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Display Driver crashing - same problem for 3 years, multiple hardware swaps.

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  • Blue Screen
  • Crash
  • Hardware
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  • Graphics Cards
  • Display
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September 16, 2014 5:11:55 PM

Hey guys,

Hopefully I'm posting in the right place.

I know I'm reaching a bit especially as I can't share all the technical details right now (but can when I'm home next) however I've had a problem thats been reoccuring for 3 years now with no idea how to fix it.

If I'm playing games or anything that might require a decent bit of power, after a while my computers display driver appears to crash with the message "The Nvidia display driver has stoped working", and I have to restart the PC or sometimes can close and reopen the application for it to work again. The weird part is, I get the same issue with the graphics card removed from the PC and running off the CPU onboard graphics. The CPU being an Intel i7 2660k from memory. With the onboard I start noticing little graphical errors similar to when a video card is failing but apart from that it will crash in the same way with the screen going black, and then starting again - except with the CPU onboard it doesn't give the 'Nvidia' message.

Now, I have tried a lot of different hardware and a LOT of different driver configurations along with many fresh Windows installs. Just to give an example of the different things ive tried and got:

- Motherboard sent for repair, wasn't replaced, but was tested and found to be working fine
- CPU replaced with a brand new one
- Graphics card replaced twice with new ones, also purchased a brand new one
- PSU (Nice 750w one) I replaced with another new 750w PSU
- Multiple reinstalls of windows, trying both Windows 8 and 7
- New sticks of RAM and independently testing each one
- Checked any kind of overheating as well with each component (furmark, prime95 etc)
- Underclocked components also just incase
- Purchased an SSD - not really related to the problems though, just wanted one :)  - and ran everything off that without any other HD's plugged in just to test. Still got the same error running off that.
- Tested 3 different monitors with different cables

Worth noting that when I run Prime95 that it does occasionally crash.

I know you guys will probably need a crash report from Windows and things like Prime95 so I can hopefully provide this when I stop by the flat in a day, but does anyone have any ideas? I'm seriously willing to try anything as this problem is driving me crazy! I figure there must be some kind of faulty hardware, but I've replaced everything I can think of, except maybe getting a brand new motherboard (though in New Zealand they dont sell any for my CPU socket anymore anyway)

Cheers!

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September 16, 2014 5:35:05 PM

NZ here too. Is the onboard video Nvidia as well?? if it isnt did you uninstall the Nvidia drivers, before you removed the card you installed?

Whats the brand/model of the mobo?
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September 16, 2014 5:54:30 PM

Paul NZ said:
NZ here too. Is the onboard video Nvidia as well?? if it isnt did you uninstall the Nvidia drivers, before you removed the card you installed?

Whats the brand/model of the mobo?


Hey Paul, the onboard 'graphics' run direct from the CPU (so its not Nvidia related at least for the CPU as far as I'm aware) - while I did uninstall and reinstall Nvidia drivers with new cards I also reformatted quite a few times with freshly installed drivers, testing both newer Nvidia drivers and older (in some cases, just to experiment) quite a lot older drivers. Each time I did this I would clear out existing video drivers.

While I cant remember what the motherboards model number is, I can get all those technical specs once im home next. I do know it was an Asus at the very least.

Sorry! Maybe it was best if I waited till I had ALL the technical specs along with a crash report for everyone.
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September 16, 2014 5:58:20 PM

Its probably Intel HD graphics. That's what most Intel CPU's with Integrated gfx support
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