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graphics card crashing every 20 minutes in games

tom91x91

tom91x91

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This has only started happening since i put my q6600 in but i dont think thats the problem, at first i would be playing a game, then after 20 minutes the graphics card fan would go silent and the screen go black, then get a message saying display driver has stopped responding and has recovered or something along them lines. Now when it happens it doesnt even recover, and i have to restart.

Ive removed the drivers twice with driver sweeper (which itself kept crashing, it took a few goes, although i think i clicked chipset drivers too :eek:), then installed the drivers again (wouldnt let me do it in normal windows, only safe mode).

Its still happening and is very frustrating :mad:

Any suggestions as to what could be causing it? Ive tried resseting overclocks but still the same result.

Thanks
 
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In bad company 2 (my most cpu intensive game) the cpu temps never go above 60. I would have thought this is a problem with the card or drivers rather than cpu?
 
Sorry for double post, but i resat my heatsink, everything in that department is fine, its still happening, 20 minutes into a game my gpu fans just go quiet and the game stops working. You dont think my power supply might be using a bit too much power when gaming maybe?
 
Lowered the overclock from 830 to 780 (the default for this card) and just had a few smooth games of bad company, maybe an unstable OC? Seems odd though as its a msi hawk version.

Temps are 45c max in games.

Thanks for the help :)
 
Does this sound graphics card related:

Today it took 4-5 trys turning my PC on to get the display showing (the pc would turn on fine but nothing show on the monitor), plus two of the times i started it a weird sound was coming from the graphics card fan (i think).
 
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been running it at 3.2 and 3.4 both are fine running prime, but yes maybe you're right as im running 4 sticks of ram which i think can make it unstable.

Its actually been ok today, seems random :confused:
 
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