Drivers keep crashing

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Hades2008

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Over the past week or so, my video card drivers have been crashing. I would be playing a game, and after an hour or so all of a sudden my frame rate would drop right below 10, and go right back up and screen would go back for about 10 secs. Happens with all my games. I figured it was unstable.

So I ran FurMark for about 2 hours or so. No artifacts, no crashing. Nothing. Temps went high as 73 degrees. Tried a game. Same thing. Lowed the setting in all games. Same thing.

Took my power supply to a qualified electrician and got him to test it. Nothing wrong with it.

I even tried the card in a different computer, and it worked fine. Ran the same games without problems.

My specs are:
Core i5 750 @ 3.8GHz
G.Skill Ripjaws 2x2GB @ 1900MHz
EVGA GTX 570HD
Seasonic M12D 850 Watts
Win 7 64-Bit

Everything is up too date. I should also mention, I have tried the following drivers: 266.58, 270.61, 275.33, and 280.19.

Im just all outta ideas here. Cause I tried the card in a different computer, and worked fine. Tested the power supply and it was fine. And I don't think heat is an issue, as it never went over 73 degrees. And my CPU rarely ever goes over 70 degrees. And video card has a small overclock, upped the core from 732 to 750 and memory from 1900 to 1950. And I even stock settings, does the same thing still.
 
I knew I forgot to mention something. Yeah, I used IntelBurnTest, OCCT and Prime95 and all ran without problem. I also ram Memtest over night and everything passed.
 
...looking at it, i still really dont trust clocked ram, try bringing that ram speed back a little and feel it out for a few days, memory issues can be a hell of a problem, espically when your running outside of JDEC specs. after fighting with crucial ballistix sets for 3 years with memory failure after memory failure in various machines after suggesting it to clients and myself, i said forget it and stuck with memory that was in spec, and have not had a single BSOD, hangup or issue since. try dropping the memory down to 1333 @ CL9 timings, you may not want to do it, but you might have to live with it at a slow(er) speed
 
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Drop your CPU/Memory back to default and see if the problem goes away. If so, either your CPU or memory needs to be backed off some or needs more voltage.
 
Ive been running my CPU and RAM at that speed since Sept 2010 without any problems at all. When I had my GTX 460, never had a problem with it. I just got my GTX 570HD back in July. I did a format cause it needed one. So I know there were no left over drivers from when I had my GTX 460.

I'll try you guys suggestions tho. As for my memory it's stock rating is 1600MHz @ 1.5v. I have it at 1.65v I think.
 
Doesn't really matter how long, eventually ran out of spec components can fail in one way or another and can cause adverse performance or problems, memory especially is prone to this.
 
Put everything to stock speeds. Did then same thing, along with a BSOD. Thats the 1st time it did that. But this time, when it happened, my hard drive let out a loud high pitch sound.
 
I fixed it or I hope so. The PCIe slot might be damaged. I downloaded GPU-Z and for the Bus Interface said it was running PCI-E x1 0.5 @ x1 0.5. This is the top slot. Put my card in a different slot and when I checked it again it said PCI-E x16 2.0 @ x8 2.0. This is the middle PCIe slot.

And so far, I haven't had any trouble. Been gaming about an hour after I did my last post til now and it ran like it should be.
 
You've been running CPU benchmarks to test a graphics card...

Try MSI Kombustor (comes with MSI Afterburner)

If you want to check what speed a PCI-E slot is, take out the card, shine a torch on the slot and see how far the gold pins go. Halfway is an X8 slot, a quarter is an X4 slot. Pins to the end of the slot is an X16 slot. X1 slots shouldn't physically fit a graphics card.
 
If you read my 1st post, I used FurMark to test my video card.

I know how PCI-e slots work. Like I said GPU-Z was reading that PCI-e x16 slot as a x1 slot. Not a x16 like it should have. Unless it's not accurate. I don't know. It working the way it should and thats all I care about.
 
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