So I've been having some weird problems lately. About two weeks ago my pc started to crash with colored squares all of the screen when I was playing Dragon Age: Inquisition. After researching the problem I reconnected the power connectors to my GPU and the problem was fixed. Now, two weeks later, a similar problem is starting to appear.
Every time I stared up my (modded) Skyrim, it freezes after about 3 minutes playing. It freezes to a random solid color (pink and grey mostly) and the sound cuts out, continues or gets stuck. Sometimes the screen temporarily cuts to black for a few seconds and then returns to normal (but it still freezes to a random color later).
I also tested a few other games: Assassin's Creed Unity crashed immediately (almost always to light grey) and both Minecraft and Lego Harry Potter could run for hours without problems.
I also one time received a message that the GPU had stopped working and had recovered.
I tested my memory, windows files and used my virus scanner to scan for a virus. No problems were found.
I guessing it's either a PSU problem (Corsair CX 600, about 2 years old) or a GPU problem (GTX 770, about 8 months old), but I'm not sure.
Would appreciate any help you could offer.
PS: I followed Vic 40's advise (even though I had already tried DDU without success). I used DDU to remove the driver and rolled back to an older driver that came on a DVD with the GPU (I think its the nVidia driver version 320.08). I didn't have any trouble for a few days and thought that it might have been a problem with the latest driver. Yesterday, the freezing came back however and it has been happening everything I play Skyrim since.
I also tried removing my GTX 770 and replacing it with my old GTX 570. I shortly tested it and it seemed to work fine. The GTX 570 does require a less powerful PSU, so it could still be the PSU. I don't really know how to find out of sure however.
Every time I stared up my (modded) Skyrim, it freezes after about 3 minutes playing. It freezes to a random solid color (pink and grey mostly) and the sound cuts out, continues or gets stuck. Sometimes the screen temporarily cuts to black for a few seconds and then returns to normal (but it still freezes to a random color later).
I also tested a few other games: Assassin's Creed Unity crashed immediately (almost always to light grey) and both Minecraft and Lego Harry Potter could run for hours without problems.
I also one time received a message that the GPU had stopped working and had recovered.
I tested my memory, windows files and used my virus scanner to scan for a virus. No problems were found.
I guessing it's either a PSU problem (Corsair CX 600, about 2 years old) or a GPU problem (GTX 770, about 8 months old), but I'm not sure.
Would appreciate any help you could offer.
PS: I followed Vic 40's advise (even though I had already tried DDU without success). I used DDU to remove the driver and rolled back to an older driver that came on a DVD with the GPU (I think its the nVidia driver version 320.08). I didn't have any trouble for a few days and thought that it might have been a problem with the latest driver. Yesterday, the freezing came back however and it has been happening everything I play Skyrim since.
I also tried removing my GTX 770 and replacing it with my old GTX 570. I shortly tested it and it seemed to work fine. The GTX 570 does require a less powerful PSU, so it could still be the PSU. I don't really know how to find out of sure however.
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