- Jan 9, 2011
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Hi guys,
It's going to be a long post so I'd be grateful if you'd lend your valuable time to read and help.
MY RIG: (I'M OLD SCHOOL!)
CPU: Intel (1st gen) core i3 540
MOBO: Gigabyte H55M-S2V
PSU: Gigabyte 620w superb E620
RAM: 2x2 GB of DDR3 Ram (1333 bus)
GPU: Gigabyte Nvidia GTX 660 2GB DDR5
OS: Windows 7 Ultimate
Okay so, My computer was running fine since February when suddenly I noticed that it fails to shut down completely. I mean, It shuts down but the power light keeps on and all the fans (including the GPU's) keeps running unless I turn off my PSU or unplug the main cable. This continued for a bit, and I kind of developed a habit of pulling the plug. But the main problem happened couple of months later. My PC started to randomly crash out of a game with an error: "Graphics card driver stopped working and recovered successfully". I updated the Nvidia drivers to the latest iteration but the problem persisted and became more frequent and now it hard reboots while gaming. Within a couple of days my computer became almost unusable with random reboots even without gaming. I searched the internet and updated my drivers again, updated my MOBO BIOS although it was working wonderfully before, restored my windows and my CPU overclock to the default but with no avail.
I removed my GTX 660 and turned on the On-board GPU in BIOS and installed the drivers, Now it's working fine (Shut down problem still persists) but I couldn't game on it. I did some breadboarding but couldn't figure it out as my mobo sometimes beeps and the next time it's just silent! :/ What's up with that?!
Anyway, So I tried searching for hardware defects. I tried a Corsair CX450 and the shut down problem persisted. Used my Gigabyte PSU on a different rig and it worked fine.
My friend is running my GTX 660 without any hiccups.
So, if it's not the PSU or GPU it must be the MOBO. I don't have an H55 chipset lying around so I think I have to look for one online and buy it. As everything works okay except gaming I'm ruling out any processor defects. I've seen in one of the online forums that some guy's problems (almost same as mine) persisted even after changing the motherboard.
Is there any way to solve this without buying one cause I'll be moving abroad later this year and I don't want to spend too much on my old rig. I do have a laptop but I use my desktop for mostly light gaming.
Thank you so much for patiently reading this long post. Any help or suggestion is appreciated. Thanks in advance.
--F.A.
It's going to be a long post so I'd be grateful if you'd lend your valuable time to read and help.
MY RIG: (I'M OLD SCHOOL!)
CPU: Intel (1st gen) core i3 540
MOBO: Gigabyte H55M-S2V
PSU: Gigabyte 620w superb E620
RAM: 2x2 GB of DDR3 Ram (1333 bus)
GPU: Gigabyte Nvidia GTX 660 2GB DDR5
OS: Windows 7 Ultimate
Okay so, My computer was running fine since February when suddenly I noticed that it fails to shut down completely. I mean, It shuts down but the power light keeps on and all the fans (including the GPU's) keeps running unless I turn off my PSU or unplug the main cable. This continued for a bit, and I kind of developed a habit of pulling the plug. But the main problem happened couple of months later. My PC started to randomly crash out of a game with an error: "Graphics card driver stopped working and recovered successfully". I updated the Nvidia drivers to the latest iteration but the problem persisted and became more frequent and now it hard reboots while gaming. Within a couple of days my computer became almost unusable with random reboots even without gaming. I searched the internet and updated my drivers again, updated my MOBO BIOS although it was working wonderfully before, restored my windows and my CPU overclock to the default but with no avail.
I removed my GTX 660 and turned on the On-board GPU in BIOS and installed the drivers, Now it's working fine (Shut down problem still persists) but I couldn't game on it. I did some breadboarding but couldn't figure it out as my mobo sometimes beeps and the next time it's just silent! :/ What's up with that?!
Anyway, So I tried searching for hardware defects. I tried a Corsair CX450 and the shut down problem persisted. Used my Gigabyte PSU on a different rig and it worked fine.
My friend is running my GTX 660 without any hiccups.
So, if it's not the PSU or GPU it must be the MOBO. I don't have an H55 chipset lying around so I think I have to look for one online and buy it. As everything works okay except gaming I'm ruling out any processor defects. I've seen in one of the online forums that some guy's problems (almost same as mine) persisted even after changing the motherboard.
Is there any way to solve this without buying one cause I'll be moving abroad later this year and I don't want to spend too much on my old rig. I do have a laptop but I use my desktop for mostly light gaming.
Thank you so much for patiently reading this long post. Any help or suggestion is appreciated. Thanks in advance.
--F.A.
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