Screen randomly flashes black at times on RTX 2080. Is my card dying?

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celpas

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Its been 7 days since I bought the RTX 2080 Founders edition and sometimes while gaming or web browsing my screen randomly flashes black, sometimes once, sometimes a couple of times and then resumes normally. I have already checked my cables and everything is tight. Is the card dying or is it the drivers? The card is connected to a 144hz G-Sync monitor.
 
What drivers are you running I had this happen with some early Nvidia drivers that were released like two months ago.
I'm running a 2080 EVGA.
 
Comixbooks said:
What drivers are you running I had this happen with some early Nvidia drivers that were released like two months ago.
I'm running a 2080 EVGA.
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I am running 416.94. The 417 one released 2 days ago made the issue worse in gaming. It flashed black for a second or 2 couple of times and I reverted back.
 
celpas said:
Its been 7 days since I bought the RTX 2080 Founders edition and sometimes while gaming or web browsing my screen randomly flashes black, sometimes once, sometimes a couple of times and then resumes normally. I have already checked my cables and everything is tight. Is the card dying or is it the drivers? The card is connected to a 144hz G-Sync monitor.
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I've seen this before on a AMD Nano on a 4K monitor - turned out that the cable was just not able to handle the data rate. New higher quality cable eliminated the issue. Does it do it at a lower monitor frequency like 120hz or 100hz. If not then I would suspect cable is causing issues.
 
I had that with a 780 but it kept telling me the nvidia driver crashed but recovered.

Latest drivers too.
 
I wouldn't change anything since the card has a decent chance of completely dying. In fact I'd do the stuff Kyle has been doing and see if it goes completely out and you can RMA it instead of pulling your hair out doing other stuff.
 
My 2080 To was screen flashing at 4:4:4 Chroma settings on a 10 ft 18 GbPs cable. Cut the croma to 4:2:2 and it almost disappeared. I'm pushing 4K native to a 4 series TCL 55" tv.

Look at your cable and the distance. Anything over 10 feet is an issue , do 6 if possible (that's my next test). We need to eliminate the problems that aren't really problems with the hardware. It's probably just a shitload more sensitive than my 1080Ti was.

As for testing the cards ... If it's gonna die, it will do that no matter what you're doing to it, if it's got a flaw in it. Just use your system as normal.
 
noko said:
I've seen this before on a AMD Nano on a 4K monitor - turned out that the cable was just not able to handle the data rate. New higher quality cable eliminated the issue. Does it do it at a lower monitor frequency like 120hz or 100hz. If not then I would suspect cable is causing issues.
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Legendary Gamer said:
My 2080 To was screen flashing at 4:4:4 Chroma settings on a 10 ft 18 GbPs cable. Cut the croma to 4:2:2 and it almost disappeared. I'm pushing 4K native to a 4 series TCL 55" tv.

Look at your cable and the distance. Anything over 10 feet is an issue , do 6 if possible (that's my next test). We need to eliminate the problems that aren't really problems with the hardware. It's probably just a shitload more sensitive than my 1080Ti was.

As for testing the cards ... If it's gonna die, it will do that no matter what you're doing to it, if it's got a flaw in it. Just use your system as normal.
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I changed these settings and lowered my refresh rate to 120hz and it black screened twice when playing Assassins creed origins in an 6 hour gaming session. Both black screens were for less than 1 seconds and occurred within 10 minutes of each other. My cable distance is very short so that's not the issue.

From what I read, the defective cards black screens used to crash to desktop but that's not happening. The game resumes normally after 1 second. Weird
 
FYI my screen flashes weren't black screens. It was like a white flash with dots on it... Sounds crazy, but I think mine might have been EMI Interference or something, still testing. I haven't encountered the black screen flash yet.
 
It could be interference. I had this happen on my 4K TV. Random black screen flashes. I tried everything, 4 new cables, different settings, etc. nothing helped.

Then I took the main TV cables and separated them from all the other cables under the desk (using twist ties to the table legs) and after doing this I have not seen the black flashes again.
 
The event viewer has this error. Could it be related to the black screen?

The description for Event ID 14 from source nvlddmkm cannot be found.
 
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