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CrystalSa

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hey guys,

i have a gtx 470 card that was running great for 6 years on this reg:
core i5 2400 3.1
8 gb ram
intel Montherboad DH67BL
1.5 TB HDD
Huntkey Balance King 600W (i know its not that good , but its been working 6 years till now with no issues)

last week i started getting driver crash once in 2 days then it started to regularly happen daily , at last i uninstalled the driver . then reinstalled it , bing the pc just reboots not getting into windows with blue screens , i installed a clean copy of windows 7 and tried it , before i install the driver all works great , when i tried to (it gave me always "driver failed to install") , and sometimes i got weird colors on the screen , i borrowed a gt240 from my friend and tried it , and all works great .

is the only possible thing is that the GPU is dead? could it be the psu ?
but keep in mind most of the crashed happened on idle i was just browsing no stress on the card or psu.

thanks
 
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DSzymborski
I suspect the GPU's on its last legs, very possibly slowly damaged over the long-term by the PSU. Junk PSUs don't just screw up by failing spectacularly. For example, poor ripple suppression, a staple of these low-end products, tends to slowly murder the electrolytic capacitors on anything using the power supply - after six years of this PSU there's a good chance there's some damage beyond age to your components that's not immediately obvious to an observer.
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actually i was getting a blue screen sometimes , but after a while it disappeared :p , and the graphic card still did not boot up to the windows .
 
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I suspect the GPU's on its last legs, very possibly slowly damaged over the long-term by the PSU. Junk PSUs don't just screw up by failing spectacularly. For example, poor ripple suppression, a staple of these low-end products, tends to slowly murder the electrolytic capacitors on anything using the power supply - after six years of this PSU there's a good chance there's some damage beyond age to your components that's not immediately obvious to an observer.
 
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CrystalSa

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aha thank you for your answer , i will first check the card using another reg , if it worked i will change the psu immediately if not i will buy a new psu and a new GPU
 
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CrystalSa

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aha thank you for your answer , i will first check the card using another reg , if it worked i will change the psu immediately if not i will buy a new psu and a new GPU
 
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