- Jul 5, 2016
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I created this account on this site just to ask for help from people smarter than me. I'm at a complete loss guys. I am stumped. But I'll try to keep this short and to the point.
I recently obtained this desktop system, which is a decent kit really. It came installed with a nForce 680 SLI motherboard, 4 GBs of RAM, Intel Quad Core processor running at 2.4 ghz, and a crappy outdated video card. My grandfather gave it to me, assuming it just needed a new GPU. I tried getting it going with the one it had, a geforce 8500 GT, but it wasn't getting along with Windows 7. It would constantly get the "driver has stopped working and recovered" error, even just watching a video, and I could not get the drivers to install properly.
So the other day I went and bought a nVidia GeForce 730 GT. Not the highest end card I know, but I don't need this rig for hardcore gaming, I use console for that. I wanted this system for emulation like Dolphin 5.0, and hopefully to run Guild Wars 2. Everything I had heard about the 730 GT pointed to it being exactly what I needed.
So I got it installed, got the drivers going, did a fresh install of Windows 7 Pro, and... Couldn't even watch a dern YouTube video without the driver crashing. I had a thought that a couple of the RAM sticks had gone bad, so I switched them out for a couple of newer ones.
Eureka! I could watch videos! Problem solved right?? WRONG. I can't play anything on Dolphin, I can't keep Guild Wars 2 going for long before it crashes, hell even a complex website still shorts it out.
So, I naturally did the TdrDelay registry key trick. And oddly enough, it seemed to work great at first. Like, I was able to get past the cutscenes in 3 different games that had been crashing the driver. Then, suddenly, I couldn't anymore. I was so bummed. I've thought I had this fixed several times now, only for it to keep coming back. The TdrDelay key I put in the registry is still there, in fact it works because now the screen freezes for 10 seconds before I get the error message instead of the default 2.
I don't know what to do. I'd think this card might be bad if it wasn't for the other one doing the exact same thing. I asked my grandfather how old the power supply was, and he said it isn't any older than any other part. And it is plenty of wattage to supply the GPU.
Any insight would be tremendously appreciated. I really want this thing to work and I'm just getting so sick and tired of this error....
I should also note that I've reinstalled Windows 7 multiple times, also tried Windows 10 out a few. Same errors. And I have uninstalled and reinstalled the GPU drivers many many times, even tried an older one. That just made it worse.
Any ideas? Thanks in advance!
I recently obtained this desktop system, which is a decent kit really. It came installed with a nForce 680 SLI motherboard, 4 GBs of RAM, Intel Quad Core processor running at 2.4 ghz, and a crappy outdated video card. My grandfather gave it to me, assuming it just needed a new GPU. I tried getting it going with the one it had, a geforce 8500 GT, but it wasn't getting along with Windows 7. It would constantly get the "driver has stopped working and recovered" error, even just watching a video, and I could not get the drivers to install properly.
So the other day I went and bought a nVidia GeForce 730 GT. Not the highest end card I know, but I don't need this rig for hardcore gaming, I use console for that. I wanted this system for emulation like Dolphin 5.0, and hopefully to run Guild Wars 2. Everything I had heard about the 730 GT pointed to it being exactly what I needed.
So I got it installed, got the drivers going, did a fresh install of Windows 7 Pro, and... Couldn't even watch a dern YouTube video without the driver crashing. I had a thought that a couple of the RAM sticks had gone bad, so I switched them out for a couple of newer ones.
Eureka! I could watch videos! Problem solved right?? WRONG. I can't play anything on Dolphin, I can't keep Guild Wars 2 going for long before it crashes, hell even a complex website still shorts it out.
So, I naturally did the TdrDelay registry key trick. And oddly enough, it seemed to work great at first. Like, I was able to get past the cutscenes in 3 different games that had been crashing the driver. Then, suddenly, I couldn't anymore. I was so bummed. I've thought I had this fixed several times now, only for it to keep coming back. The TdrDelay key I put in the registry is still there, in fact it works because now the screen freezes for 10 seconds before I get the error message instead of the default 2.
I don't know what to do. I'd think this card might be bad if it wasn't for the other one doing the exact same thing. I asked my grandfather how old the power supply was, and he said it isn't any older than any other part. And it is plenty of wattage to supply the GPU.
Any insight would be tremendously appreciated. I really want this thing to work and I'm just getting so sick and tired of this error....
I should also note that I've reinstalled Windows 7 multiple times, also tried Windows 10 out a few. Same errors. And I have uninstalled and reinstalled the GPU drivers many many times, even tried an older one. That just made it worse.
Any ideas? Thanks in advance!
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