PC randomly froze

Luffy321

It does. What should I do with this information?

-TangleFoot-

Luffy321 wrote: »

What should I do with this information?

Nothing - this merely confirms that the problem you're having is severe enough to prevent the system from logging a fault. It may still be a software issue, but an external influence is not out of the question.

Luffy321

In all honesty I think it is to do with the gpu and the drivers.

A while ago I updated to the new nvidia gpu driver (cant remember the code). And my PC started freezing up crashing and randomly going black screen and all sorts. I saw on the internet that alot of people were having the same problem with the new driver, so I used the roll back system in device manager to go back to the former driver I was using.

I dunno if there is still some unresolved conflict there.

robmar0se

Luffy321 wrote: »

In all honesty I think it is to do with the gpu and the drivers.

Have you tried rolling back the drivers? Which version are you using? Any idea what temp the gpu is running at?

Luffy321

I did roll it back using DM but there could be unresolved conflict since I never explicitly uninstalled the the new driver 301.42 .

I dont know my GPU temp but it cant be high since I dont have an overclocked system and my 2 front reared fans are always on.

Maybe a clean install of the GPU driver is what is needed rather than rolling back?

Enterprise_1701C

You don't say when it froze. Was it when you were coming to this site? If it was then it is a common and known issue, but I cannot recall what that issue is!!

robmar0se

Why not try one of the previous driver downloads 295 or 296?

Luffy321

The issue is I still dont know what the problem is. The GPU is only my suspicions.

I talking about a crash where the display image is completely frozen but the computer is still running. So that has something to do with the GPU. Usually I would suspect a faulty GPU but not this time because latest Nvidia driver 301.42 was very buggy for me and resulted in the same type of the crash, flickering when gaming and complete loss of display image (to a black screen).

I rolled back to a previous driver and most of my problems disappeared but Im wondering if the legacy of driver 301.42 (since I never uninstalled it but just roll backed the driver) is the cause of the random freeze I got yesterday.

What Im getting at is I have no way of knowing or testing what the problem is.

Toxteth_OGrady

Uninstall gfx driver and clean up with something like http://downloads.guru3d.com/download.php?det=1655

Re-install an earlier driver.

Run in turn the GPU and CPU stress tests from http://www.ocbase.com/

Luffy321

How long does the stress test take?