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GPU Problem or Driver?

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  • GPUs
  • Counter Strike
  • Graphics
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September 9, 2014 10:04:03 AM

Hello everyone, I just started to have this problem last night with my GPU. The driver was crashing whenever I try to load up Counter-Strike:Source and kept causing my cpu to spike to 100% for a split second and repeats every second. I was on ver. 335.23 or on 331.82 and hadn't had any problems until last night. So I decided to update the driver to 340.52 and still experience the crashes, but everything else seems to be ok. The driver crashed about 3 times last night within about 30 mins and I haven't found the reason why it's doing this. It also crashes when I try to run Furmark. I'm also running my GPU on stock settings.

Gigabyte GTX 760
Corsair CX600M

Here's some screenshots.
PC by iDisabled, on Flickr

PC1 by iDisabled, on Flickr
This is after running Furmark for ~30 sec then it start to lag.

2014-09-09_10.34.05 by iDisabled, on Flickr
How it looks when trying on Minecraft.

And get this about 30 sec after.
PC2 by iDisabled, on Flickr

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September 9, 2014 10:18:47 AM

Have you tried with other games? Don't run Furmark for now.
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September 9, 2014 10:42:01 AM

I tried playing on minecraft and run into graphics problems.
2014-09-09_10.34.05 by iDisabled, on Flickr
Also tried PvZ for about a minute and that seemed to be running fine.
On Starcraft II, right after the log in screen, the background flickers whenever I move the mouse and eventually the screen turns black and crashes. So I exited the game once it's recovered and my computer stutters and gets frozen so I had to restart the computer. Upon restarting and trying to restore my tabs on chrome, it crashes and recovers once again.
Maybe reinstalling the driver will solve this?

If you look at my task manager, you can see the spikes I'm talking about.
PC3 by iDisabled, on Flickr
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September 9, 2014 11:27:11 AM

I wonder if the psu is having issues maintaining the card

my tabs on chrome --chrome look up resource hog for it it may be slowing things down for you
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September 9, 2014 2:46:47 PM

This is how my screen looks like when it crashes sometimes.
IMG_0068 by iDisabled, on Flickr
Also, my CPU_Phase LED 2, 3, 4 are blinking so is it telling me something about the psu? It's a MSI Z77A-G45 mobo
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September 9, 2014 3:06:37 PM

unless you can try the card in another computer or have a backup card to check yours its hard to tell

the screen loks good as far as appearance but the out of wack thing looks to point to a driver issue or a bad card overall

with out a way to verify this by having a card to try on yours or a computer to use your card in to check. you just don't know
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September 9, 2014 3:40:02 PM

As of now, it seems like it fixed itself somehow. I reinstalled the driver 3 times. But the last one I used ver. 335.23 which I started to have problems with in the first place. So I still haven't found the source of the problem.
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September 9, 2014 11:43:41 PM

It is better to immediately check the card on any other available PC (friends, colleagues, neighbors, computer service shop) and if it gives the same issue RMA it.

Don't stress test it for now.
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September 10, 2014 12:54:42 AM

Well i've been playing games for about 8 hours without running into any issues and seems to be working like normal. Had the gpu since cyber monday.
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September 10, 2014 5:35:46 AM

where did you get the drivers you been using?? it may be better to get them from the NVidia at the link I gave above and not from a 3ed party site
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September 10, 2014 9:50:54 AM

I get my drivers from the GeForce website I never used any other website.
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September 10, 2014 10:01:55 AM

NVidia seems like the first place to get there drivers [opinion] but that's your call
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