I've built a brand new machine, but to my horror my monitor occasionally flashes black for around a second, then returning to normal. This happens under load (watching videos / playing games) but only sometimes; e.g. it doesn't occur in "Batman: Arkham City" but does in "XCOM: Enemy Unknown". When watching videos, it also occurs when not watching them full-screen, and it sometimes even occurs when the machine isn't doing anything, just sitting at the desktop and moving the mouse around.

Has anyone ran into this problem and knows of any solution?

Additionally, sometimes after the black screen, it won't return to normal, instead turning completely corrupt. In these cases even quitting the application doesn't help, but physically disconnecting and reconnecting the monitor fixes the problem.

This problem did not occur on my earlier machine which used the same physical monitor.

Additional details:

• Windows Server 2012, configured as Windows 8, with latest updates installed
• NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 Ti, with latest driver installed
• Ample amounts of CPU and RAM for playing the above games and for watching videos.

I've read about similar problems elsewhere but could not find a working solution:

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zt00C-HXFbA&noredirect=1
• http://www.sevenforums.com/hardware-devices/59126-monitor-flashing-black.html
• https://eu.battle.net/d3/en/forum/topic/4079098908?page=4
• http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/347422-33-screen-flickering-black-nvidia-driver-update