GPU Freezing and Crashing PC?

[crashbang]

Hey, so I'm having an issue with my PC where it completely freezes up and then shuts down a few seconds after booting it up. It eventually doesn't boot into windows and gets stuck on the loading screen. At first I thought it was an issue with windows so i reinstalled it... twice. I also replaced the PSU. Then the third time it wouldn't boot into windows I booted into safe mode and it worked perfectly. So I disabled my graphics card and booted regularly and it works. I tried reinstalling drivers, but it still freezes the PC every time I enable GPU.

 

What is causing my graphics card to do this? Is there anything I can do?

 

CURRENT PC SPECS:

GPU: GTX 770 4GB
PSU: Gigabyte GreenMax Plus 550w (was a Gigabyte Odin GT 550w)
CPU: Intel Core i7 930 2.8 GHz
MOBO: Gigabyte X58A-UD3R
RAM: 6x 2GB Kingston

 

It is an older build, I just need to keep it running for a few more months till I can afford a new one.

 

Thanks for the help!

[VenomizerX]

Have you tried DDU to remove the card's drivers before reinstalling? Is the card overclocked or has it been ever overclocked? Either it's a driver/software issue or it could might as well be the card itself although you can never be so sure so my suggestion is to test it first and isolate the the cause.

[crashbang]

23 minutes ago, VenomizerX said:

Have you tried DDU to remove the card's drivers before reinstalling? Is the card overclocked or has it been ever overclocked? Either it's a driver/software issue or it could might as well be the card itself although you can never be so sure so my suggestion is to test it first and isolate the the cause.

Thanks man. I just ran DDU and reinstalled the drivers... It hasn't frozen yet (fingers crossed).

It took some time before it started freezing and shutting down after my last windows reinstall. But hopefully this is it.

 

This PC and GPU used to be owned by someone else. A few years ago he sold the PC to another friend of ours and I took the GPU. Then when my PC died a few weeks back I borrowed his old PC and the put the GPU back in. They were reunited. Anyway, long story short, he may have overclocked it, I'm not sure. I never did though.

 

Thanks for the help. Hopefully this is it.

[jaslion]

47 minutes ago, crashbang said:

Hey, so I'm having an issue with my PC where it completely freezes up and then shuts down a few seconds after booting it up. It eventually doesn't boot into windows and gets stuck on the loading screen. At first I thought it was an issue with windows so i reinstalled it... twice. I also replaced the PSU. Then the third time it wouldn't boot into windows I booted into safe mode and it worked perfectly. So I disabled my graphics card and booted regularly and it works. I tried reinstalling drivers, but it still freezes the PC every time I enable GPU.

 

What is causing my graphics card to do this? Is there anything I can do?

 

CURRENT PC SPECS:

GPU: GTX 770 4GB
PSU: Gigabyte GreenMax Plus 550w (was a Gigabyte Odin GT 550w)
CPU: Intel Core i7 930 2.8 GHz
MOBO: Gigabyte X58A-UD3R
RAM: 6x 2GB Kingston

 

It is an older build, I just need to keep it running for a few more months till I can afford a new one.

 

Thanks for the help!

Considering the age of both psu's your currently have and the fact that that psu is kinda meh at best I would recommend you use a decent new one. Since you mentioned it worked fine before I would be surprised if it's now suddenly dead.

[VenomizerX]

4 minutes ago, crashbang said:

Thanks man. I just ran DDU and reinstalled the drivers... It hasn't frozen yet (fingers crossed).

It took some time before it started freezing and shutting down after my last windows reinstall. But hopefully this is it.

 

This PC and GPU used to be owned by someone else. A few years ago he sold the PC to another friend of ours and I took the GPU. Then when my PC died a few weeks back I borrowed his old PC and the put the GPU back in. They were reunited. Anyway, long story short, he may have overclocked it, I'm not sure. I never did though.

 

Thanks for the help. Hopefully this is it.

Just make sure that it's stable enough and you should be good to go. Fixed an issue with my RTX 2060 drivers that would just freak out sometimes and other times it would automatically uninstall itself after a reboot along with Nvidia Software. Only thing that helped was DDU so kudos to the man behind that software...

[crashbang]

Okay, bad news. It just froze and shut down again.

 

2 hours ago, jaslion said:

Considering the age of both psu's your currently have and the fact that that psu is kinda meh at best I would recommend you use a decent new one. Since you mentioned it worked fine before I would be surprised if it's now suddenly dead.

Hmmmm... Do you think it it would freeze for a few seconds before shutting down if it was my PSU? Wouldn't it just power off? I don't know too much about this though.

I do have a brand new Corsair VS650 lying around. I know it's not the best PSU either, but I have it and I could give it a try.

 

2 hours ago, VenomizerX said:

Just make sure that it's stable enough and you should be good to go. Fixed an issue with my RTX 2060 drivers that would just freak out sometimes and other times it would automatically uninstall itself after a reboot along with Nvidia Software. Only thing that helped was DDU so kudos to the man behind that software...

It does seem like it could be a driver issue, because it lasted longer this time. I thought maybe windows might be updating the driver automatically, but when I try view driver details Device Manager stops responding. I can view the driver details of everything except my GPU.

 

If it is a driver issue what do I do about bad drivers? I've tried installing older versions and it doesn't work either. 

[VenomizerX]

10 hours ago, crashbang said:

Okay, bad news. It just froze and shut down again.

 

Hmmmm... Do you think it it would freeze for a few seconds before shutting down if it was my PSU? Wouldn't it just power off? I don't know too much about this though.

I do have a brand new Corsair VS650 lying around. I know it's not the best PSU either, but I have it and I could give it a try.

 

It does seem like it could be a driver issue, because it lasted longer this time. I thought maybe windows might be updating the driver automatically, but when I try view driver details Device Manager stops responding. I can view the driver details of everything except my GPU.

 

If it is a driver issue what do I do about bad drivers? I've tried installing older versions and it doesn't work either. 

If you installed the drivers manually after uninstalling using DDU it's good measure to first disable your network or internet connection when installing the driver because some people also had this issue when Windows would automatically install drivers that are outdated before you can even install the latest version manually. Last resort is probably going to be a clean windows install. If still it seems to be finicky then maybe check your cabling and connections and the hardware itself. But for problems like this, I usually try diagnosing and fixing it on the software side first before blaming it on the hardware immediately. Just give it a shot and who knows...