Installing graphics drivers causes reboots

Kercyn

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Greetings.

I've had an ATI Radeon 4850 HD card for around 7 years. A few months ago, I tried replacing it with an Nvidia GT 630. After installing the latest card drivers, my computer would reboot shortly after getting into Windows (with times varying between 2 and 30 minutes). It's worth mentioning that the card works on another computer without any problems.

I got a new Nvidia GeForce GTX 750Ti today and tried my luck with it. Now the computer would restart while it was on Windows' loading screen. I performed a clean installation of Windows, and I was now able to install the drivers from the accompanying CD. The same problem occured again, the computer now restarts a couple of seconds after it gets on Windows.

I tried replacing the RAM modules with others in case it was a RAM problem but the problem persists. I also tried inserting the cards into different PCIe slots just in case.

My computer's mobo is a GIGABYTE P55-UD3R (not sure about the revision) with the latest drivers installed and my PSU is a Corsair 550W CMPSU-550VXEU.

The other computer's mobo is a GIGABYTE H77M-D3H (again, not sure about the revision) and its PSU is a Thermaltake TR2 RX Cable Management 550W.

Do you have any idea what might be wrong? I (and the friend who sent me here :p ) suspect it's a motherboard problem but I would also like the opinion of more experienced people.

Thank you for your time!

EDIT: I also used the free version of Driver Booster to update any outdated drivers, which I did but the problem remains.
 
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Don't use Driver Booster. You're better off spending 5 minutes downloading from the manufacturer or straight from nVidia. These drivers aren't verified and if they are, who did verified them? You may install GeForce Experience to update graphics drivers for you (at least the download part ._. ) and Intel also have auto update utility...
I used Driver Booster before and it installed wrong chipset driver. It did the same things rebooting and stuff. My guess is it's installing wrong drivers :)

Herobrine

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Don't use Driver Booster. You're better off spending 5 minutes downloading from the manufacturer or straight from nVidia. These drivers aren't verified and if they are, who did verified them? You may install GeForce Experience to update graphics drivers for you (at least the download part ._. ) and Intel also have auto update utility...
I used Driver Booster before and it installed wrong chipset driver. It did the same things rebooting and stuff. My guess is it's installing wrong drivers :)
 
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