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Graphics card on its last legs?

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Hi,

just recently my PC seems to be crashing daily and it's seems to be a video problem. I first noticed an issue when my monitors randomly went black for a good 10 seconds before coming back on with a message stating something like 'your graphics driver failed and has had to recover'. Can't remember the exact message but something along those lines.

On other occasions (and now every time) when I play a video on youtube, the PC totally shuts down although there is still some power as the LEDs remain on on my case. I then have to turn it off at the wall socket and boot it up agai. I am then obviously faced with the message saying windows wasn't shut down properly.

Upon reboot I get a message saying windows suffered a serious failure and the following:

Code:
Problem signature:
  Problem Event Name:	BlueScreen
  OS Version:	6.1.7601.2.1.0.768.3
  Locale ID:	2057

Additional information about the problem:
  BCCode:	116
  BCP1:	FFFFFA800549A4E0
  BCP2:	FFFFF8800FE48AE4
  BCP3:	FFFFFFFFC000009A
  BCP4:	0000000000000004
  OS Version:	6_1_7601
  Service Pack:	1_0
  Product:	768_1

Files that help describe the problem:
  C:\Windows\Minidump\020912-31637-01.dmp
  E:\Temp\WER-32963-0.sysdata.xml

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I have removed and installed the latest nvidia drivers and also done the same with firefox - thinking it might be a plugin problem as it's always when I go onto youtube but neither seems to have worked. Any ideas going forward?

Thanks
 
Is this your system in your sig?

Was this only with the latest NVIDIA 295.51 drivers? I found those unstable and rolled back to 290.53.

Tried reverting everything back to stock settings yet?
 
Yeah that's my system. My drivers were dated back to July 2011 I think but the problem only started a couple of days ago really. I have updated them to 285.62 just now but still the same problem.

Not reverted to stock settings. How do you mean?

Cheers.
 
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