Hello everyone and thank you for your time helping everyone.
I hope you can help me some this riddle which bothers me so much..
My problem is this: My computer keeps crashing when playing games that require a graphics card. There is no specific time for when the crash will take place, sometimes it will be 10 minutes, sometimes 2 hours.
When a game crashes, the screen turns black with the sound playing for afew more moments afterwards. Most of the times it will go back to desktop and rarely it would freeze the computer altogether.
My rig is a Gigabyte 970GTX, i5 4460, Gigabyte GA-H81M-HD3 mobo and 8 gigs of ram.
Things i've tried so far that made no difference:
- I replaced the PSU with a more advanced and powerful one (600w)
- I replaced the ram
- I tried using the gfx card on a different pc (and it worked)
- I tried formatting the PC and reinstalling windows (tried both win7 and win 8.1).
- Tried several version Nvidia drivers
- Checked the heat, which was fine. All fans are working as well.
- Installed everything on SSD (because why not, atleast i can be sure its not a faulty harddrive).
I'd love to hear any more ideas, questions, thoughts. Please help me play games again!
I hope you can help me some this riddle which bothers me so much..
My problem is this: My computer keeps crashing when playing games that require a graphics card. There is no specific time for when the crash will take place, sometimes it will be 10 minutes, sometimes 2 hours.
When a game crashes, the screen turns black with the sound playing for afew more moments afterwards. Most of the times it will go back to desktop and rarely it would freeze the computer altogether.
My rig is a Gigabyte 970GTX, i5 4460, Gigabyte GA-H81M-HD3 mobo and 8 gigs of ram.
Things i've tried so far that made no difference:
- I replaced the PSU with a more advanced and powerful one (600w)
- I replaced the ram
- I tried using the gfx card on a different pc (and it worked)
- I tried formatting the PC and reinstalling windows (tried both win7 and win 8.1).
- Tried several version Nvidia drivers
- Checked the heat, which was fine. All fans are working as well.
- Installed everything on SSD (because why not, atleast i can be sure its not a faulty harddrive).
I'd love to hear any more ideas, questions, thoughts. Please help me play games again!
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