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Video card driver probably causing crash

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August 26, 2014 4:55:41 PM

Hi, today I formatted my computer and installed a fresh genuine windows 7 64 bit. My GPU is GTX 560 Ti.
I have installed the newsest drivers (340.52). When playing games, like Battlefield 3 or League of Legends (Which is not heavy) my pc randomly crashes (completely and instantly shuts down). This has happend before, and the story is pretty complicated so bear with me. About a month ago I tried running my computer with a used GTX 570 from a friend. After installing the Nvidia drivers, I noticed my pc crashes at games (any game). I than replaced my GPU back to my GTX 560 Ti, and the pc still crashed. I was searching everywhere for a solution, but then I uninstalled all of my drivers and reinstalled it again, and the pc stopped crashing. Today after the formatting, the problem came back and my pc crashes the exact same way. I tried reinstalling Nvidia drivers but it still crashes. I'm pretty much sure it has something to do with my drivers,just like happend a month ago, but i'm not sure how to fix it. Please help me ASAP! I'm frustrated!

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a b U Graphics card
August 26, 2014 4:57:15 PM

This is a problem with your power supply. It is either not powerful to supply enough power and then everything crashes and shuts down, or it has some other issue but you for sure need a new PSU, which will fix this. I would buy a very high-quality one that will maintain reliability during power-intensive tasks.
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a b U Graphics card
August 26, 2014 4:58:33 PM

power supply? ram? check hdd health w crystaldiskinfo
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August 26, 2014 5:07:45 PM

turkey3_scratch said:
This is a problem with your power supply. It is either not powerful to supply enough power and then everything crashes and shuts down, or it has some other issue but you for sure need a new PSU, which will fix this. I would buy a very high-quality one that will maintain reliability during power-intensive tasks.


I am pretty convinced its not about my PSU. I had this problem before, where the pc would just shut down (Not blue screen or anything). I tested the pc with completely different PSU (Corsair CX 750M) and a different GPU (GTX 570) and the problem still happend, my pc crashed.I also tried combining all combinations, my GTX 560Ti with the CX750M, GTX 560Ti with my current enermax 550W supply, and nothing solved it. As I said in the main post, I fixed this the first time by reinstalling my drivers but it doesn't seem to work this time. Let me make this clear, The problem came back today only after formatting my computer, and installing windows 7 again. I'm pretty sure it doesnt have anything to do with hardware but with my drivers.
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August 26, 2014 5:20:09 PM

Beezy said:
power supply? ram? check hdd health w crystaldiskinfo


My power supply is enermax 550W and I have 8GB ram DDR3. But I do not think it matter, my pc worked fine just today, but after formatting my HDD and installing a fresh windows 7, the problem came back again.
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a b U Graphics card
August 30, 2014 8:30:02 AM

then use different drivers?
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