Monitor loses signal and only way to fix is to restart

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My monitor has been going off on 3 specific games for a month now, 2 of which are very light. The message that shows up is "lost signal" and it disappears after 2 seconds, the only way to fix it is to turn off the pc and turn it on again. Sometimes it can be fixed by holding a button on the monitor for 5 seconds (the button that turns it off). That closes everything that was opened and sends me to the start screen.
More than half of the times when I lose signal, the audio from the game stops. When it doesn't, I try to do some action in-game (jump, run, shoot, etc) even without seeing anything, but I can't hear the sound of any action, I can just hear other sounds that doesn't depend on my character, which probably means my keyboard isn't responding. Most times the audio doesn't immediately go off, it just gets distorted to the point it's unrecognizable. I already checked for the GPU temperature when this happens and it was fine, so heat can't be the problem. Just to make sure I used msi afterburner and increased the speed of the fans; nothing changed. Although it was colder the signal was lost. Some of the times this happened I was in a call with a friend, and he could still hear my voice, even though there was no signal, although one of the times, his voice also got distorted and went off eventually.
I've tried changing the monitor cable, added and edited TdrDelay to 60 value, did some things on the nvidia painel control and windows settings, I've taken the CMOS battery out, cleaned the RAM and changed slots multiple times and maybe more. None of that fixed it on long term. Taking the CMOS battery fixed it for like 2 days (its the best fix yet), but then one day that windows updated, after like 6 hours or more, signal was lost again and taking it out and putting it again does not help anymore. My PC is 1 year old and a few days.
I apologize if something I said wasn't clear, english is not my first language, I've known it for a while, but sometimes I say something wrong.
Motherboard: B550m aorus elite
CPU: Ryzen 5 5600x
RAM: Two kingston RAM DDR4 HyperX Fury 8 GB
PSU: Corsair atx 750
SSD 2 terabytes kingston A400
GPU: Rtx 3060
OS: Windows 11

This is the second time I post about this. I thought I had fixed it when I changed the fps limitation in nvidia to 60; and it did fix the problem for around a week. That was the temporary fix that lasted the longest so far. But the problem is back again. I've tried changing it to 30 fps and even lower and it still happens. Also screen tearing started to happen in one of the games even though it was such a low fps. I think I've tried everything I could so it's probably a problem in the hardware. Do you think it's the PSU? GPU? CPU? That's all I can think it could be. For more information, look at my previous post: https://pchelpforum.net/threads/monitor-losing-signal-in-a-few-specific-games.92137/
 
Forgot to mention but I also downgraded the GPU driver and that didn't change anything. Recently I've tried undervolting the CPU because I noticed high temperatures, it worked but the next day was the day the lost signal problem came back, so naturally I thought undervolting caused that and so I went to bios and started using the default settings again. Nothing changed, so I don't think it was undervolting. The CPU is only hot when playing a specific game (one of the games where the lost signal problem happens) but I believe it's not hot in the other games where the same issue happens. Maybe I should test that.
 
Not sure what is going on but your OP is the same as the one in your previous thread here which you said Friday was resolved.

This duplicate thread will be closed, if you still require assistance with the original thread it can be reopened.
 
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