Windows 10: Pc Restarts/crashes with black screen when gaming or watching youtube.

I would start playing a game or watching youtube and out of the blue my pc would restart and my screen would turn off and the pc would restart for a moment. I would then go to event viewer and see the event id 6008. I have installed my cpu and gpu drivers and windows updates but the problem still happens. I do not know if this is a remote shut off as 6008 is unknown reason for shutoff or if the computer's hardware is not working as intended. This problem started at the beginning of the week and I need help.

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Windows crashes randomly when watching YouTube videos at full screen


I don't know why, but ever since this afternoon, Windows decides to crash complete whenever I'm a few minutes or so in watching a YouTube video. It doesn't do it playing intensive games like Grand Theft Auto 5 yet it decides to do it watching a YouTube video. How Windows crashes is the reason why I'm making this thread.

What happens when I'm in the middle of watching a video is that the screen goes black with the cursor flickering and later disappears as well as the audio cutting off with nothing but blackness. Pressing anything does not make sounds, and nothing appears after a moment of blackness, not even a blue screen. And after restarting, the interface does some strange behavior I've never seen before. The resolution is changed to 800x600 (or 1024x768, I don't know, 4:3 aspect ratio) and the options are even more awkward. The only options through adapter settings (resolution cannot be changed in advanced display settings for some reason) are all in 4:3 aspect ratio with of all the standard refresh rates in PCs is a never heard of 64 Hz applied to each option

Fortunately, things go back to normal after another restart, but the crashing while watching YouTube videos in full screen continue to happen. Now this issue doesn't annoy me to the very core, but it does bother me that such an interruption can happen. I prefer to watch videos in full screen, so I want to know how I can fix it. I don't want to be hesitant to watch something in a preferred mode forever. Let me know what you think is wrong.

PC: ABS Logic-i3R ALI094 Desktop PC Intel Core i3 6th Gen 6100 8 GB DDR4 1 TB HDD GeForce GTX 750 Ti 2 GB Windows 10 Home 64-Bit-Newegg.com

 

Youtube black screens.

Well something interesting has happened, yesterday watching youtube videos was no problems, yet today when I try to watch a video, any video it shows as a black screen and the audio works.

After a little google search, I found that watching a video on the issue allowed me to see it, weird I thought as previously no video worked. I then click a random video on the suggested list and that too works.

I then type a search in youtube and bam! black screen again.

After a little more help from google, I found that disabling adblock plus allowed me to watch videos with no problems again + if I disable then re-enable all videos would work, although for a limited time, as after a few minutes when I switched to a new video it started again.

Edit: If I logged out of my youtube account, there would be no more black screens on videos, although there would also be ads...

My fix was this: I uninstalled adblock plus and instaled ublock origin, seems to have done the trick.

My question is what was the cause for this?

Also previously adblock would not block all ads on some sites, like techpowerup for example, ublock origin also fails to do this, although adblock managed to do this when I first installed. I know the fix for my add problems is a uninstall with iobit uninstaller and then reinstall, a simple reinstall does not work and I won't bother installing iobit just for this site. (ublock origin allows me to select bothering things and block them manually)

Edit: Also when I noticed adblock was not blocking all ads, google suggested to disable allow non-intrusive ads, I did that and it worked, I didn't give it further thought and the next day when I connect, ads were still shown on the site. Enabling-disabling the option after this had no further effects on the problem, as neither did a normal uninstall-reinstall of firefox.

My addons for firefox were: Adblock plus, adblock popup addon and disconnect.
They now are: Ublock origin, adblock popup addon and disconnect.

I also use bitdefender free edition for antivirus and malwarebytes anti malware for on-demand scanning.
Scanning with both revealed no suspicious or infected files.

This thread is more like what are your thoughts on this?

 

Temporary black screen playing youtube videos, driver issues

Hi Burrito. I'm Greg, 10 years awarded Windows MVP, here to help you.

Try these fixes for known issue of Youtube black screens:

Top 9 Ways to Fix Black Screen Problem in YouTube

Why Is My Youtube Screen Black? Try These Fixes



How to Fix a YouTube Black Screen



Try these fixes for Green Screen crash Driver_irql_not_less_or_equal when playing Youtube:

5 Ways to Solve Green Screen Crash on YouTube

How to Fix Green Screen Issue in YouTube?

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