Drivers and PC Crashing

[BryceBT]

This started a long time ago with my display drivers crashing and then recovering a few seconds later; depending on the game I was playing at the time it would either stop responding and crash, or recover within a couple of seconds.

Now, when playing The Division, instead of going to a black screen for a couple of seconds and recovering, my entire PC locks up and I have to hard reset (can't ctrl+alt+del or alt+f4).

I've tried reverting to an older driver like people recommended about a year and a half ago when this first started, among other solutions, but none of them have fixed this issue.

My main question is, is my GPU the only cause of this issue? I was considering getting a new card with 4GB (I play at 1440p) but wasn't sure if it would make more sense to just wait until I can get a new rig altogether.

My specs
2GB GTX 770 (MSI Lightning version)
i5 4670k (factory clocked @3.4 GHz)
ASRock Z87 killer mobo
8GB ram
windows 7

 

[Alan Caldwell]

Try this,
First of all you need to TOTALLY remove all the old drivers. Use this link.
http://www.wagnardmobile.com/DDU/
Note:
Select the respective company(i.e Nvidia or ATI) drivers to be uninstalled.
Use clean and restart option.
And then install the new drivers after rebooting.

Which PSU do you have?

 

[BryceBT]

Try this,
First of all you need to TOTALLY remove all the old drivers. Use this link.
http://www.wagnardmobile.com/DDU/
Note:
Select the respective company(i.e Nvidia or ATI) drivers to be uninstalled.
Use clean and restart option.
And then install the new drivers after rebooting.

Which PSU do you have?

an EVGA 'NEX' 650 gold

 

[Alan Caldwell]

Did that work for you?

 

[BryceBT]

Did that work for you?

I haven't done it quite yet as I'm studying for a midterm and wasn't sure If I would need to download the drivers onto a flash drive or not before I uninstall/reboot. Will they just automatically install upon reboot? Never had to completely remove them before.

 

[Alan Caldwell]

If you completely remove them, the system will boot up with the integrated GPU, then you need to install the drivers. Just download the drivers to your PC, PC will restart after those steps, install when booted up.

 

[BryceBT]

Alright I ran the DDU and reinstalled the newest drivers, It will probably take a while to test if it worked or not because it wasn't a problem that would happen immediately, and sometimes would go dormant for days or even weeks. For now I'll mark it as the solution because I can't imagine it not being fixed, but if it comes back up I'll make a new/thread post here.

 

[Alan Caldwell]

Alright I ran the DDU and reinstalled the newest drivers, It will probably take a while to test if it worked or not because it wasn't a problem that would happen immediately, and sometimes would go dormant for days or even weeks. For now I'll mark it as the solution because I can't imagine it not being fixed, but if it comes back up I'll make a new/thread post here.

Let's hope it fixes the problem! 😀