Is my GTX 590 dead?

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So, recently i've ran into a problem with my graphics card which caused my computer to shut down, and not giving me the ability to get past the windows 10 boot screen (it just keeps restarting). Sometimes it would give me a blue screen error "unmountable boot volume". I could get into my computer with onboard graphics, but I decided to reset and reinstall windows on my SSD, just in case. It seemed to work in a way, I'm now running off my GPU, but it's not going to function properly - ie screen resolution, if I dont install the drivers. When I go to install the drivers, it restarts the computer halfway through the process, and then boots up like nothing happened? How do I solve this - i can't install the drivers for my GPU otherwise it crashes.

I don't really have the cash to upgrade - so I'm desperate.
 
Hi, what power supply do you have? That BSOD about Boot volume didnt have anything to do with ur GPU luckily, more likely with your drives. But the windows reinstall may have fixed that. Im thinking maybe your power supply is dying, afterall, the 590 is a very power hungry card.
 

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Hey, its an Antec VP 700W PSU, however another option it may be is the SSD that i'm running, its a fairly cheap brand, although im not sure if that affects the problem i'm having in any way.
 

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Yeh pretty sure it's the GPU, because I can boot the computer fine using on board graphics?

Edit: didnt mean to pick you as best answer :)
 

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This exactly happened to me yesterday but I tried the graphics card on another PC and it worked so fine. Try the following and it wouldn't give you the unmountable boot BSOD.

Put in the windows CD into the CD Drive and boot from it. Then go for advanced options and choose "command prompt" then type chkdsk C: /f /r /x and wait for the disk checking process to finish (It takes time) then it should boot normally.