Question Graphics card drivers ramdomly reverting to generic

[cewhidx]

Ive been experiencing a strange phenomenon as of the last month or so. My PC stays on almost always. I only shut it down when necessary. Lately, when I get up in the morning, the graphics drivers have changed to generic windows drivers and GPU Temp no longer recognizes the card, games no longer work, Nvidia systray icon is no longer present, nor is the Nvidia Control Panel available in the sub-menu when I right click on the desktop. Restarting the PC fixes it, however it seems to just happen randomly either at night, or when Im at work. I have the latest drivers installed, and have tried doing a clean install with CCleaner but it's still doing the same thing. It might happen after a few hours, or it might be days. It seems random. My question is: has anyone else experienced this? And if so, is it fixable? It's not a show stopper as a simple reboot corrects it, but Im worried that the symptoms might mean that the card could be crapping out on me. My system specs are:
AMD Ryzen 5 3600
32 Gb Corsair Vengeance 3200 DDR4
EVGA RTX 2080 XC Gaming
Corsair 850 watt PSU
Windows 11 (latest build)
Latest Graphics drivers according to GeForce Experience
Power options to not turn anything off ever

Any insight would be greatly appreciated

Thanks

 

[Mcfckyle91]

Ive been experiencing a strange phenomenon as of the last month or so. My PC stays on almost always. I only shut it down when necessary. Lately, when I get up in the morning, the graphics drivers have changed to generic windows drivers and GPU Temp no longer recognizes the card, games no longer work, Nvidia systray icon is no longer present, nor is the Nvidia Control Panel available in the sub-menu when I right click on the desktop. Restarting the PC fixes it, however it seems to just happen randomly either at night, or when Im at work. I have the latest drivers installed, and have tried doing a clean install with CCleaner but it's still doing the same thing. It might happen after a few hours, or it might be days. It seems random. My question is: has anyone else experienced this? And if so, is it fixable? It's not a show stopper as a simple reboot corrects it, but Im worried that the symptoms might mean that the card could be crapping out on me. My system specs are:
AMD Ryzen 5 3600
32 Gb Corsair Vengeance 3200 DDR4
EVGA RTX 2080 XC Gaming
Corsair 850 watt PSU
Windows 11 (latest build)
Latest Graphics drivers according to GeForce Experience
Power options to not turn anything off ever

Any insight would be greatly appreciated

Thanks

Maybe windows updates is activating at your specified time and for some reason overwriting your GPU drivers? Worth a look into your history.