There's an issue I have that's been going on for a while. Within multiple different games and programs, even ones that are not very graphics intensive (LoL, TF2, Minecraft) I'll get a "Display driver stopped responding and has recovered" error, or sometimes just a "display driver has failed" with the result of either a crashing game, or sometimes just temporarily freezing game. I've gone through all the normal troubleshooting steps, new driver, clean old driver, and such. The fact that its been going on for over a year and some change makes me pretty sure its not a driver issue, as there's been multiple new drivers in that time. I've also went from Vista which people were blaming for issues like this, to 7 and didn't get any change.
I'm actually pretty sure its a hardware issue, cause when I had to have my computer shipped and it wasn't quite treated as it should have been, causing the graphics card to come loose inside the case. When I got it I checked around for any visible damage, hooked it back up, and everything worked (sadly really, because since there was no visible issue I couldn't claim the shipping insurance). Anyway, a while later I realized my CMOS batter connection was damaged (tried a new battery) so that every time I completely turn the power off to my computer (unplug and all) my bios looses any custom settings. I figured this was caused by the shipping incident, and now I'm pretty sure the graphics problem is caused by it too. The times I've sent in support tickets to different people they said from the data they got that it appeared my graphics card was overheating. I've monitored the temp and turned up fan speeds, its definitely not, so I'm guessing it just thinks it is.
Sorry for drawing this out, my real question here is do you think this problem is more likely caused by damaged to the graphics card or damaged to the MB? I can't replace both right now (and the CMOS issue I can deal with) so I'd like to start with the most likely culprit. If you think its something else entirely go ahead and say it, but if you think its software please give me a reason and something I might not have tried to fix it.
Graphics card is a GTX285 SC, MB is a Asus P6T Deluxe V2.
I'm actually pretty sure its a hardware issue, cause when I had to have my computer shipped and it wasn't quite treated as it should have been, causing the graphics card to come loose inside the case. When I got it I checked around for any visible damage, hooked it back up, and everything worked (sadly really, because since there was no visible issue I couldn't claim the shipping insurance). Anyway, a while later I realized my CMOS batter connection was damaged (tried a new battery) so that every time I completely turn the power off to my computer (unplug and all) my bios looses any custom settings. I figured this was caused by the shipping incident, and now I'm pretty sure the graphics problem is caused by it too. The times I've sent in support tickets to different people they said from the data they got that it appeared my graphics card was overheating. I've monitored the temp and turned up fan speeds, its definitely not, so I'm guessing it just thinks it is.
Sorry for drawing this out, my real question here is do you think this problem is more likely caused by damaged to the graphics card or damaged to the MB? I can't replace both right now (and the CMOS issue I can deal with) so I'd like to start with the most likely culprit. If you think its something else entirely go ahead and say it, but if you think its software please give me a reason and something I might not have tried to fix it.
Graphics card is a GTX285 SC, MB is a Asus P6T Deluxe V2.