Strange computer crashes; I believe it to be a video card issue

Blisslen

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Computer Specs:

CPU: AMD Athlon X4 760K
MoBo: ASUS A88XM-A
GPU: MSi GTX650
PSU: Cooler Master Extreme Power Plus 500W
Memory: 6Gb of Stock DDR3, unknown make/model
Storage: ~200Gb C: , 2TB D:
OS: Windows 8.1

Issues:

  • Trouble booting, computer sometimes gets a "Windows failed to boot" screen on boot, and sometimes doesn't get past BIOS at all.

    Occasional periods where the screen just goes blank, accompanied by something like "Nvidia unable to recover after kernel exception"

    Computer freezes, I wiggle my mouse around, nothing moves, screen goes black, fans turn off and computer reboots.

First and third issues have been happening a while now, second issue has only happened after I started using my Corsair K95 RGB keyboard

 
Solution
Turn on your computer. Press and hold F8 until you are in safe mode. Select Safe Mode with Networking.

Uninstall your Nvidia drivers. All of them. Reboot and again go into Safe Mode again... This time, download the latest Nvidia drivers from the Nvidia web site, and install them. Reboot like normal into windows. This may not resolve all of your issues, but it should fix the second one, and possibly more of them.

After that, I would download Malwarebytes and CCleaner and run them.

http://www.malwarebytes.org/
http://www.piriform.com/ccleaner/download

Hopefully between the three things, your system will be a bit better off.
Turn on your computer. Press and hold F8 until you are in safe mode. Select Safe Mode with Networking.

Uninstall your Nvidia drivers. All of them. Reboot and again go into Safe Mode again... This time, download the latest Nvidia drivers from the Nvidia web site, and install them. Reboot like normal into windows. This may not resolve all of your issues, but it should fix the second one, and possibly more of them.

After that, I would download Malwarebytes and CCleaner and run them.

http://www.malwarebytes.org/
http://www.piriform.com/ccleaner/download

Hopefully between the three things, your system will be a bit better off.
 
Solution

Blisslen

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Looks like it was just a driver issue; thanks!