- Nov 30, 2015
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Recently, my graphics card has been showing signs of failure. The screen covers in artifacts, my PC freezes up, then the message box telling me that my display driver has crashed and recovered pops up (occasionally this box does not pop up and the monitor will display several gray horizontal bars going down the screen while the last sound made through my computer such as a note in a song or a friend's voice through Skype plays continuously through the speakers and I have to force shut down the PC). However, I've confirmed that all of my GPU drivers are up to date, the GPU fans are quiet, I never notice stutter while playing games, and all the textures look fine so, I want to be completely sure that my GPU is the problem. To ensure this I would uninstall every AMD driver completely, test out the GPU on windows default display drivers, then reinstall the most updated versions, however, my CPU is an AMD fx 4300 and I want to know if preforming a complete uninstall of AMD drivers would damage the CPU since any drivers associated with it would also be from AMD. Also, is there anything else that I may do to troubleshoot the constantly crashing display driver? I have already attempted lowering the GPU and CPU clocking speeds as well.
I'm use to fixing any problems with my PC on my own, but anything involving the GPU is above my expertise.
The graphics card is a Radeon R9 280x btw
side-note: I'm not sure if this is contributing to the problem, but I recently recovered my computer after the software file in my system32 config folder had been corrupted by using a bootable USB, accessing the command prompt, then renaming the damaged file and copying the backup software file from the reg backup folder to the config folder. And a few years ago I fixed constant blue screens by replacing a bad stick of ram (I now have 10gb and a friend told me that it not being a multiple of 4 may be my problem but I don't see why that would be the case).
I'm use to fixing any problems with my PC on my own, but anything involving the GPU is above my expertise.
The graphics card is a Radeon R9 280x btw
side-note: I'm not sure if this is contributing to the problem, but I recently recovered my computer after the software file in my system32 config folder had been corrupted by using a bootable USB, accessing the command prompt, then renaming the damaged file and copying the backup software file from the reg backup folder to the config folder. And a few years ago I fixed constant blue screens by replacing a bad stick of ram (I now have 10gb and a friend told me that it not being a multiple of 4 may be my problem but I don't see why that would be the case).
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