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Mikee1G

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Without my Geforce 760 SC, my pc runs just fine, but whenever I plug it in and use it after a while my pc blackscreens and sometimes corrupts windows boot. I tried to download drivers for it but halfway through the drivers, my pc crashes and restarts, sometimes causing me to reinstall windows 10. The graphics card worked fine until I was playing a game and it happened. I can use the computer without the graphics card and as I said, it works just fine.

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My pc specs:
Processor: AMD A8-6500 APU
Graphics card: Nvida geforce 760 (superclocked),
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-F2A88XM-D3HP
power supply: ULTRA 650W power supply,
Ram: Kingston HP69865 8gb
Hard drive: Seagate barricuda 1tb hard drive
 
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Superclocked? Ya doof you might have it clocked too high. When a GPU is clocked high it will crash windows, and if its not that its the drivers. You can use the computer without the GPU because integrated graphics in your CPU, so yeah try to un-overclock your GPU, and if it KEEPS crashing, boot in safe mode and download the drivers.
 
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Mikee1G

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the graphics card came out of the box superclocked. Is it possible that the psu is bad?

edit; I installed drivers in safe mode, everything went fine. When I installed GeForce Experience and started to install the game ready driver my pc crashed, I cant seem to find the issue
 
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Oh. and yes, maybe, because sometimes power supplies can go bad, and you may not be getting enough power to everything.
 
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I will try to get a new powersupply, its 5 years old but just to make sure, is there a problem with the graphics card?
 
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Might be considering you can run the computer fine without the graphics card. Try this though, take out your gpu, and then try to download drivers. If it crashes again its not the GPU
 
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Mikee1G

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Which drivers are you talking about? Graphics card drivers can only be downloaded with the card inserted.
 
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Well not exactly, I mean Nvidea might be different but I have an AMD card, I can download the driver without the card in, like for example AMD has that crimson software, I believe Nvidea has the same..

Yeah https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/geforce-experience/
 
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Mikee1G

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When trying to install without card inserted I get the message. "NVIDIA Geforce Experience requires an NVIDIA GPU. Refer to the system requirements.
 
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What are you talking about? His setup does not use 500W. I have a 500w and way better things that use way more power. If he isnt crashing when he unplugs his GPU, then its most likely not the PSU. If the PSU wasn't giving enough power it most likely wouldn't even boot up.

It doesnt need an 80+ rating either, and no ULTRA isnt some random company.Yeah its a bit old but I used to have a 9 year old PSU that ran great.


99.99999999% sure its NOT the power supply not giving it enough power. It MAY be the power supply, but its not from it not giving enough power, it may just be going bad, power supplies do that, for example the 6 pin on an old power supply I used to have stopped working and my GPU would work to a certain extent because my gpu uses an 8 pin and a 6 pin.
 
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You have an onboard ati card if i am correct without the nvidia you will get that error.Another thing to do is.Right click my computer/Manage.Then event viewer/Windows logs.Then either application/or system.Application will tell you if its the driver giving problems or not as it should give you a log entry on it.

PS:Get a monitoring program like adia64 to monitor voltage etc on your pc.

 
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Hmm, okay then. I thought that from some online reviews, and posts on this forum about that PSU that it is the cause.

http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/335329-28-ultra-650w-sufficient - This post shows it outputs 456W on 12v rails.
http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/279619-28-ultra-lsp650

Based on these and past experience, I made a post. But if you feel it is something else, I guess I may be wrong. Let us hope it is not the PSU.
 
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I would probably hope it is the PSU considering its probably the cheapest part of the whole build. But who knows. Owner of this thread needs to just test everything. Best thing is probably get a different power supply.
 
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I have looked on event viewer and I have found 4 instances of critical errors that all say: The system has rebooted without cleanly shutting down first. This error could be caused if the system stopped responding, crashed, or lost power unexpectedly.

Is this related to power supply or?

Hmm the thing is, when I installed regular card nvidia drivers, the card worked fine (or i thought so), but after installing the latest drivers, my pc crashed and wouldnt go into the windows login, it was just a black screen until i took out the card
 
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