Question 7800xt has started crashing

[konala1]

I bought the 7800xt on release day and it's been working great. Today I tried to run COD and in the middle of the game I got a buffering/loading circle on a black screen and the display turned of while the PC was still running. I turned it back on and the display drivers weren't recognised. I uninstalled/reinstalled and tried to load COD again. I joined a friends party and the same thing happened after crashing twice. I was playing another game (Total War) moments before and everything was fine, it's also been fine with everything I've run up to this moment. I unistalled/reinstalled again and here I am. What's going on?

 

[Order 66]

how did you uninstall the drivers? If you didn't use DDU you need to.

 

[konala1]

how did you uninstall the drivers? If you didn't use DDU you need to.

I just unistalled through device manager. Is DDU an independent piece of software?

 

[Order 66]

you have to use DDU because uninstalling through other ways doesn't remove potentially problematic registry entries. You can find it here https://www.guru3d.com/download/display-driver-uninstaller-download/
Make sure to follow ALL directions

 

[konala1]

you have to use DDU because uninstalling through other ways doesn't remove potentially problematic registry entries. You can find it here https://www.guru3d.com/download/display-driver-uninstaller-download/
Make sure to follow ALL directions

I see, appreciate it.

 

[konala1]

you have to use DDU because uninstalling through other ways doesn't remove potentially problematic registry entries. You can find it here https://www.guru3d.com/download/display-driver-uninstaller-download/
Make sure to follow ALL directions

I couldn't run in safe mode to start DDU, so I restored system to yesterday. There was an error detected with Windows. Should I still DDU the drivers or will there be no need now?

 

[Order 66]

Yes you should still run DDU If you notice issues again.

 

[konala1]

Yes you should still run DDU If you notice issues again.

Thanks for the help.

 

[konala1]

Yes you should still run DDU If you notice issues again.

Hi again,
It's happened a couple of times again. I ran DDU, even reinstalled windows again. Could this be a GPU failure?