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I have a 6 years old prebuilt pc and in time I upgraded the ram from 8 to 16GB, the video card from a 2GB R9 to a 6GB GTX1060 and that old hdd with a samsung 860 evo 1TB. The only things I left are the PSU (550W), CPU (i74770k) and the Motherboard (I don't even know what mobo is this there's nothing written on it, I just know it's ASUS, like the whole PC). The PC was still running really good until a couple of weeks ago. It started to crash when I played heavier games like Shadow of the Tomb Raider or Wolfenstein Youngblood, and Also Apex Legends, just like that, randomly, without any errors. This was still acceptable since it was happening rarely and only on SP games (except Apex but I don't play that game so often) and my main game (Rainbow Six Siege) was working well as always. Now it crashes literally on EVERYTHING, even in stuff I need for work, like Photoshop and Illustrator. I get 3 to 6 crashes in every game session in any game I have, either SP and MP which is kind of frustrating (Apex is now giving me an error that says I PHYSICALLY removed my GPU). I did a couple of tests and checked the temps while games and programs are running, and everything is fine..I don't know what to do. I will buy a new system soon but I need to keep up with this one for at least a couple of months because I need more money. How can I solve this? Even if it's just a fix for the programs I need for work.

 

Things I already tried to do:

 

- Clean OS Reinstall

- Repairing programs

- Cleaning the system from dust

- Lowering GPU clock speed

- Using Linux installed in my old HDD, but even chrome is crashing there

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Just now, xhackforeverxdx said:

Could u remove the gpu and try running stuff on the onboard gpu to be sure its ur gpu ? Looks like your gtx1060 is just about to die 

lol It's literally 1 year old today. I will try tomorrow and let you know (It's 4am here)

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Or an NVidia driver issue... the last year their drivers were more that craptastic... downgrade to an older driver for example 411.63 (a stable one)

 

I got a 1060 as well and with the last driver the driver crashed in WoW, Surfing the net, as soon as the gfx card got used more than only desktop performance like. 

 

Went trouble shooting because having a game freezing every 5-10 minutes for a minute is no fun. 

 

the older driver fixed my issue.

 

Main System:

Anghammarad : Asrock Taichi x570, AMD Ryzen 7 5800X @4900 MHz. 32 GB DDR4 3600, some NVME SSDs, Gainward Phoenix RTX 3070TI

 

System 2 "Igluna" AsRock Fatal1ty Z77 Pro, Core I5 3570k @4300, 16 GB Ram DDR3 2133, some SSD, and a 2 TB HDD each, Gainward Phantom 760GTX.

System 3 "Inskah" AsRock Fatal1ty Z77 Pro, Core I5 3570k @4300, 16 GB Ram DDR3 2133, some SSD, and a 2 TB HDD each, Gainward Phantom 760GTX.

 

On the Road: Acer Aspire 5 Model A515-51G-54FD, Intel Core i5 7200U, 8 GB DDR4 Ram, 120 GB SSD, 1 TB SSD, Intel CPU GFX and Nvidia MX 150, Full HD IPS display

 

Media System "Vio": Aorus Elite AX V2, Ryzen 7 5700X, 64 GB Ram DDR4 3200 Mushkin, 1 275 GB Crucial MX SSD, 1 tb Crucial MX500 SSD. IBM 5015 Megaraid, 4 Seagate Ironwolf 4TB HDD in raid 5, 4 WD RED 4 tb in another Raid 5, Gainward Phoenix GTX 1060

 

(Abit Fatal1ty FP9 IN SLI, C2Duo E8400, 6 GB Ram DDR2 800, far too less diskspace, Gainward Phantom 560 GTX broken need fixing)

 

Nostalgia: Amiga 1200, Tower Build, CPU/FPU/MMU 68EC020, 68030, 68882 @50 Mhz, 10 MByte ram (2 MB Chip, 8 MB Fast), Fast SCSI II, 2 CDRoms, 2 1 GB SCSI II IBM Harddrives, 512 MB Quantum Lightning HDD, self soldered Sync changer to attach VGA displays, WLAN

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Just now, Anghammarad said:

Or an NVidia driver issue... the last year their drivers were more that craptastic... downgrade to an older driver for example 411.63 (a stable one)

 

I got a 1060 as well and with the last driver the driver crashed in WoW, Surfing the net, as soon as the gfx card got used more than only desktop performance like. 

 

Went trouble shooting because having a game freezing every 5-10 minutes for a minute is no fun. 

 

the older driver fixed my issue.

 

I will try this now

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6 minutes ago, nemeshisu said:

It reverted to 436.02 (I was on 436.15) I will quickly run through my programs to see if they crash

I miss the time where you could just update your Nvidia drivers without thinking... *sighs*

 

 

Main System:

Anghammarad : Asrock Taichi x570, AMD Ryzen 7 5800X @4900 MHz. 32 GB DDR4 3600, some NVME SSDs, Gainward Phoenix RTX 3070TI

 

System 2 "Igluna" AsRock Fatal1ty Z77 Pro, Core I5 3570k @4300, 16 GB Ram DDR3 2133, some SSD, and a 2 TB HDD each, Gainward Phantom 760GTX.

