Machine freezing

Soldato
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I posted this on the graphics forum, but I think I have bigger problems.

I installed a new graphics card over Christmas, a 970. I've been happy with it, not tried it with many games, mainly Witcher 3, Battlefront and GTA V, which I've had no problems with.
However I've been getting crashes during Ark, game just freezes, though any music I have playing continues in the background, I can't alt tab, or CTRL-ALT-DEL, I have to restart my machine.

This all pretty much started yesterday, I've now had failed startups, I was on the logon screen, could move the mouse but not click on the password box. I've also had a similar problem on the desktop, could move my mouse, music was still playing but I couldn't click on anything. This also happened which I tried to load up the Nvidia control panel, got the little roatating circle like it was trying to do something but nothing happened.

Funny enough, I still havn't had any trouble playing games, other then Ark.

Here are my specs.
  • Intel Core i7 930 2.80GHz (Bloomfield) clocked at 4Ghz
  • Asus P6X58D-E Intel X58
  • EVGA GeForce GTX 970 SC ACX 2.0 4096MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card
  • Corsair XMS3 12GB (6x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz
  • Samsung 1.0TB 850 EVO SSD 2.5" SATA 6Gbps 32 Layer 3D V-NAND Solid State Drive
  • Antec 902 Nine Hundred Two (V3) Ultimate Gaming Case
  • Noctua NH-D14 Dual Radiator CPU Cooler
  • XFX XTR 750W '80 Plus Gold' Fully Modular Power Supply

I'm currently running Windows 10, though my i7 is overclocked, I've not touched the speeds on the GFX card.
 
Was willing to put it down to Ark, but I had another crash this morning. Turned on computer, got into Windows, clicked on Firefox and then nothing happened. Could move the mouse around the desktop, but couldn't do anything, not even ctrl-alt-del.
 
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