Screen Freezes Single Color

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Jan 21, 2017
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Before I was getting the screen freezes I was experiencing a problem where my pc would switch off and when I re-entered windows I would got a message ( I think from Asus) that my PSU was experiencing power surges. This happened a few times. I think reconnect the power cable to the PSU and that seems to have stopped that surge error message. My problem now is that I get screen freezes with a single color when I do graphic intensive stuff such as gaming or doing benchmarks like 3dmark. The screen freezes forces me to restart my machine. I had a look at the even viewer logs and found my graphic drivers stopped and restarted and then I got a error 41 kernal error which I guess is from me restarting my machine. Would it be possible that the PSU is not delivery enough power to the GPU (Cause of the previous surge issues I was having)? or do you think that the GPU needs replacing. Also I have uninstalled the graphic drivers using the ddu tool or what ever it was called and reinstalled my graphic drivers but this did nothing. I also replaced the hdmi cable. Btw the graphic card is the msi 980ti, cpu is 6600k i5, asus z170m pro and the rest of my stuff is pretty standard.
 
Solution
You have made great assumptions about your rig. Your power supply is likely defective. It could also be your graphic card. If it only happens in graphic intensive applications, look to get a new card.