So, I was playing Battlefield 3, and this happened...

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reconrey

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The buffered audio looped and I could not tab out or ctrl-alt-delete. I am running and Asus GTX 560 (non ti) and am using the 331.40 beta drivers. Could this be a problem with the fact that I am using beta drivers or could it be a faulty card (or just a 'fluke')?

Thoughts?

Here are my specs:
Asus GTX 560 (non ti)
16GB DDR3 RAM @ 1333MHz (though it gets registered in my comp as 667MHz?)
AMD Phenom II x6 1090t @ 3.8GHz
2TB Seagate HDD

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Then problem solved ;) haha. But really it looks like some driver issue. Just a few minutes ago I had huge artifacts on BF3 when I opened fraps so i'm certain it is driver issue (similar to my problem) and most likely not hardware. It still would be a good idea to downgrade your drivers from the beta to maybe prevent it from happening.
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That does not look great at all. I have in rare instances seen drivers cause strange issues however. Please back off to the last drivers you had used for that card to see if it works better.

It may be a good idea to see how hot the card is getting(something like hwmon/gpuz/nvidia inspector can do this.). Clean the heatsink if it is dirty.

The memory showing 667 is fine it is the way DDR memory works.
 
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What's the wattage on your PSU? Maybe a recent change in graphic settings pushed it a little bit too much and crashed it. Could also be your CPU maybe, check temps on it; might need a heatsink clean out as well as the GPU. Update drivers, try again, roll back drivers..try again again.
 
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I don't think it was the heatsinks since I had the comp built for about 2 years and never cleaned the heatsink, until a month or two ago when I too my computer out to the garage and blew it out with an air compressor, so it should be relatively clean. The PSU is a 550 watt, and I have not changed anything that would require it to have more power recently. I always had my processor overclocked to 3.8GHz and I have never experienced this problem before.

Thanks!
 
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Is the problem still happening or is it just a one time thing? Try what nukemaster said and rollback the drivers you have
 
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Just once, I posted this right after it happened
 
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Lucas Schlachter

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And are you able to re-create this problem?
 
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As of yet, no
 
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Then problem solved ;) haha. But really it looks like some driver issue. Just a few minutes ago I had huge artifacts on BF3 when I opened fraps so i'm certain it is driver issue (similar to my problem) and most likely not hardware. It still would be a good idea to downgrade your drivers from the beta to maybe prevent it from happening.
 
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Alright, I will attempt to mimic the issue tomorrow, downgrade the drivers, and report back.

Thanks guys!
 
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I played for a few hours today, in the same server too, and I did not get this problem, or even anything similar. I am still using the 331.40 drivers, so I guess it was just a one time thing?

Thanks!
 
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