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New Graphics card, getting problems

Another thing, about updating the BIOS, on the gigabyte BIOS download page it has rev 1.0, rev 1.6 and rev 1.7. Is rev 1.7 the newest versions of software, or are they different versions of the motherboard hardware, I'm guessing it's hardware looking at it. Basically my question is: how do I tell which rev page to download from. On cpu-z it has two rev values, one by chipset/northbridge which says 13 and one by southbridge which says 00. Those numbers are completely different from the values on the website...

http://www.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=3265#bios

That's the gigabyte bios download page. For rev 1 the newest version is the Beta F12Q, for the rev 1.7 the newest version is FK1, and rev 1.6 has a different one aswell.
 
By the way:

My system is crashing randomly at the moment. Sometimes (like now) it can be on for over an hour and not crash. Sometimes it'll crash within minutes of logging on.

If the system crashes whilst I'm updating the BIOS I could get really ****ed, however my system does not crash when in safe mode.

Is it okay to update the BIOS in safemode rather than in windows normal?
 
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I took the overclock off, I updated the bios and the chipset. I log on to windows and about 5 mins in I get a nice big white screen that makes me force restart. I just don't get it.... :(
 
try the old card now

if it's stable with the old card then your new card needs to be RMA'd, if it's still unstable then I was probably right about the problem being caused by something other than the card.
 
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