Nvidia causing my computer to crash randomly

[EVOluti0n]

This has been going on for a couple months now and it's finally broken my last nerve. I mainly use my computer for browsing, music and WoW. When I am gaming sometimes the screen will go black the audio will continue for a couple seconds then it will either recover or start stuttering and I am forced to do a hard shut down and reboot. When it recovers there's a message that says "Nvidia kernel mode driver xxx.xx has stopped working but was recovered." I put x's because this has happened with 2 different versions of the software, 350.12 and 353.06. I have tried many different solutions but so far none have worked. This just happened again and I don't know if there's something that can stop this from happening or if I have to replace my Nvidia card with another brand, which I don't want to do for financial reasons but will if necessary. 

 

Specs: 

ASUS M5A97 R2.0 AM3+ AMD 970 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX AMD Motherboard

Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO - CPU Cooler

EVGA EVGA GeForce GTX 970 Superclocked ACX 2.0 4GB GDDR5 256bit

Western Digital Caviar Green 3 TB SATA III

Kingston HyperX FURY 16GB Kit (2x8GB)

Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 64bit

Corsair CX Series 430 Watt ATX/EPS Modular 80 PLUS Bronze ATX12V/EPS12V 384 Power Supply

AMD FD6300WMHKBOX FX-6300 6-Core Processor Black Edition

 

Plez tell me there's something that I can do to fix this cuz this has ticked me off for the last time. When I first built the rig at my mom's house it was not doing this but since I moved it into my own dorm building it has been happening. I am moving soon to an apartment so idk if it is where I'm at now that's causing it or if that even matters. Someone help plez

[Comessy]

Is it overclocked? I feel like that could be an issue

[Hman1250]

It's most likely your power supply actually. It seems like it's crashing. Nvidia recommends at least a 500 watt power supply to power up the GTX 970, it says on their site

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Did you overclock? That PSU is bad by the way.

[NickElDubs]

I have seen 970's run on 450watts but not 430, it is probably your PSU

[Swndlr]

I have seen 970's run on 450watts but not 430, it is probably your PSU

 

Did you overclock? That PSU is bad by the way.

 

It's most likely your power supply actually. It seems like it's crashing. Nvidia recommends at least a 500 watt power supply to power up the GTX 970, it says on their site

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[Zayzo]

 

This has been going on for a couple months now and it's finally broken my last nerve. I mainly use my computer for browsing, music and WoW. When I am gaming sometimes the screen will go black the audio will continue for a couple seconds then it will either recover or start stuttering and I am forced to do a hard shut down and reboot. When it recovers there's a message that says "Nvidia kernel mode driver xxx.xx has stopped working but was recovered." I put x's because this has happened with 2 different versions of the software, 350.12 and 353.06. I have tried many different solutions but so far none have worked. This just happened again and I don't know if there's something that can stop this from happening or if I have to replace my Nvidia card with another brand, which I don't want to do for financial reasons but will if necessary. 

 

Specs: 

ASUS M5A97 R2.0 AM3+ AMD 970 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX AMD Motherboard

Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO - CPU Cooler

EVGA EVGA GeForce GTX 970 Superclocked ACX 2.0 4GB GDDR5 256bit

Western Digital Caviar Green 3 TB SATA III

Kingston HyperX FURY 16GB Kit (2x8GB)

Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 64bit

Corsair CX Series 430 Watt ATX/EPS Modular 80 PLUS Bronze ATX12V/EPS12V 384 Power Supply

AMD FD6300WMHKBOX FX-6300 6-Core Processor Black Edition

 

Plez tell me there's something that I can do to fix this cuz this has ticked me off for the last time. When I first built the rig at my mom's house it was not doing this but since I moved it into my own dorm building it has been happening. I am moving soon to an apartment so idk if it is where I'm at now that's causing it or if that even matters. Someone help plez

 

Take the overclock off your cpu and gpu til you get a beefier psu.

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+1

 

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[EVOluti0n]

I am not very savvy with the software so if it is overclocked I didn't do it myself, is there a way that I can check or change that?

[Swndlr]

= 4

My bad lad

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<3

[Zayzo]

oh boi

[Swndlr]

I am not very savvy with the software so if it is overclocked I didn't do it myself, is there a way that I can check or change that?

Odds are if you didnt overclock it, its not overclocked.

[Lolucoca]

Got the same problem with my non-OC GTX 980 and 800 watts.

[fullout]

I also have the same problem on 2 different computers. The last 2 driver updates have been problematic for me.

[StormEye]

Odds are if you didnt overclock it, its not overclocked.

The card is factory OC'd

[Jlryan]

So much hate for the CX...

 

Honestly I doubt it's the power supply causing issues. It wouldn't just be your GPU giving errors if there was a problem on the supply line of the PSU. There would be BSoD's galore from all different sources.

 

Also: CX430 Review http://www.jonnyguru.com/modules.php?name=NDReviews&op=Story4&reid=214

 

Back on topic-

 

The last time I was having problems with Nvidia drivers crashing constantly and out of nowhere was because of the HDAudio driver that also installs with the main software. Open up task manager and see if there's multiple instances of the Nvidia HD Audio.

 

As a precaution anyway, I would uninstall the drivers completely, and re-install fresh but go into custom and uncheck 3D Vision and HD Audio. Also check the "clean install" box.

[Swndlr]

The card is factory OC'd

Hes speaking of the CPU I believe

[StormEye]

Take the overclock off your cpu and gpu til you get a beefier psu.

 

Hes speaking of the CPU I believe

Talking about both CPU and GPU.

 

Since OP doesn't know how to OC CPU, the only remaining OC is GPU, and the card he has is factory OC'd GPU.

[Swndlr]

Talking about both CPU and GPU.

 

Since OP doesn't know how to OC CPU, the only remaining OC is GPU, and the card he has is factory OC'd GPU.

Makes sense

[BlmMagic]

I had the same problem with a msi 980 ti with a 750 watts psu.. Not overclocked. The nvidia control panel has a power saving feature that will randomly kick in and put the card in power saving mode. ( or something like that) You can disable such feature. I did it on mine and it has not given me that error anymore. there is a video floating around with the fix. * hope this helps.

[Kick]

I have been having the same problem, but it seemed to appear almost directly after I switched to an Intel CPU from AMD. I don't know if this was coincidence, because I've been reading about other people having this problem too. Nothing I have tried has worked so far, pretty frustrating.

[Jlryan]

I have been having the same problem, but it seemed to appear almost directly after I switched to an Intel CPU from AMD. I don't know if this was coincidence, because I've been reading about other people having this problem too. Nothing I have tried has worked so far, pretty frustrating.

I hope you did a fresh install of Windows!

[EVOluti0n]

Just happened again after I reinstalled the driver's and turned off the HD audio and 3d audio so that didn't work. This time it did the black screen followed by the unresponsive audio stutter.

[Jlryan]

It was a long shot at best, I suggest trying what @BlmMagic said with turning off the power saving feature in Nvidia Control Panel, set it to maximum performance.

 

[EVOluti0n]

Alright I've done that just now, now just to see if it happens again. Thank you for all the replies and the help