Monitor loses image, but monitor and PC stay on while playing game.

ScumbagAllen

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Jul 26, 2016
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Hello everyone, got a strange(hopefully one off) problem for you today.

I was playing Rainbow Six Siege today when my monitor loses it's image while it and the computer stay on. What I mean by the monitor staying on is that the back light and the power button remain on but without any image. The only way I could exit the game and return to the desktop was to turn the PC off on the tower.

This the only time this has happened and I would like to prevent it from happening again, but I'm unsure if this is a GPU issue or what.

I'll leave my specs below, thanks!

Cpu: i7 4790k
Mobo: Gigabyte z97x-sli-cf
Gpu: Gtx 970, Zotac
Ram: 16gb Corsair Vengeance
Monitor: BenQ XL2720Z 144Hz