On Startup always weird multicoloured bars and then blank screen

LoosSerine

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Hi all,

I'm having an issue where when I startup my PC every morning, my monitor always just displays weird multicolored bars and then 5 seconds later, just black screen, as if non responsive. I have to then force shutdown and restart to have startup start properly and then everything is fine.
This all started about a week ago with the Nvidia driver which caused my main monitor (on DP) to e unrecognised and me having to unplug the power to it and then replug it in for it to be detected. I've since updated the driver as it seems there was weird behaviour for some others online. That's since been fine however this startup issue is really irritating me and making me think something is wrong with my GPU?

In my Eventviewer, it seems at the time that I startup, there's always a 'previous system shutdown was unexpected' error meaning it never shuts down properly in the evening which is weird as it seems perfectly fine. There was also a Critical (The system has rebooted without cleanly shutting down first. This error could be caused if the system stopped responding, crashed, or lost power unexpectedly.) error as well at around the same time but I suspect this could be me force shutting down due to the bars. I do have a TON of SidebySide errors all to do with the Deployment Kit so if anyone can help with that I'd much appreciate it as well as I've done DISM Restore to no avail.

Specs:

CPU: i7 5820K - NOT OC'd atm.
GPU: EVGA 980Ti FTW
Motherboard: Gigabyte X99 SLI
Memory: Corsair Vengeance 16GB
Storage: Samsung Evo 850 500GB for the CPU
Sandisk Ultra II 1TB
2x3TB WD Red
PSU: Corsair HX1000i
Case: Fractal Design R5 with Coolermaster Nepton 850 CPU Cooler + 2 fans on case

Any help is much appreciated. I suspect my GPU is fine just something in the system is messing up. Gaming is fine, never crashes on any, rendering is fine, just this startup issue and the sidebyside errors everywhere.
 
Solution
Check for a newer BIOS, and you would want to test the video card in another system to see if it does the same thing. What you are seeing is a perfect example of a failing video card aside from the fact that it does not crash during games.
Check for a newer BIOS, and you would want to test the video card in another system to see if it does the same thing. What you are seeing is a perfect example of a failing video card aside from the fact that it does not crash during games.
 
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