Hello everyone,
This my first post on these forums. I'm hoping you guys can help me out! I know a bit about PC's but I need some help from you guys in the know with my problem. Here we go.....
So in June last year I bought my second ever PC. I had a real dog of a PC before, which I had for 7 years without a problem really, until the HDD died one day. So I decided to go all out and get a real mans PC. OCUK had been recommended to me by lots of people so I placed my order:
Intel i5 2500k Sandybridge @ 4.30 GHz
Corsair H50 CPU Cooler
Gigabyte P67A-UD3-B3
8GB RAM
1GB Asus (NVidia) GTX560Ti
Western Digital 500GB HD
Everything has been fantastic, apart from the GPU. In terms of performance, it is fine. When the PC arrived it had NVidia drivers 275.33, which were perfect. However, ever since drivers 280.26 the screen would got black for maybe 5 seconds and then come back. A little bubble appears in the corner with:
Display driver stopped responding and has recovered
Display driver NVIDIA Windows Kernal Mode Driver, version xxx.xx stopped responding and has successfully recovered.
Intrestingly, this never happend whilst playing a game. Usually it occured during everyday web browsing
It continued up until 295.73, when it appeard to be cured. However since I installed 296.10, I have been getting this:
Firstly, it occured twice, on consecutive days, whilst watching fullscreen video on youtube. After that I just watched youtube in the default screen size for a few days. Then about 3 days later, It occured on regular youtube screensize. I managed to quckliy close Internet Explorer before the system locked. On doing this, the PC did exactly what it used to do (black screen for around 5 seconds, then recovery and the message). However, last night when I started FSX, it happened then, which resulted in instant system lockup. I'm a bit paranoid with regards to me having to turn of the PC by holding the button in because of the concequences it has. I've had to do it 3 times in less than a week which I know can't be good.
So the questions I really want to know the answers to are:
1. What on earth is happening!?
2. What is causing this?
3. How do I get this issue fixed (I have rolled back the drivers to 295.73 to see if that makes a difference. Also, the PC and therefore components are only 10 months old (date of purchase) so are still under warranty.
4. What sort of damage am I doing to my HDD because of having to power off by the button?
Just as a side note, I keep my PC extremely clean and free from dust where possible, so it cannot be down to neglect.
Sorry the post is so long but I thought it best to get as much detail in as possible. Any help/advice is greatly appreciated!
Thanks
This my first post on these forums. I'm hoping you guys can help me out! I know a bit about PC's but I need some help from you guys in the know with my problem. Here we go.....
So in June last year I bought my second ever PC. I had a real dog of a PC before, which I had for 7 years without a problem really, until the HDD died one day. So I decided to go all out and get a real mans PC. OCUK had been recommended to me by lots of people so I placed my order:
Intel i5 2500k Sandybridge @ 4.30 GHz
Corsair H50 CPU Cooler
Gigabyte P67A-UD3-B3
8GB RAM
1GB Asus (NVidia) GTX560Ti
Western Digital 500GB HD
Everything has been fantastic, apart from the GPU. In terms of performance, it is fine. When the PC arrived it had NVidia drivers 275.33, which were perfect. However, ever since drivers 280.26 the screen would got black for maybe 5 seconds and then come back. A little bubble appears in the corner with:
Display driver stopped responding and has recovered
Display driver NVIDIA Windows Kernal Mode Driver, version xxx.xx stopped responding and has successfully recovered.
Intrestingly, this never happend whilst playing a game. Usually it occured during everyday web browsing
It continued up until 295.73, when it appeard to be cured. However since I installed 296.10, I have been getting this:
Firstly, it occured twice, on consecutive days, whilst watching fullscreen video on youtube. After that I just watched youtube in the default screen size for a few days. Then about 3 days later, It occured on regular youtube screensize. I managed to quckliy close Internet Explorer before the system locked. On doing this, the PC did exactly what it used to do (black screen for around 5 seconds, then recovery and the message). However, last night when I started FSX, it happened then, which resulted in instant system lockup. I'm a bit paranoid with regards to me having to turn of the PC by holding the button in because of the concequences it has. I've had to do it 3 times in less than a week which I know can't be good.
So the questions I really want to know the answers to are:
1. What on earth is happening!?
2. What is causing this?
3. How do I get this issue fixed (I have rolled back the drivers to 295.73 to see if that makes a difference. Also, the PC and therefore components are only 10 months old (date of purchase) so are still under warranty.
4. What sort of damage am I doing to my HDD because of having to power off by the button?
Just as a side note, I keep my PC extremely clean and free from dust where possible, so it cannot be down to neglect.
Sorry the post is so long but I thought it best to get as much detail in as possible. Any help/advice is greatly appreciated!
Thanks
