Games crash unexpectedly. Tried almost everything

Muhammad Inam

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Sep 7, 2015
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Hi, I bought a new g.card evga gtx970 ssc 4gb. When I play any game it runs for like 30-45 minutes and then crashes. First i thought my hdd was faulty coz it was making grinding kind of sounds so I bought a new seagate 2tb. No effect. Then I noticed that while gaming my g.card was reaching 75C but back to 45 when idle. googled it and everyone was saying that it was normal. I then rolled back to drivers that came up with the card 347 just in case if it was due to drivers. No effect so I did a fresh install of latest drivers. Then I updated my bios to latest version just in case if bios was causing any problem in detection or something. Still no solution. At the end I was left with nothing but to buy a new psu just in case if psu was faulty. I bought corsair cs750. No solution. I cant understand whats the problem. I even did a clean install of windows on completely formatted hdd that even didn't sopved the problem.

One thing that I have noticed is that while playing for the first time after like 6-7 hrs, the game runs for like 45 minutes but after the first crash, game runs for like only 2-3 mins.

What should i do? Please please help me


My Pc specs:
Asus P8Z77VL-K
Intel Core i5 3470 3.2 GHz
Kingston 8Gb HyperX
Evga Gtx 970 Ssc acx 2.0
2TB seagate 7200rpm sata3
Corsair CS750M
 
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Sounds like a problem with the gpu man. I assume the error you're getting is kernel event power 41? You can check this by going to windows event logs.

You've already ruled out the other possible causes which was drivers, software conflicts, and the psu. The next thing you can test is the memory. Download memtest and see if it comes back with any errors.

The memory or the gpu is the last thing it can be. I'm thinking it's the gpu, so you'll probably have to rma it.

Mysticking32

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Sounds like a problem with the gpu man. I assume the error you're getting is kernel event power 41? You can check this by going to windows event logs.

You've already ruled out the other possible causes which was drivers, software conflicts, and the psu. The next thing you can test is the memory. Download memtest and see if it comes back with any errors.

The memory or the gpu is the last thing it can be. I'm thinking it's the gpu, so you'll probably have to rma it.
 
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