Hey guys I've been having a pretty serious issue with my system as of late, my PC freezes up when I'm playing video games (LoL / Titanfall / WoW)becoming totally unresponsive but the sound continues. I can even continue speaking on skype during the crash, then the monitor shuts down but the tower continues to be powered on until I am forced to shut it down manually.
Sometimes I can also get blue screens stating that the display driver took too long to respond or a pop up on reboot from the control center saying the PC was shut down due to a display driver not responding but has no recovered.
My card temperature is always good around 35c idle and 50 under load.
I have tried a few things so far, I've cleaned the dust from inside the case, I've tried increasing the delay on the GPU timeout detection, I've re installed directX and downloaded the latest display drivers.
My PC specs are:
Processor: i5-2500k @ 3.3GHz
RAM: 4GB
GPU: AMD Radeon HD 6950
PSU: 550W
Mobo: Gigabyte Z68AP-D3
I've read around a bit but am stumped on what to do now, I tried to downclock my processor from 4.4GHz through the bios but I'm still getting problems.
The problem is very sporadic, I played for almost a full week without a single problem last week then I was away for a few days visiting friends, I come back and it froze up twice within half an hour. I installed a windows update and it worked well for the rest of the day, now today I boot up and its crashed about 7 times already. Once was playing WoW, then I had to go through startup repair for 15 mins to boot windows, then the pc crashed again loadng up chrome. Then its just been on and off crashing, its remained stable for the last hour now though.
Would appreciate any advice or possible solutions to help rectify this, I'm hoping its a software issue rather than a hardware issue. Thanks in advance!
Sometimes I can also get blue screens stating that the display driver took too long to respond or a pop up on reboot from the control center saying the PC was shut down due to a display driver not responding but has no recovered.
My card temperature is always good around 35c idle and 50 under load.
I have tried a few things so far, I've cleaned the dust from inside the case, I've tried increasing the delay on the GPU timeout detection, I've re installed directX and downloaded the latest display drivers.
My PC specs are:
Processor: i5-2500k @ 3.3GHz
RAM: 4GB
GPU: AMD Radeon HD 6950
PSU: 550W
Mobo: Gigabyte Z68AP-D3
I've read around a bit but am stumped on what to do now, I tried to downclock my processor from 4.4GHz through the bios but I'm still getting problems.
The problem is very sporadic, I played for almost a full week without a single problem last week then I was away for a few days visiting friends, I come back and it froze up twice within half an hour. I installed a windows update and it worked well for the rest of the day, now today I boot up and its crashed about 7 times already. Once was playing WoW, then I had to go through startup repair for 15 mins to boot windows, then the pc crashed again loadng up chrome. Then its just been on and off crashing, its remained stable for the last hour now though.
Would appreciate any advice or possible solutions to help rectify this, I'm hoping its a software issue rather than a hardware issue. Thanks in advance!