Question PC Randomly Crashes After Driver Update

[kokobutta]

Hello,
I recently updated my GPU drivers and ever since then my system has been crashing. It started whenever it was even exposed to the slightest load (opening cs2) but after I tried many things such as wiping the drivers and reinstalling the old ones. I finally decided to change the windows minimum power state setting from 100% to 5% and that seemed to help so I went to bed thinking it was fixed. I then come back from work and decide to test it, I go into cs2 it opens fine I play a few rounds of bots and leave and change the map which then causes it to crash. After looking through the event viewer and noticing no errors immediately before the crash I am stumped. I think the issue is my PSU being underpowered. Any help would be much appreciated.

CPU: Ryzen 5 5600x
GPU: RTX 4070 ti Super
RAM: Corsair Vengeance LPX 3600
PSU: Corsair SF750 platinum
MOBO: ROG B550i

Everything but the ram and gpu is around 5 years old from when I most recently refreshed my system

 

[Lutfij]

Welcome to the forums, newcomer!

I recently updated my GPU drivers and ever since then my system has been crashing.
Use DDU to remove all GPU drivers(intel, AMD and Nvidia) in Safe Mode, then manually install driver version 566.36 sourced from Nvidia's support site, in an elevated command, i.e, Right click installer>Run as Administrator.

I think the issue is my PSU being underpowered.
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PSU: Corsair SF750 platinum
How old is the PSU? 5 years? What did it power prior to the RTX 4070 Ti Super?

MOBO: ROG B550i
What BIOS version are you on for your motherboard?

You forgot to mention the make and model of your case. Would be a good idea to pass on temps for your components as well(using HWInfo).

 

[kokobutta]

I'll try rolling back the nvidia drivers again

Yeah the psu is 5 years old and i had a 1060 and a 4060 before. I rmad the 4060 for a similar issue and got this current 4070ti super so i'm starting to think it was never the gpus fault even though my issues were fixed with the 4070.

Motherboard is on bios 3607 which is around a year old. So its a little outdated

case is cooler master nr200p v2 (no glass panel)

 

[Teknoman2]

Nvidia had several problems with their drivers this year. If it worked before the driver update, roll back to the previous version that worked. If the problem persists then you should start looking at a hardware failure. If you determine its the PSU, get something fairly higher Wattage than you need, less work for it means longer life and it will be able to support future upgrades.