System 3 "Inskah" AsRock Fatal1ty Z77 Pro, Core I5 3570k @4300, 16 GB Ram DDR3 2133, some SSD, and a 2 TB HDD each, Gainward Phantom 760GTX.

 

On the Road: Acer Aspire 5 Model A515-51G-54FD, Intel Core i5 7200U, 8 GB DDR4 Ram, 120 GB SSD, 1 TB SSD, Intel CPU GFX and Nvidia MX 150, Full HD IPS display

 

Media System "Vio": Aorus Elite AX V2, Ryzen 7 5700X, 64 GB Ram DDR4 3200 Mushkin, 1 275 GB Crucial MX SSD, 1 tb Crucial MX500 SSD. IBM 5015 Megaraid, 4 Seagate Ironwolf 4TB HDD in raid 5, 4 WD RED 4 tb in another Raid 5, Gainward Phoenix GTX 1060

 

(Abit Fatal1ty FP9 IN SLI, C2Duo E8400, 6 GB Ram DDR2 800, far too less diskspace, Gainward Phantom 560 GTX broken need fixing)

 

Nostalgia: Amiga 1200, Tower Build, CPU/FPU/MMU 68EC020, 68030, 68882 @50 Mhz, 10 MByte ram (2 MB Chip, 8 MB Fast), Fast SCSI II, 2 CDRoms, 2 1 GB SCSI II IBM Harddrives, 512 MB Quantum Lightning HDD, self soldered Sync changer to attach VGA displays, WLAN

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4 minutes ago, Anghammarad said:

I miss the time where you could just update your Nvidia drivers without thinking... *sighs*

 

 

Yeah when they do this they make me want to go back to amd, never had an issue with them. BTW I just made an Apex Legends game (Since it was the game crashing the most) and I managed to start the game and even finish it and then it crashed when the match was over.. I tried to open PS and it opens normally, but I'll have to see tomorrow when I work if it has some sort of issue. It's behaving like it was before becoming unusable, just a random crash sometimes. At this point I really think the nvidia driver is the problem. How can I downgrade even more?

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4 minutes ago, nemeshisu said:

Yeah when they do this they make me want to go back to amd, never had an issue with them. BTW I just made an Apex Legends game (Since it was the game crashing the most) and I managed to start the game and even finish it and then it crashed when the match was over.. I tried to open PS and it opens normally, but I'll have to see tomorrow when I work if it has some sort of issue. It's behaving like it was before becoming unusable, just a random crash sometimes. At this point I really think the nvidia driver is the problem. How can I downgrade even more?

On the NVIdia site you can download older or beta versions of the drivers. 

 

even is now verly old, the 411.63 I mentioned above was the most stable one for my system. I used DDU to remove the installed driver then did a reboot and installed the 411.63. 

Main System:

Anghammarad : Asrock Taichi x570, AMD Ryzen 7 5800X @4900 MHz. 32 GB DDR4 3600, some NVME SSDs, Gainward Phoenix RTX 3070TI

 

System 2 "Igluna" AsRock Fatal1ty Z77 Pro, Core I5 3570k @4300, 16 GB Ram DDR3 2133, some SSD, and a 2 TB HDD each, Gainward Phantom 760GTX.

System 3 "Inskah" AsRock Fatal1ty Z77 Pro, Core I5 3570k @4300, 16 GB Ram DDR3 2133, some SSD, and a 2 TB HDD each, Gainward Phantom 760GTX.

 

On the Road: Acer Aspire 5 Model A515-51G-54FD, Intel Core i5 7200U, 8 GB DDR4 Ram, 120 GB SSD, 1 TB SSD, Intel CPU GFX and Nvidia MX 150, Full HD IPS display

 

Media System "Vio": Aorus Elite AX V2, Ryzen 7 5700X, 64 GB Ram DDR4 3200 Mushkin, 1 275 GB Crucial MX SSD, 1 tb Crucial MX500 SSD. IBM 5015 Megaraid, 4 Seagate Ironwolf 4TB HDD in raid 5, 4 WD RED 4 tb in another Raid 5, Gainward Phoenix GTX 1060

 

(Abit Fatal1ty FP9 IN SLI, C2Duo E8400, 6 GB Ram DDR2 800, far too less diskspace, Gainward Phantom 560 GTX broken need fixing)

 

Nostalgia: Amiga 1200, Tower Build, CPU/FPU/MMU 68EC020, 68030, 68882 @50 Mhz, 10 MByte ram (2 MB Chip, 8 MB Fast), Fast SCSI II, 2 CDRoms, 2 1 GB SCSI II IBM Harddrives, 512 MB Quantum Lightning HDD, self soldered Sync changer to attach VGA displays, WLAN

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3 minutes ago, Anghammarad said:

On the NVIdia site you can download older or beta versions of the drivers. 

 

even is now verly old, the 411.63 I mentioned above was the most stable one for my system. I used DDU to remove the installed driver then did a reboot and installed the 411.63. 

I will do the same things you did now and never upgrading this crap until I can assemble my new PC, hoping that I won't have the same problems with it. I can't believe I delayed my work and lost endless matches in R6 for a stupid driver.

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