Crashing Drivers

[Goose2]

Hey there, Currently my computer continues to crash if i do not open a game to run...some time the driver will recover and other time it will just freeze the entire computer. Im useing a GigaByte Geforce GTX 770 2GB 256-bit GDDR 5 (http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814125463&nm_mc=TEMC-RMA-Approvel&cm_mmc=TEMC-RMA-Approvel-_-Content-_-text-_-)

 

If i cant get a game open fast enough it crashes by freezing the screen and putting squares all over the place and distorting the picture or the whole monitar so its changing colour to green... 

This is what is says after it has crashed i have clean installed my drivers multiple times and it doesn't seem to work.. it helps for a bit then it goes back to being bad

thanks for the help

[guas5373]

Have you tried other driver versions?

[Akolyte]

Have you tried updating your drivers and reinstalling windows? 

[guas5373]

I see you are on beta drivers. Try switching to 331.82, the latest stable drivers.

[Goose2]

i have used the 331.82 drivers and it was doing the same thing i havent tryed reintalling windows yet ill hvae to give it a try.. would a system restore be possible to fix it if im missing something so should i just reinstall windows

[Vindola]

Have you tried updating your drivers and reinstalling windows? 

 

I like how people often suggest reinstalling the whole operating system whenever any problem shows. Like it's not a a total pain in the ass to go through the whole process reinstalling the OS and all the other programs and settings every time something goes wrong in the computer. Come on people... come on.

 

 

Hey there, Currently my computer continues to crash if i do not open a game to run...some time the driver will recover and other time it will just freeze the entire computer. Im useing a GigaByte Geforce GTX 770 2GB 256-bit GDDR 5 

 

Check the fan speeds when you turn on the PC. I had a problem like this happening before and it was caused by overheating. The fan would not actually turn up when the GPU is on idle. It would only turn up when there's a demand on it (a game in this case) If that's the case, install MSI afterburner to control the fan speed yourself.

 

If that's not the problem, try to restore the PC to an earlier point and see if that fixes the issue.

 

If that doesn't work, attempt a GPU BIOS flash (http://www.overclock.net/t/1211151/flashing-nvidia-bios-within-windows)

 

If that doesn't work, post more details here and we will try to help more.

 

If that doesn't work, and you have lost all hope, then and only then reinstall Windows.

[Akolyte]

Then use the Geforce experience or go to your graphics card's manufacturers website and download a stable driver.  Remove any custom boot screens, themes etc and run a virus scan with malwarebytes just to make sure.  If that doesn't work slam in your windows disk and do a repair install, which will keep all your drivers and stuff but the system 32 and stuff will be all refreshed.  Doing that will cross out the corrupted windows files problem.  

[Akolyte]

I like how people often suggest reinstalling the whole operating system whenever any problem shows. Like it's not a a total pain in the ass to go through the whole process reinstalling the OS and all the other programs and settings every time something goes wrong in the computer. Come on people... come on.

 

 

 

Check the fan speeds when you turn on the PC. I had a problem like this happening before and it was caused by overheating. The fan would not actually turn up when the GPU is on idle. It would only turn up when there's a demand on it (a game in this case) If that's the case, install MSI afterburner to control the fan speed yourself.

 

If that's not the problem, try to restore the PC to an earlier point and see if that fixes the issue.

 

If that doesn't work, attempt a GPU BIOS flash (http://www.overclock.net/t/1211151/flashing-nvidia-bios-within-windows)

 

If that doesn't work, post more details here and we will try to help more.

 

If that doesn't work, and you have lost all hope, then and only then reinstall Windows.

Quite frankly a reinstall would be safer than doing a BIOS flash

[Vindola]

Quite frankly a reinstall would be safer than doing a BIOS flash

 

Safer? Sure. A hell lot more pain in the ass? Definitely! Reinstalling the entire operating system for every problem that shows up is a very idiotic and time consuming solution as, obviously, it would be very frustrating to reinstall all the programs the user had, re-do all the personal settings, transfer back all the old data and so forth, a process that can take days.

 

No, reinstalling the OS should be done only if all other options to solve the problem are exhausted, or the problem is on a fresh system where reinstalling the OS would not cause the loss of a lot of data.

 

That being said, there should be little to no risks at all if the GPU is flashed with a BIOS that is meant for that GPU (As the guide I posted shows) It would be high risk if you flash it with a BIOS of another card model (like when flashing a 290 with a 290x BIOS)

[Akolyte]

Safer? Sure. A hell lot more pain in the ass? Definitely! Reinstalling the entire operating system for every problem that shows up is a very idiotic and time consuming solution as, obviously, it would be very frustrating to reinstall all the programs the user had, re-do all the personal settings, transfer back all the old data and so forth, a process that can take days.

 

No, reinstalling the OS should be done only if all other options to solve the problem are exhausted, or the problem is on a fresh system where reinstalling the OS would not cause the loss of a lot of data.

 

That being said, there should be little to no risks at all if the GPU is flashed with a BIOS that is meant for that GPU (As the guide I posted shows) It would be high risk if you flash it with a BIOS of another card model (like when flashing a 290 with a 290x BIOS)

He could do a repair install?  No personal files lost

[Vindola]

He could do a repair install?  No personal files lost

 

Sure, but it still should probably attempted after checking that system restoring does not solve the problem.

[Akolyte]

Sure, but it still should probably attempted after checking that system restoring does not solve the problem.

Yeah. It seems more like a gpu problem anyways.  Restoring Windows files ins't going to make the gpu any better.  

[Goose2]

I reinstalled windows and its still doing it unfortunately