Black screen after loading, monitor shows "no signal" message and PC restarts.

itirix

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OS: Windows 7 Home Premium 64bit
Graphics card: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650 Ti 1GB
As I've seen it might be monitor related in other threads, I'll just say that my monitor is ASUS VE228D.

In the last few weeks I've been getting some graphics card errors. Mostly a quick black screen when playing games, that only lasted a few seconds and then the video comes back up again followed with a "Display driver nvidia windows kernel mode has stopped working and has recovered succesfully" message. That happened around once every 4-5 days. Updating to the newest driver seemed to have fixed the problem. However, yesterday while I was playing the video started to get distorted, then black screen with red lines and dots. This obviously seemed as a "goodbye" to my graphics card.
When I started the PC again I chose to start windows normally, got up to the windows loading logo, then the screen went black, monitor displayed "no signal" and the PC restarted immidiatelly after.
Booting the PC up in safe mode worked. So I tried uninstalling my video driver, and PC seemed to boot fine. After that I cleaned the remaining files with Display Driver Uninstaller, did a clean install on the same driver I was using (337.88) and voila it seemed to work fine. Booted up PC, tried even playing my most gfx card power consuming - game and everything worked fine. I tried rebooting again after that to make sure it's fine, aaaand, the PC didn't boot. Same quick black screen again and then the PC tries to reboot. I can still start up the PC in safe mode and if I reinstall my driver the same way I did back there it works fine, but just for one boot, then if I reboot it doesn't work again.
 
Check your monitor cable connections. On the graphics card (or have you put it on the motherboard?) and monitor. Read your card manual and monitor manual to make sure the correct ports are hooked in.

Try another monitor
Try another graphics card
Try another monitor cable
 

itirix

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The thing is, the PC actually reboots when it does the black screen. So it has to detect an error of some sorts. If it was just the monitor, it probably wouldn't reboot, right.