driver stopped responding and recovered

[taylordrift1988]

Hey guys just wondering if someone can help, firstly i will just give you spec of my computer,
ASUS P5G41T-M LX mobo
INTEL CORE 2 DUO 7500 2.93GHZ 2.93GHZ
6GB DDR3 RAM INTEGRAL
1TB HARD DRIVE
500GB HARD DRIVE
WINDOWS 7 ULTIMATE 64BIT
ASUS NVIDIA GEFORCE GT 630 2GB GRAPHICS CARD (NEW)

i keep getting this problem no matter what i am doing, google, watching videos, anything, is "driver stopped responding and recovered" . now this use to do with my old graphics card aswell which was a amd 5450 1gb graphics card. so i made sure everything was up to date, including bios, re-installed windows. And even though i replaced graphics card like 2 days ago with the nvidia card the problem still persists, the driver for that aswell is up to date, may i just add when using onboard graphics the problem does not arise and is totally stable, would it be a bad slot on the motherboard? as i only have one slot so i could not try the graphics card in another.
If anyone can help would much appreciate it. Thank you.

 

[jinayhvora]

it could be a PSU problem, what's ur PSU

 

[taylordrift1988]

its a brand new 500w psu which came with case.

 

[jinayhvora]

500W should theoretically be enough for ur system, but such bundled PSUs are generally crap, can u open the case and find out what it say's on the PSUs label for current at +12V?

 

[taylordrift1988]

psu AC INPUT, CURRENT, 4~10A 2~5A, does that answer your question buddy? thanks

 

[jinayhvora]

no, u checked the AC input, what's important is the DC output

 

[taylordrift1988]

dc output, it gives me from 180w to 500w so i quess i will show you the 500w one, and it says
yellow - +12v 20A
Blue -12v 0.8A
Purple +5v SB 2A
This is all under CURRENT.
thanks

 

[jinayhvora]

20A....so u have the bare minimum to run the GT630, so i guess the power isn't a problem provided its actually giving that output
reinstall drivers, reseat card, try another card if u can borrow one or something

 

[taylordrift1988]

I have tried all of the above, as i say, i did have a amd radeon 5450 1gb and it done the same as what is happening now, all drivers including bios are all up to date. also put new graphics card in a couple of days ago and problem still persisted. and with new graphics card i also made sure the driver was up to date aswell. the only thing that could be the cause would be motherboard as everything really is ruled out, correct me if am wrong. i did however try the on-board graphics by using the VGA port and i did not have a problem what so ever with it. so does this mean that the PCIe x16 slot is faulty? this is a link to the specification for motherboard if that's any help? http://www.asus.com/Motherboards/P5G41TM_LX/#overview

 

[taylordrift1988]

Also forgot to mention, i have a sound blaster audigy 5.1 sound card, and a dvd rw drive 2 x hard drives, with the above specs. would there still be enough power from psu for all that and graphics card? thanks

 

[jinayhvora]

the sound card could be a problem, as i mentioned u have just the bare minimum to run the GT630