So a few weeks ago I updated my video card drivers to a beta version to improve performance on a buggy Splinter Cell Blacklist for a GTX 460. While it did wonders with the game, my computer it self started acting weird.
First my graphic card driver would crash at random and sometimes recover. Then I started getting BSOD's saying my driver failed to recover. I did get one BSOD with the error Next thing you know 1 of my hard drives fails! (Had 2 in RAID 0)
So I did a clean install of Windows 7 with fully updated drivers on my hard drive that still worked. Checked for malware and viruses but found nothing. Cleaned the inside of my desktop as well. Ran Memtest for several hours but all tests passed. The temperatures for ALL my components are fine and stable even under load. Even after all that now my computer will just randomly freeze at times and just restart on its own now with no BSOD.
I can play for hours and sometimes leave the computer on for hours but every now and then it will start to freeze slowly (it will freeze for a few seconds then be fine again) before completely forcing me to either reboot or wait till it does on its own.
I'm not sure whether maybe my HDD got corrupted when 1 of them failed or its my GPU? Or if possible even though I doubt it, a faulty PSU? I built this system about 3 years ago and its been running pretty well since then with a few minor hiccups but stable.
Before I get it checked at a shop, any help would be appreciated guys!
Computer Specs
Windows 7 64bit
Antec EarthWatts 750w
Intel i7 950 Bloomfield 3.06ghz
EVGA X58 Classified3
EVGA GTX 460
G.SKILL 6GB DDR3 1600mhz
SAMSUNG HDD 500gb
First my graphic card driver would crash at random and sometimes recover. Then I started getting BSOD's saying my driver failed to recover. I did get one BSOD with the error Next thing you know 1 of my hard drives fails! (Had 2 in RAID 0)
So I did a clean install of Windows 7 with fully updated drivers on my hard drive that still worked. Checked for malware and viruses but found nothing. Cleaned the inside of my desktop as well. Ran Memtest for several hours but all tests passed. The temperatures for ALL my components are fine and stable even under load. Even after all that now my computer will just randomly freeze at times and just restart on its own now with no BSOD.
I can play for hours and sometimes leave the computer on for hours but every now and then it will start to freeze slowly (it will freeze for a few seconds then be fine again) before completely forcing me to either reboot or wait till it does on its own.
I'm not sure whether maybe my HDD got corrupted when 1 of them failed or its my GPU? Or if possible even though I doubt it, a faulty PSU? I built this system about 3 years ago and its been running pretty well since then with a few minor hiccups but stable.
Before I get it checked at a shop, any help would be appreciated guys!
Computer Specs
Windows 7 64bit
Antec EarthWatts 750w
Intel i7 950 Bloomfield 3.06ghz
EVGA X58 Classified3
EVGA GTX 460
G.SKILL 6GB DDR3 1600mhz
SAMSUNG HDD 500gb
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