Don't know if this is related to my graphics card. For years I thought my games and occassionally windows itself would crash due to my GTX 465. I was forced to play my games on my XP Pro 64bit install because at least there when the colors and textures got all screwed up I could jump to the taskbar and then right back into the game without needing to restart. Win 7 made that impossible.
Finally got myself a GTX 650 SC. Figured it would solve those problems. Well, looks like its just as it was if not worse. First game I tried was Mass Effect 3. I did however play that on my XP install but it ran flawlessly. Crashed maybe twice the whole way through which is hardly worth mentioning. Decided to play Assassin's Creed afterwards (which I've played all the way through before with my GTX 465) but this time I installed it on my win 7 install. Crashes every 5 minutes. Did an XP install, same deal except with the funky colours and textures. And even then after enough time goes by, it locks up totally where even ctrl-esc does nothing.
There are times as well when just working in windows (both xp and win 7) the screen will go black and come right back on with a little message in the bottom right saying my nVidia drivers stopped responding and were restarted. That's a little more rare but its what lead me to believe my GTX 465 was the culprit all this time. Since its happening with my GTX 650 SC, I'm thinking otherwise.
I updated my mobo bios for the first time since I put this machine together. Seems now everything is running worse than ever. The crashes are so frequent that it makes playing any games pointless. Any help in diagnosing this stuff would be appreciated.
Core i5 750 @ 2.66 ghz
OCZ 3g1333lv8gk pc3 10666 4 gb x 2 @1.65v
p7p55d pro mobo
gtx 650 sc
(previous gtx 465)
Finally got myself a GTX 650 SC. Figured it would solve those problems. Well, looks like its just as it was if not worse. First game I tried was Mass Effect 3. I did however play that on my XP install but it ran flawlessly. Crashed maybe twice the whole way through which is hardly worth mentioning. Decided to play Assassin's Creed afterwards (which I've played all the way through before with my GTX 465) but this time I installed it on my win 7 install. Crashes every 5 minutes. Did an XP install, same deal except with the funky colours and textures. And even then after enough time goes by, it locks up totally where even ctrl-esc does nothing.
There are times as well when just working in windows (both xp and win 7) the screen will go black and come right back on with a little message in the bottom right saying my nVidia drivers stopped responding and were restarted. That's a little more rare but its what lead me to believe my GTX 465 was the culprit all this time. Since its happening with my GTX 650 SC, I'm thinking otherwise.
I updated my mobo bios for the first time since I put this machine together. Seems now everything is running worse than ever. The crashes are so frequent that it makes playing any games pointless. Any help in diagnosing this stuff would be appreciated.
Core i5 750 @ 2.66 ghz
OCZ 3g1333lv8gk pc3 10666 4 gb x 2 @1.65v
p7p55d pro mobo
gtx 650 sc
(previous gtx 465)
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