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6 months ago
Hey, everyone. I hope you’re doing well in this rather… unusual state of this website. It’s rather strange to be in this sort of limbo state, but I’m sure they will get things back up and running very soon!
Sadly, I wish everything was all nice, peachy and simple as apparently, my computer has decided to act all quirky, noisy and troublesome thanks to the display drivers on my RTX 4080 GPU crashing and possibly taking the GPU itself down with it.
So, what happened?
About a month ago or so, I began to experience a very strange issue with my computer where my monitor screen would go black as if I just changed the channel as the “No Signal” message would appear before going on standby. This issue would happen at random as I could be playing games, using Discord or even watching a video.
I did some extensive troubleshooting and research online about this issue, and this issue started with versions 572/576 on Nvidia’s Game Ready graphics drivers as it was causing them to crash. There has been a few articles that talked about this, including from PC Gamer, and it was recommended for me to roll it back to version 566 as it was reported to be very stable. So, I went ahead to download Display Driver Uninstaller (DDU for short), booted my computer up into Safe Mode, ran the program, let it restart, apply the previous version and restart again. The issue was fixed and everything was fine.
That is, until now as fast forward to today, and my computer has decided to unleash phase 2 of this issue, which made it much more strange, worse and outright frustrating to deal with. Not to mention that I was also tired as I just came back from my holidays as well.
I was playing Rift of The Necrodrancer for a bit and in the middle of a level, the black screen issue came back. So, I followed the same troubleshooting steps, but it was only temporary as the issue persisted even after several restarts and clean-ups from the DDU software that I was using. I have tried to roll back some Windows updates, used the keyboard shortcut to restart the graphics drivers, made sure that everything was physically connected, everything. Yet, the issue still persisted, even after running DDU multiple times on each failed attempt!
What was even stranger was that when I rolled back on Windows Update, Device Manager disappeared as my Start menu couldn’t even find it! So, I had to use Run and execute it to bring it up! And on top of that, my computer was having an identity crisis as it was saying that my GPU wasn’t connected while it actually was connected. I didn’t remove it or anything. So, I’m not sure why it was doing that.
So, in the end, I decided to do a reset on my PC in the hopes that I could find a way to take away the troublesome display drivers. But as I type this, my GPU fans are revving up and taking off like a jet engine and it’s almost 4am as I’ve been troubleshooting this issue for a good 5 hours.
UGH!
I guess I’m gonna need to take a trip down to a computer repair shop tomorrow or something. This is going to burn a hole through my wallet.
Sadly, I wish everything was all nice, peachy and simple as apparently, my computer has decided to act all quirky, noisy and troublesome thanks to the display drivers on my RTX 4080 GPU crashing and possibly taking the GPU itself down with it.
So, what happened?
About a month ago or so, I began to experience a very strange issue with my computer where my monitor screen would go black as if I just changed the channel as the “No Signal” message would appear before going on standby. This issue would happen at random as I could be playing games, using Discord or even watching a video.
I did some extensive troubleshooting and research online about this issue, and this issue started with versions 572/576 on Nvidia’s Game Ready graphics drivers as it was causing them to crash. There has been a few articles that talked about this, including from PC Gamer, and it was recommended for me to roll it back to version 566 as it was reported to be very stable. So, I went ahead to download Display Driver Uninstaller (DDU for short), booted my computer up into Safe Mode, ran the program, let it restart, apply the previous version and restart again. The issue was fixed and everything was fine.
That is, until now as fast forward to today, and my computer has decided to unleash phase 2 of this issue, which made it much more strange, worse and outright frustrating to deal with. Not to mention that I was also tired as I just came back from my holidays as well.
I was playing Rift of The Necrodrancer for a bit and in the middle of a level, the black screen issue came back. So, I followed the same troubleshooting steps, but it was only temporary as the issue persisted even after several restarts and clean-ups from the DDU software that I was using. I have tried to roll back some Windows updates, used the keyboard shortcut to restart the graphics drivers, made sure that everything was physically connected, everything. Yet, the issue still persisted, even after running DDU multiple times on each failed attempt!
What was even stranger was that when I rolled back on Windows Update, Device Manager disappeared as my Start menu couldn’t even find it! So, I had to use Run and execute it to bring it up! And on top of that, my computer was having an identity crisis as it was saying that my GPU wasn’t connected while it actually was connected. I didn’t remove it or anything. So, I’m not sure why it was doing that.
So, in the end, I decided to do a reset on my PC in the hopes that I could find a way to take away the troublesome display drivers. But as I type this, my GPU fans are revving up and taking off like a jet engine and it’s almost 4am as I’ve been troubleshooting this issue for a good 5 hours.
UGH!
I guess I’m gonna need to take a trip down to a computer repair shop tomorrow or something. This is going to burn a hole through my wallet.
