Hiya folks
Like many people who suffer from similar problems from time to time, over the last few days the "kernel driver stopped working" and "video hardware error" has been getting progressively worse. There were plenty of blue and black screens. It reached a point that it wouldn't load after the windows logo at startup. If it did load, everything was VERY slow and sluggish - totally out of character. At first I wasn't sure what the problem was. I tried formatting the PC, upgraded it to windows 10, got latest drivers etc, but none of it helped.
I managed to access the PC via Safe Mode and I uninstalled the drivers for my graphics card. The system was running on very basic video hardware - and suddenly all the problems vanished. I took my GPU out and fitted my monitor into the onboard graphics slot (Intel HD 3000) and again, no problems. I think I can safely say that the problem was the GPU. So, I am thinking of upgrading it to a newer one. These are my system stats:
PSU: TX 650 M (I'm not sure about wattage or voltage etc)
CPU: Intel Core i7-2600K @ 3.40GHz 3.40GHz
RAM: 8GB
System: Windows 10 64-bit
OLD GPU: gtx 550 Ti - (PCI-e 2.0 x16 slot)
After seeing these stats and my problem, firstly would you agree that the problem was the GPU? And secondly, what card would you advise as a replacement? When I type in any random card into a search engine it produces many different looking ones with different codes. I don't want to end up with one that isn't compatible with my system. Thank you very much for your time and help!
Kind regards
Like many people who suffer from similar problems from time to time, over the last few days the "kernel driver stopped working" and "video hardware error" has been getting progressively worse. There were plenty of blue and black screens. It reached a point that it wouldn't load after the windows logo at startup. If it did load, everything was VERY slow and sluggish - totally out of character. At first I wasn't sure what the problem was. I tried formatting the PC, upgraded it to windows 10, got latest drivers etc, but none of it helped.
I managed to access the PC via Safe Mode and I uninstalled the drivers for my graphics card. The system was running on very basic video hardware - and suddenly all the problems vanished. I took my GPU out and fitted my monitor into the onboard graphics slot (Intel HD 3000) and again, no problems. I think I can safely say that the problem was the GPU. So, I am thinking of upgrading it to a newer one. These are my system stats:
PSU: TX 650 M (I'm not sure about wattage or voltage etc)
CPU: Intel Core i7-2600K @ 3.40GHz 3.40GHz
RAM: 8GB
System: Windows 10 64-bit
OLD GPU: gtx 550 Ti - (PCI-e 2.0 x16 slot)
After seeing these stats and my problem, firstly would you agree that the problem was the GPU? And secondly, what card would you advise as a replacement? When I type in any random card into a search engine it produces many different looking ones with different codes. I don't want to end up with one that isn't compatible with my system. Thank you very much for your time and help!
Kind regards