GPU causing 7 to freeze

dave1701

dave1701

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My OS has been randomly freezing and failing to boot for months now, not even in safe mode. I know the problem is the driver for the GPU. I pull the card out and it will boot again. I know it is not the card itself, because it does this randomly and only while using windows. My first thought would be Nvidia mobo not working with the ATI 5570, but it was working fine for a few months. I take the GPU out, and the computer will boot. Then without doing anything, I can put the GPU in and it will boot and works like normal again until about a week. This is very odd. I really need help. My computer is the one in my sig.
 
Replace the graphics card. Cards and boards from different vendors do not cause issues with each other (though new graphics cards in the 6000 series have issues with socket 755 P35/P45 motherboards)
 
If it was working fine for few months and now all of a sudden it does not work well then something probably got corrupted with your drivers or very possibly something is wrong with your hardware.

To be sure that it is not a hardware issue,boot fresh installed Windows OS or some other fresh installed operating system and use it for a week or two.If it's working fine during that time then it is not your hardware.It is with your Windows OS itself.In that case try to completely uninstall the drivers and then install them again.If that does not help,try to repair or reinstall OS and see if that will help.

If you still get problems even with the fresh installed OS then something is wrong with your GPU or POWER SUPPLY/UNIT hardware like johnb35 said.
Does your GPU has fan on it?If yes,does it spin properly?
You may also consider that the thermal paste got dry,but that is so damn rarely.
By the way if you overclocked anything in BIOS,try putting everything back to their default (optimized) values.


Anyway try what I suggested above and report back with the results.




Cheers!
 
Temps age good. GPU clock is 145mhz at idle. Fan works. I don't overclock. I was trying to get around a reinstall, but I guess I'll have to do it. I have alot of programs and it will be tedious getting it back.
 
dave1701 said:
Temps age good. GPU clock is 145mhz at idle. Fan works. I don't overclock. I was trying to get around a reinstall, but I guess I'll have to do it. I have alot of programs and it will be tedious getting it back.
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Well you don't have to touch your OS.Just install it on another partition or another HDD.
Or simply clone this what you have now and then make a fresh Windows OS installation and use it for a week or 2 and see how the system works.
Later you can always return the clone back to your HDD and on that way you won't lose a single byte.In short you won't need to reinstall anything.
 
As long as you have your receipt and its still under warranty, should be able to rma it for a new one.
 
This is weird. After 2 months of the computer working great, the same thing started up again. It is just freezing, however it does usually boot up after. It is not the GPU or the PSU and the HDD tested good. This must be a software issue. The only think I might think of is that now, just as before, I just said to install the latest windows updates.
 
dave1701 said:
This is weird. After 2 months of the computer working great, the same thing started up again. It is just freezing, however it does usually boot up after. It is not the GPU or the PSU and the HDD tested good. This must be a software issue. The only think I might think of is that now, just as before, I just said to install the latest windows updates.
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LoL believe me your computer does not freeze because you did not install ALL the updates lol.The cause is something else what you are doing wrong.Just keep in mind that if you install ALL Windows updates that you can find then no wonder why your computer freezes lol.A specific update(s) is/are supposed to be installed ONLY if a specific problem(s) need(s) to be fixed.Take me for example.My system is from 1995. (super old as you can see) and last time I installed XP OS on it was in 2004. and the ONLY updates that are on my system are SP1,SP2 and SP3 and I never ever installed any other updates,never ever installed OS on it since 2004. and the system still works great without a single problem plus I have tons of software on startup.
While in your case you have a lot newer and stronger system with newer OS and you say it starts to freeze after 2 months.So obviously it is not a hardware issue.It is a software issue caused by you and you are probably doing something wrong,but you don't know what.

Because if you reinstall Windows now AGAIN,sooner or later you will do a same mistake again and your system will start freezing again and then you will reinstall Windows OS again and again and again lol.Hell I haven't reinstall my XP OS for 7 years and still works perfectly on this super old system.2 moths (in your case) and 7 years (in my case) is a big difference.I would rather shoot myself than reinstall everything every 2 months lol.

So...what were that last things you were doing on your system for like 5 days before your system started freezing?
 
I wasn't saying not having updates was causing it. I was entertaining the possibility of updates causing it. I now don't think that's the case.
 
Have you tested the ram btw, it seems to be only thing you didnt mention, I just replaced my ram which used to be this:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820178238

Which I have long thought to be my issue even though it passed memtest (this can happen btw) fine I still got bsods randomly, sometimes would be fine for months then it would start, judging from the BSODs it was going to be a ram issue, since the sticks have been pulled I havent had a single issue, so far.

If your ram is playing up it could be why ur comp is not starting, then starts.
 
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