GTX 770 random Crash

Ecatombe

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Hello!
So, this happened to me in the last days:
Installed 344.11 drivers, played Shadow of Mordor with no problems for a few hours, then tabbed to the internet for some mins, heard the GPU fan stopping...
At this point, that sounded strange to me, and I tabbed back ingame. Boom! Pc restarts. Played again with no problems for some time.
The day after, while I was just browsing on facebook, I heard the GPU fan stopping again...
Tried to launch anything that could make the GPU work, and Boom! Pc restarts.
The morning after, my pc wasn't even booting.
I removed the GPU, and tried booying with my old one (HD 6950), everything seemed to work again.
At that point, I couldn't accept the death of my 2-months-old GPU and went for a last solution: I uninstalled every driver, reconnected my 770 and installed the 337.88 build.
Now it seems to work again, but I'm afraid of what happened, my pc not booting doesn't simply mean a drivers problem to me.
Hope you guys can help, today I heard again that the fan stopped, checked MSI Afterburner and it said the fan speed was still 38%, I didn't believe in that so I opened Rivatuner, and... The fan restarted, BUT as soon as I started a game, pc crashed...
I heard updating BIOS could help, but the program I got from ASUS website says "This patch does not support this card!"
Sorry for the wall of text, I really have no ideas but sending it back for RMA :(((
 

Ecatombe

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The first time was with Shadow of Mordor, then 2 times pc crashed with World of Warcraft.
I also noticed that the BIOS is already updated.
How can I understand if that's just a GPU problem or coming from another component?
 

TStahler

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If the 6950 tested fine and the only component that changed was substituting it for a 770, then I would RMA the card. Seems like the problem only occured when you installed the 770 instead of the 6950. So, If everything else runs fine, replace the card and go from there. The factory should still have a warranty on it.
 

Ecatombe

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The fact is that it's not happening as soon as you play or get the GPU under heavy load (did also some stability test with OCCT), it's really random, if I want to really test with the 6950, I should do it for some days.
The card has been fine for 2 months,
 

Ecatombe

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So, before i was going to bed, i heard again the fan stopping, launched a random game to see the result and obviously the pc crashed...
But this time it wont reboot again! I removed the gpu, still no boot.
So i reinstalled the previous psu, a low quality one, and the system started correctly (still without the 770, i dont think the psu could handle it)...
Can i assume it was just a psu problem now?
Thanks in advance!
 

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