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Windows 10 screen freezes on a solid color & needs a manual shutdown
My Computer:
GPU: GeForce GTX970
CPU: Intel Core i5-4690k @ 3.50GHz
8GB Ram
Resolution: 1920x1080, 60Hz
Nvidia Driver version 3.62 (this is not the most recent I tried a rollback to 3.62 but it doesn't seem to help)
OS: Windows 10 Pro
Recently my computer has begun freezing. The screen will suddenly turn to a blank screen of a solid color. The two colors I have experienced so far are blue and orange. Neither shows any text and I don't think the computer actually freezes because no error logs are generated when I reboot and check (with Whocrashed). I think that means its the graphics driver but it has now occurred over the past two driver updates. When the screen changes color the audio does that thing where it makes a repeating sound of whatever was playing when it froze. If i turn the monitor off and back on it will now show a static screen like you would find on a tv.
I built this PC about 6 months ago and it has had no problems until this started occurring about a week or two ago. It has seemed to increase in frequency but that might just be because I didn't think much about it freezing the first couple times since I had no problems then and now I notice it more because it is obviously a recurring problems and not a random crash.
I just signed up to post this so let me know if I am posting in the wrong section. I have searched for this problem through google and have not found anything that matches my exact issue.