Nvidia GTX 950 causing computer to freeze and crash.

[Daniel Thomas]

I have just bought my new graphics card yesterday, I slot it in, installed the Nvidia drivers, restarted my computer, and took it for a test spin. Only to have my computer freeze mid loading screen in Fallout 4. I hard shut down my computer, and tried again thinking it was a driver issue or something, so I checked to see if I missed any driver updates, I didn't, so I tried again. Although this time my computer froze while just navigating the UI. So something is completely off.

I thought maybe its related to the fact that the old drivers I had were AMD.

By the way PC specs are as followed:
AMD A10 7870K
Nvidia GTX 950(Obviously)
Kingston Hyper X Fury 8GB Dual Channel

I already have the AMD drivers uninstalled, and so I'm trying to narrow down the issues here. I tried again for a 3rd time, but this time I used MGSVTPP, and something happened while loading. Could it be somekind of heat issue? Because I've had something similar happen to me with the iGPU in the APU, but some AMD driver update fixed that. I will have to try out a few other to figure this out, but if any one has the answers I need I would appreciate any help.

 

[RARRAF]

So what PSU do you have make and model

 

[Daniel Thomas]

So what PSU do you have make and model

Oh yeah, I forgot that part. EVGA 500W 80+.

 

[RARRAF]

download the latest Nvidia drivers for your card put them on desktop or temp folder you can get too easy then download Display Driver Uninstaller from here http://www.majorgeeks.com/files/details/display_driver_uninstaller.html
remove everything after restarting it will probably be 640x480 not great install nvida drivers and hopefully should fix your problem

 

[Daniel Thomas]

I didn't mean to select your answer as best solution, but I will try that. I should mention that my problem does indeed seem to be a heat issue. I have the Asus Strix version of the card which is suppose to have some kind of automatic feature for the fans. When not heavy gaming the fans are off, but when playing more intensive games the fans come on. To figure that out I went into MSI afterburner, manually set fans on. I'm not sure of the best speed to put them on, so I just set them to 80%. As a matter of fact I was able to play MGSV for a while, then as soon as I died the computer just suddenly shut off. Also, I realize I needed to get a rear fan for my case, so I just have my case open for now. This seems like this is the solution to my issue.