Re: Problems with NVIDIA drivers
2014/04/03 20:08:04
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If I had any overclocking, that would have been my first guess as to whats causing the problem. But since there is apparently so little you can do extra to the 660 (not the Ti) I never tweaked it. I only run PrecisionX for the fan controller and the occasional performance monitoring. And as of the second crash I disabled PrecisionX, so it hasn't been running for a few days.
Here is something strange, I found something that will crash it consistently. When I'm signed into gmail, at the top right of the screen there is a bell shaped icon (notification icon for something). When I click on it and try to interact with it I get a crash (successfully crashed twice in a row....yah, once was bad enough I know :) ). All this icon does is notify on activity (apparently YouTube activity). It doesn't try to link me to another page or anything, it just simply freezes for a split second then goes black. (I dont typically have any sort of notifications enabled, but thats a problem to address on a later date.) I just find it odd that something like this would cause a full graphics blackout.
Could I have a bum internet browser version? I recently (month or so ago) got the most recent version of FireFox (yes, FireFox :) ). All my auto update functions are off so I know I dont have anything newer than what I originally put on when I reloaded my OS 2 months ago.
Other than the one or two crashes I had during a game (was not an online game or a game tied to the internet) all the crashes since then have been when my browser was open. And as far as I can remember its been when I had Gmail open.
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