Problem with Graphic Freeze

deathbydonut

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Hi All,

Having a problem with my PC I build 2 years ago. Past couple weeks have noticed that the screen while in games will randomly stutter, flash to the desktop and back to the game. this week problem has gotten much worst where it will crash and I will have to alt tab out to get to desktop and close game after playing for less than 1 minute.

I heard people were having problems with the new NVidia driver 320.49, so I reverted to 314.22 which worked fine previously. Having same issue.

Checked the temps on my cores and my graphics card and they seem normal 30-40 idle and 60-70 load.

Don't know what else to do besides full format of computer. Also noticed on a separate note, my sound card seems like its not being recognized either now.... Lovely!

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

EDIT: Also running -
Windows 7
8 Gig Memory
Nvidia GTX 570
Intel Core i5 - 2500K 3.3ghz
1 TB standard HD (Not Raid)
 
Solution
one thing you can try is to buy another graphics card and use it to test your system
if all is okay then you know it's your graphics card
if it's still crashing, you can return the graphics card for a good reason and then assume it might be something wrong with the rest of the computer

HopelessNoob

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to completely remove it i personally use something like revo uninstaller because it helps to sweep all files and registry entries so it seems like the computer never even had the driver installed to begin with
but i think a simple uninstall from add/remove with reboot should be fine
 

deathbydonut

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I tried to reformat whole computer, reinstall windows 7 and all drivers, but left the driver for the graphics card as the default one installed by windows update 311.06. Still having same issue where during games, will crash to desktop or crash and reset computer.

Still need help! Is it possible my graphics card is done? I just bought it a year ago, and temps seem ok on it during games.
 

HopelessNoob

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one thing you can try is to buy another graphics card and use it to test your system
if all is okay then you know it's your graphics card
if it's still crashing, you can return the graphics card for a good reason and then assume it might be something wrong with the rest of the computer
 
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