A Cry For Help.

Actually, I had an idea last night and only just thought of it.

What does anyone think about taking my graphics card out of my machine and putting it in my sons.

My thinking is, if I put my 460 into my sons machine and then the problem is replicated in their machine, then could that point to some kind of issue with the graphics card?

If there are inherent risks at trying this though, I won't bother.
 
Sometimes the only way to fault find is to swap components into known good systems. There is a small amount of risk, but only a very small one and in your case I'd say extremely small as its just a stability issue not an actually totally failed component.
 
only real risk is from you damaging then cards when moving them. If it was a borked PSU then you have a higher risk as it might fry something in the test system too.

If that doesnt help, and the GPU doesnt help, try having a different hdd in there, with only that one in it. Had a hdd die on me recently, but before that my system had started to crash randomly (since discovered it was just hanging for around 10 mins), when the drive failed and i took it out, all problems went away, even the errors in memtest telling my every stick of RAM i had, had simultaneously died....

Dont only test your gpu in his system, put his in yours at the same time.

Could be a PSU issue as well, or maybe a mobo being stupid. At this point we are starting to run out of easy ways of diagnosing a problem :(
 
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