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I think my graphics card driver is making my PC freeze. What to do?
JustAnotherSaver
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My PC was running fine. I updated the graphics driver & shortly afterwards it began freezing often. I couldn't do anything. Good old faithful Ctrl+Alt+Del didn't do anything. I had to hit reset.
I restored & went back to the old driver & everything was fine.
FFWD months later & i ended up formatting my HDD (yesterday). I got new downloads for absolutely everything - printer, mouse, keyboard etc etc etc .... and graphics card.
I've just been setting the PC back up since yesterday & it's froze twice on me. Just done it now as i was trying to install PowerDVD. I think yesterday it happened just as i was browsing the net.
Thing is, 1) i don't remember the driver version that last worked 2) I don't have it on backup.
What to do?
NVidia GeForce GTX 460 it says under device manager.
"331.82-desktop-win8-win7-winvista-64bit-english-whql" is the name of the driver currently installed.
I restored & went back to the old driver & everything was fine.
FFWD months later & i ended up formatting my HDD (yesterday). I got new downloads for absolutely everything - printer, mouse, keyboard etc etc etc .... and graphics card.
I've just been setting the PC back up since yesterday & it's froze twice on me. Just done it now as i was trying to install PowerDVD. I think yesterday it happened just as i was browsing the net.
Thing is, 1) i don't remember the driver version that last worked 2) I don't have it on backup.
What to do?
NVidia GeForce GTX 460 it says under device manager.
"331.82-desktop-win8-win7-winvista-64bit-english-whql" is the name of the driver currently installed.
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Does it freeze only when running certain programs? Can you check if any such programs have a 'enable hardware acceleration' option and disable this, then wait & see if things improve?0
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No it's pretty random.
I think i was trying to update a program earlier when it froze. Yesterday i was just browsing.0 -
Go to your computer manufacturers website, look under 'Support' and download the drivers for the requisite graphics card.You can lose a loose goose.
You cannot loose a lose goose.
Get it? Now use it before you lose it.
or - Try using it - not losing it.
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I got some old drivers in the end & touch wood, so far it's been ok.
Apparently it's supposed to be a common issue with the new drivers.0
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