My Screen Turned Black While Gaming, Can It Be Fixed?

Often when your screen goes black while putting your Graphics Processor under a high load, it is due to a crash of your Graphics Driver. A simple force restart (holding down the power button until it turns off) may resolve your issue. If you continue to have further issues, we encourage you to bring your computer in for further evaluation.

How To Fix A Black Screen On Start-up?

With Desktop computers, often removing all RAM sticks but one and alternating may resolve your problem. This could be because of faulty RAM. If you do find one to be working and not the other, we still highly encourage testing the 'faulty' RAM independently as it may have just not been seated properly and may still be perfectly functional.

Do You Fix Phones or Consoles?

Unfortunately, at this stage we do not perform these types of repairs, although we may in the future. For now we highly reccomend PTC phone repairs for all phone related repairs.

Computer Black Screen Issues

Gold Coast PC Repairs is the most trusted computer repairs company on the coast. We have over 30 years experience in all things IT, serving major corporations such as Dreamworld & Newscorp Australia, as well as 5000+ general clients.

Computer Powers On, But Has A Black Screen

This is one of the most common things we see on computers & it can mean a variety of things. In some circumstances it can be as simple as having some faulty RAM or it being loose in it's slot. It can also indicate failed graphics processors or faulty screens. To get to the bottom of these issues, you need an expert. Get in touch with us for an evaluation of your desktop PC, Laptop or All in one computer.

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Startup Failures

Black screens often occur because of an issue that occurs during a computers start-up testing. This is essentially a phase where the computer verifies that all the hardware is functional to allow the computer to present a screen. Often, especially in desktop PC's, a black screen can be due to some faulty RAM or poorly seated RAM. We may be able to repair this very quickly & for cheap. So it is definitely worth bringing your computer in for an evaluation if you have black screen issues.

Graphics / Display Issues

Another main reason for a Black Screen can be that your graphics has failed. This can be due to Power issues, GPU failure or even simple software issues. We can help to diagnose & repair any graphics issues on any laptop, desktop or all in one device. Contact us for a quote today.

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Frequently Asked Computer Questions

My Screen Turned Black While Gaming, Can It Be Fixed?

Often when your screen goes black while putting your Graphics Processor under a high load, it is due to a crash of your Graphics Driver. A simple force restart (holding down the power button until it turns off) may resolve your issue. If you continue to have further issues, we encourage you to bring your computer in for further evaluation.
How To Fix A Black Screen On Start-up?

With Desktop computers, often removing all RAM sticks but one and alternating may resolve your problem. This could be because of faulty RAM. If you do find one to be working and not the other, we still highly encourage testing the 'faulty' RAM independently as it may have just not been seated properly and may still be perfectly functional.
Do You Fix Phones or Consoles?

Unfortunately, at this stage we do not perform these types of repairs, although we may in the future. For now we highly reccomend PTC phone repairs for all phone related repairs.