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About 2 weeks ago my computer started to blue screen, about twice a week. About two days ago I started getting them more frequently, maybe once every couple of hours or so. I decided to reinstall my OS to see if that would fix the problem. I have a SSD that I have running my OS and a 1Tb HDD for data. I reformatted both of them to start fresh. The OS reinstall went fine, and I went without a blue screen for a few days. Today my PC is useless, constant crashing along with barely being able to boot. Almost every boot comes to a black screen with a blinking cursor in the top left. When I do get it to work it blue screens after about an hour. I tried changing SATA cables to no avail, also tried switching SATA ports to see if maybe one went bad, didn't work. So I thought it may be my SSD, completely removed it and tried installing the OS on my HDD. The installer will see the drive for a few seconds and then it disappears from the menu and its acting like it can't find any drives. Wondering if anyone could help me because I'm lost.

Specs are:
Nvidia GTX 980
Intel i7 4790k
16Gb DDR3 RAM
750w EVGA PSU
120GB PNY SSD
1TB Western Digital HDD
Windows 7 Home premium 64x
Asus Z97-A Motherboard

Thanks in advance for the help.
 
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Yeah, that's a good unit. Same EXACT power supply that's in my system. Probably not the issue. Although, ANY power supply can come off the assembly line with a problem or develop one, as with all electronics.

Try removing the GPU card from the system and using the integrated graphics to see if the problem disappears. If it does, try reinstalling the GPU card and running the DDU along with installing the Nvidia 355.60 drivers, NOT the most recent drivers, as a lot of people are experiencing issues with those drivers.

355.60: http://www.nvidia.com/download/driverResults.aspx/89125/en-us


Clean graphics card driver install: http://www.tomshardware.com/faq/id-2767677/clean-graphics-driver-install-windows.html
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It's about 5 months old, as is the whole system. On the box it says, EVGA Supernova 750 G2, 80 PLUS Gold.
 
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Yeah, that's a good unit. Same EXACT power supply that's in my system. Probably not the issue. Although, ANY power supply can come off the assembly line with a problem or develop one, as with all electronics.

Try removing the GPU card from the system and using the integrated graphics to see if the problem disappears. If it does, try reinstalling the GPU card and running the DDU along with installing the Nvidia 355.60 drivers, NOT the most recent drivers, as a lot of people are experiencing issues with those drivers.

355.60: http://www.nvidia.com/download/driverResults.aspx/89125/en-us


Clean graphics card driver install: http://www.tomshardware.com/faq/id-2767677/clean-graphics-driver-install-windows.html
 
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I did as suggested and this actually seems to have worked. I've had about 10 reboots by now and haven't encountered the problem again, no crashes either but haven't had much time to see if that will happen again. Thanks though, Video Card drivers definitely didn't come to mind.
 
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