Constant Display Driver Crashes - GTX 770

prizna123

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Apr 11, 2013
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I have been posting about this problem in various forums but have barely gotten a response, or suggestion to my issue, hoping that maybe someone here can shed some light on my problem.

For a while now I have been having quite a few problems with my GPU (GTX 770) I have used DDU to uninstall my drivers and performed a clean install but the problem still persists. I have also run a memtest for 8 passes with no errors.

problems include:

Driver Crashes
FPS drops
BSOD
Monitors going to black and not coming back on


I have been receiving many driver crashes (Display driver stopped responding and has recovered) sometimes my monitors will go to black and not come back on, if I was watching something at the time I can still hear the audio, but the monitors will remain off, forcing me to restart my computer.

I have also received a few BSOD as well as FPS issues.

Checking reliability manager there are 3 main errors I am receiving:

LiveKernalEvent Code 117
LiveKernalEvent Code 141
LiveKernalEvent Code 187


Almost without fail, I will receive a driver crash within the first 5 minutes of launching a game after freshly booting my PC in the morning, after this initial crash it is unknown as to when the next crash will be, sometimes I won't receive another for the day, other times I will receive more at random times, but the first crash is almost guaranteed within the first 5 minutes.

I would like to add that I also receive these driver crashes just while browsing, I don't have to be playing a game for these crashes to occur. I actually received the driver crash this morning within 5 seconds of entering in my password to login to windows.

From searching online, other than a GPU issue I believe this may be related to a failing PSU, Motherboard or RAM, I am currently at a loss as what/how I should troubleshoot next to get to the bottom of this issue.


Any help would be greatly appreciated.

thanks,

OS: Windows 10 Home
Motherboard: Gigabyte Z68A-D3H-B3 rev1.0
Memory: 8gb
Graphics Card: Geforce GTX 770
 

prizna123

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Apr 11, 2013
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It might take me a while to test that as I don't really have access to another computer right now, but when I do I will report back here.

Just one thing I am very curious about is the fact that the driver always seems to crash shortly after I freshly boot up my PC and then there is usually no more crashes for the day.
Rebooting after this initial crash doesn't cause another crash either, so it seems that the crash occurs after a cold boot, I feel that this could be the key to finding out what the cause is as it is a very consistent crash for the most part.