Okay, so I have a very weird situation and it makes absolutely no sense to me. Tried googling but found nothing similar, I'll give an exact rundown on what has happened.
It started a while ago, I rarely, but sometimes got BSOD's while running more power hungry programs like video encoder for streaming coupled with a game and such, didn't pay too much attention to it first as they were rare and thought they were just programs conflicting or something similar.
Shortly after that I updated all of my drivers, everything seemed to be fine, only 1 BSOD, until yesterday.
While I was playing League of Legends my computer suddenly seemed to crash, I got short wavey blue horizontal lines all across the screen and my screen was completely locked down, I couldn't open up task manager or anything, BUT I was still hearing people talk on skype so things besides the display seemed to work fine. But since I couldn't do anything and my screen was locked all I could do was hold the power button to shut down. When I tried to start the game again shortly after the same thing happened about 3 seconds into the game. I thought that maybe my GPU was overheating.
The next day I cleaned everything of dust, checked the cables, the fans and everything and started the game again after the comp had been off for around 12 hours. The exact same thing about 5 seconds into the game.
Only this time when I rebooted it, I got no image. My monitor did act as if it picked up a signal, my computer seemed to run fine, all the lights turned on, keyboard and mouse seemed to work fine, only that I was getting a black blank screen. Even the motherboard loading screens and such didn't come on.
So I started with the most simple troubleshooting, switching around and testing RAM sticks. When I switched them around it started normally again, however, crashed the same way when I opened the game and yet again, no image upon powering on. So I tried every possible stick combination but still, nothing gave an image.
So I moved onto the next simple thing I could think of. Removing the CMOS battery for 5 minutes and putting it back in. Strangely enough, this made me get back my image, but I really doubt it's a permanent solution, so I haven't started a game yet. Also my clock is completely wrong and some of my tray icons are invisible now (though I guess this is expected by removing the CMOS battery for a moment?)
I really didn't know where to post this, but since this seems to be display related, I figured this was the best place. I also really can't find any connections as to why doing such seemingly irrelevant things gets my image back, I don't see any patterns or anything. Google answers were either vague, under different circumstances or just off. I can browse and listen to music and such easy, it only starts acting up in games I think.
I'm scratching my head here, confused. Also, I know my way around computers, but I am no specialist, so please keep that in mind when trying to help me.
Added my dxdiag report below, for all the specifications needed.
http://pastebin.com/QJRcH3S7
Any help much appreciated.
It started a while ago, I rarely, but sometimes got BSOD's while running more power hungry programs like video encoder for streaming coupled with a game and such, didn't pay too much attention to it first as they were rare and thought they were just programs conflicting or something similar.
Shortly after that I updated all of my drivers, everything seemed to be fine, only 1 BSOD, until yesterday.
While I was playing League of Legends my computer suddenly seemed to crash, I got short wavey blue horizontal lines all across the screen and my screen was completely locked down, I couldn't open up task manager or anything, BUT I was still hearing people talk on skype so things besides the display seemed to work fine. But since I couldn't do anything and my screen was locked all I could do was hold the power button to shut down. When I tried to start the game again shortly after the same thing happened about 3 seconds into the game. I thought that maybe my GPU was overheating.
The next day I cleaned everything of dust, checked the cables, the fans and everything and started the game again after the comp had been off for around 12 hours. The exact same thing about 5 seconds into the game.
Only this time when I rebooted it, I got no image. My monitor did act as if it picked up a signal, my computer seemed to run fine, all the lights turned on, keyboard and mouse seemed to work fine, only that I was getting a black blank screen. Even the motherboard loading screens and such didn't come on.
So I started with the most simple troubleshooting, switching around and testing RAM sticks. When I switched them around it started normally again, however, crashed the same way when I opened the game and yet again, no image upon powering on. So I tried every possible stick combination but still, nothing gave an image.
So I moved onto the next simple thing I could think of. Removing the CMOS battery for 5 minutes and putting it back in. Strangely enough, this made me get back my image, but I really doubt it's a permanent solution, so I haven't started a game yet. Also my clock is completely wrong and some of my tray icons are invisible now (though I guess this is expected by removing the CMOS battery for a moment?)
I really didn't know where to post this, but since this seems to be display related, I figured this was the best place. I also really can't find any connections as to why doing such seemingly irrelevant things gets my image back, I don't see any patterns or anything. Google answers were either vague, under different circumstances or just off. I can browse and listen to music and such easy, it only starts acting up in games I think.
I'm scratching my head here, confused. Also, I know my way around computers, but I am no specialist, so please keep that in mind when trying to help me.
Added my dxdiag report below, for all the specifications needed.
http://pastebin.com/QJRcH3S7
Any help much appreciated.
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