starts up. This is more a temporary solution than a permanent one by any means, but can buy you time. If taking overclock off the cpu (if you have one!), that will considerably help here during testing, though your FPS in Beamng.drive is most likely dependent on it. Now is a BAD time to upgrade a graphics card - due to market prices right now - I'd wait if you can and just under-clock it until you can get a bigger power supply or a lesser-wattage video card. IF removing overclocking helps, it's either a stability issue caused by the overclock on a power-supply at it's limits, or it could be one of many things... Continuing to push a supply at it's limits can lead to a system-murdering data-losing KA-BOOM, or a fire at worst-case, please DON'T do that too often if you can help it. EX: Putting a 15~25% overclock onto a cpu can increase wattage it takes by 50% under load!!! EVGA makes a good power supply, not the best but it's 'good' enough, though I wouldn't subject it to the highest loads for the longest time. Get a Seasonic if you're going to torture it at it's max wattage, but they're PRICEY. Your video card shouldn't be more than 300 watt, if I remember correctly, without an overclock (and it could even be less, like 250w). Chances are the system will run well enough with an overclocked CPU and GPU at stock, until you can pick up a better PSU. If you bios-modded it to a 390, wattage obviously would go up, only difference between 290 and 390 is core clock speed (slightly better chip yield) and memory speed (better brand/line of memory chips, like Samsung ram instead of Hynix / Elpida).
I do have my gpu overclocked i don't remember what i got it to but used NZXT cam but when I only use one monitor it doesn't happen so i'll just rest my gpu to stock and wait till i can get the money to build a new pc i'll probably this pc as a htpc and watercool it because my gpu is sooooo loud
Well if it's doing it with dual screens, just use single-screen while gaming. That sounds like a cheap and reasonable solution, in all honesty. For what it's worth, I've used dual screens (with different resolution), with this Rx 480 8g and my old trusty still-working 7850 2gb card, and they both seemed to work fine, but occasionally a game would show up on the wrong screen at the wrong resolution (invalid for the screen it showed up on), and it had that type of symptom as a result. Still, that hardware trouble-shooting steps above still stand should you wish to throw money at the problem (if software changes/replacement doesn't solve it).
ya one of my monitors is 1080p and the other one is 1600x900 and I used to have another 1080p monitor but hackers in GTAV made me rage pretty bad and I hit it. I'm trying to get dual ultrawides soon do you think my pc could run them
keep in mind some games don't like monitors that are ratios other than 16:9 and 16:10. Some games REFUSE to run or look oddly stretched.