the pins inside borked - it was used for connecting to the 2nd monitor. But the issue at hand is with the first monitor, a separate cable lol.

So it's working atm for hours without going black... What did i Do? reinstall the driver but still saw the problem. Then I unscrewed the bolts for the cable and it worked? So I left it like that without screwing the bolts in... WTF?

might have been stressing a connection on the gfx card.

Idk, I had it screwed in to the maximum for the last year or two for the first monitor cable until my 2nd monitor cable broke. Then I tried unscrewing it to test if my 2nd monitor died or not - which it did not - so I had to replug my first monitor


AWKWARD AND WEIRD

I spoke too soon
beep boop black screen
rip


edit: going to try to disable afterburner

This post was edited by Lray on Sep 25 2018 09:55pm

found the problem: overclock settings on gpu