PC Video output dies, followed by a hard reset after around a minute

Yugaman

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When playing games, like PUBG or Terra Tech, one of my PCs will have its audio carry on while the monitors black out. I was playing last night on Discord when it happened, I got a Windows 10 notification which is presumably telling me my monitors have been disconnected, but everything else seems fine.

After around a minute of me telling my discord mates that my monitors are gone, the PC hard reboots and flashes me straight back to the BIOS, where it boots up again like normal.

I've been monitoring temperatures of the build and all seems fine, so I have no idea what's going on. Any help would be appreciated!

Specs:
-Intel Core i5-2400
-16GB 1333MHz DDR3 (4x4GB)
-Gigabyte GTX 960 2GB
-500W PSU
-Windows 10 16299.431 (v1709)
 
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traumadisaster

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Let me know how this resolves, I recently just had the same thing happen. I was playing total war fine then after the win10 update we evidently got the other day, all of a sudden all my games go to black screen, I hear audio for about a min, then I get an auto reboot. All of my temps are fine. I also get distorted small boxes of pixel with odd colors too, that is different that you though, I'm leaning towards a gfx card issue.
 
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