Theyre not making me pay this time, or Id flip my shit.
There was no software or hardware changes that preceded the event. I was doing essentially the same thing I do every day (playing PoE on the main monitor, youtube on a second monitor) Immediately after the screens went black, I shut the pc down, restarted, nothing.
I power cycled the psu, unplugged and replugged the monitors, then repeated that with only 1 monitor at a time with the different inputs, nothing.
Then just to be sure, I used a different monitor, still nothing. I pulled the card and used the dvi port on the mobo, worked. Put in the old nvida card, worked.
I then wiped the nvidia drivers and put the 280x in to tide me over. This card is solid and only 1 generation below the 970, but unfortunately this model of card has intermittent artifact problems due to vram issues (i actually had to install some low profile heatsinks on the vram chips but it still happens occasionally during heavy load)