Hi, i own a pre-built PC, which has a 300w stock PSU of course. Well my friend recently gave me his PNY GTX 650 which requires a better psu. So yesterday i added an XFX TS 550 soi could use the card. The psu works perfectly, so does the graphics card performance-wise. Yet 5-15 minutes into any game, i either get pink artifacts all over the screen, the screen goes black, or i get the "unable to recover from a kernel exception, application has to close. ERROR 3". When these things happen, the only way to fix it is restart my PC. Now i did some digging and it seems like a driver problem, yet the driver is up to date. So i decided to maybe try older drivers. they dont work either. I know its a graphics problem only, as i still hear music/sound during the freeze, no music skipping/repeating.
Any help would be appreciated. I know this is a long post but any of these things could be the issue, it seems too much a coincidence that this happens with a new psu, yet i have no way of knowing if its the PSU's fault, as i couldnt even play the card before now on my 300w.
My pc specs:
Intel I5 4440 3.1
6gb ram
an acer aspire computer
tried nvidia driver: 358.50, 358.87, and 355.98
i was able to get a pic of the pink artifacts on the screen during a crash in Civilization V:
http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=2zpmts7&s=9#.VjqgefmrSM8
I would really appreciate any help, as i'm kinda in a stuck position not being able to use any games
thanks,
Any help would be appreciated. I know this is a long post but any of these things could be the issue, it seems too much a coincidence that this happens with a new psu, yet i have no way of knowing if its the PSU's fault, as i couldnt even play the card before now on my 300w.
My pc specs:
Intel I5 4440 3.1
6gb ram
an acer aspire computer
tried nvidia driver: 358.50, 358.87, and 355.98
i was able to get a pic of the pink artifacts on the screen during a crash in Civilization V:
http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=2zpmts7&s=9#.VjqgefmrSM8
I would really appreciate any help, as i'm kinda in a stuck position not being able to use any games
thanks,
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