Hard freezes ( 9600GSO )

[haider95]

Sup guys. Here's the problem, since yesterday my GPU has been acting weird. I had it clocked at 850MHz but strangely enough didn't notice any fps increase in any of the games. I downclocked it a little and found that the GPU wasn't stable at those clocks which ticked me off. Since then i have the GPU at default yet im getting all kinds of hard freezes during graphically intense stuff like GPU tool stress testing. The only change i remember making is updating the GPU drivers. The card was running okay on a 250w psu but the freezes were too many. I got my CX430 PSU 2 days ago and it stopped the freezes until now. any idea whats going on guys?

 

[rdc85]

Try unplug the Card and cleaning it, then re-seat it...

 

[haider95]

Tried it didn't work .. it's been running okay for a while now. I un-installed ALL the drivers i had (from device manager and nvidias drivers from control panel) and let windows find me a Display driver. It says that the cards running 310 version of drivers. The latest ones are 3.4 something... but i guess those dont work for me

 

[maxinexus]

Sounds to me that you overdid it and now you paying the price. If still in warranty do RMA if not you are in market for a new video card.

 

[rdc85]

usually re-seat the card will reset the o.C. profile of the card make it runs at default setting again. but it seems not works in this case

btw If the old driver works fine then no need to update the new version of driver...

 

[haider95]

I never messed around with the voltage though. Cards running at 55-60c on load. It seems to be fixed atm i can play crysis 2 again and it doesn't die on me i think it was just the drivers conflicting