Computer screen flickered black and white after succesfully showing BIOS

MadSquirrel

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Windows 10 Pro N booted past BIOS then started flickering between black and white, I rebooted several times with no luck.

After flipping the physical power switch(whilst the computer was turned off) and disconnecting the monitor from power, then reconnecting them again. It would boot again and I'm able to write this post here without any problems.

My specifications are:
GTX 970 Gigabyte
Intel i7 4770s @3.1GHZ (has not been OC)
2x4 GB RAM
Motherboard gigabyte z97pd3
Monitor is Samsung S24B150BL
I use a DVI cable

I couldn't find anything on the subject through searches, except one somewhat related thread which suggested there was a storm the night before. All I remember is heavy downfall earlier today, no thunder or anything of the sort.

Hopefully someone could help me figure out what had caused this, I am also inexperienced with deducting anything from the event viewer.
 

MadSquirrel

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Sep 4, 2015
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Thankfully it was a one off event. Never happened again and I'm using my computer near daily.