Moniter going black and PC freezing when I load an application after turning my PC on for the first time of the day

redeye277

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Hello, slight problem with my PC. When I load up my PC for the first time of the day or in for the first time in a few hours and open an application such as Chrome or a game, my monitor 9 times out of 10 goes completely black. Sound continues playing until I move my mouse or press my keyboard which then it seems to completely freeze. When I reset my PC at it's power switch it will load up as normal and work perfectly fine. Does anybody know what the issue could be? Thanks.
 
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Hi, stuff like this is hard to answer, as it could be a lot of different things. However, as the monitor goes black, maybe the graphics card is faulty, or maybe even the motherboard. How old is your PC?
 

redeye277

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It's around 2/3 years old. I have an: Asus crosshair v formula-z mobo, amd radeon r290 GPU and amd piledriver fx-8 eight core 8350 processor.

It's more the fact that it works perfectly fine after a restart and I wont have an issue with it at all until I next turn it on. I've completed numerous malware and virus checks so i'm starting to think that that isnt the issue.
 
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Okay, as it is that new, nothing should have broken because of age. However those components are pretty power hungry, what power supply do you have? If it's not powerful enough, your PC may crash. And have you overclocked?
 

redeye277

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No it's not overclocked and I have a 750W psu. Not really had any trouble up until early this year. :/
 
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Hmm, have you done anything special with it recently? The last option would be to reinstall the whole OS, see if it helps.