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Problem description: Short version: my graphics card will suddenly stop working (under load I guess?), Intel GPU seems fine Longer version: Turned off PC on Thursday as usual. On Friday, while browsing the display goes into standby. PC is still on but there's no video. I hold the power button for 4 seconds to kill the PC and try to reboot, still no video.I kill the PC again and turn off the power then turn the PC on again. Still no video. I take the DVI cable and connect it to the port on the mainboard instead and am now greeted with a boot loader error message but can continue into windows. When checking the device manager, the graphics card is not listed. I shut down the PC, remove all cables from the back and start cleaning the tower with a vacuum. Case is a BitFenix Shinobi, the power supply is at the bottom and it sucks the air from underneath into the computer. Lots of dust/lint under the case. After putting everything back together again, the card is working again. However after like 5 minutes the display goes black for a second and I get "Display driver stopped responding and has recovered" notifications. I update the driver to the newest version through the NVIDIA experience application (or whatever it's called). Still get notifications every few minutes. After a few the display goes black again. The music in the background goes into an error loop. I shut down the PC and start to work on the Laptop. A bios update doesn't help either. On Saturday the display goes black again during a build in Android Studio. Had to leave anyway so I kill the PC and get going. On Sunday I install another driver update (like ***.39 to .69 ) but it still get a black screen. I remove the card and install the intel video drivers. Everything seems to work since then. Attempted fixes: BIOS update driver update, twice removed card which worked I guess? Recent changes: None as far as I know -- Operating system: Windows 7 Pro 64bit System specs: Self-built MB ASRock B85M Pro4 Intel B85 CPU Intel Core i5 4670 4x 3.40GHz PSU 450 Watt Seasonic G-Series Modular 80+ Gold GPU MSI 2GB D5 X GTX760 OC Twin Frozr R 2 x 4GB Corsair XMS3 (IIRC, gonna check again when I get home but I'm pretty sure) Location: Germany I have Googled and read the FAQ: Yes Googling hasn't really turned up anything. Either the PSU is broken. Or the card. Or the RAM. Or maybe I should reinstall Windows. Personally I lean towards the PSU since it only seems to be happening during load. Maybe. I don't know. Hadn't had time to check the memory yet but I also don't think that it's the cause. Any information that would help further? Sereri fucked around with this message at 14:57 on Jul 11, 2016 |
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Jul 11, 2016 14:02
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My opinion is that the card is likely dying. I would verify the system can complete at least one full pass of Memtest86+ without errors though.
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Jul 11, 2016 16:02
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Sounds reasonable, I will report back.
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Jul 11, 2016 16:30
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Ran 2 passes, no errors Ram was actually 4x2GB, I was thinking of another PC I guess, doesn't matter.
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Jul 11, 2016 19:22
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The only sure-fire fix for me whenever I've had that "display driver not responding error" is to roll back to a previous restore point. That has fixed my problems every time.
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Jul 12, 2016 03:45
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