Melrick
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So, now I’m getting a “Display driver Nvidia Windows kernel mode driver xxxxx stopped responding and has successfully recovered” problems. Every couple of minutes, which started yesterday. Did a system restore to a previous stable version and now we wait. If it keeps doing it then it could be hardware, as in a failing video card. But if that’s true then there’s the question of why I’ve had multiple hardware failures all of a sudden. Which could suggest a problem with the motherboard. We’ll have a very anxious wait to see if it does it again. *sigh*
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If it’s hardware, then one possibility is a bad power supply. (When those are bad, it can manifest itself as bad hardware across the board.) I seriously overrated mine the last time I did a replacement, and it’s been good for 8-9 years so far, it even came with a free copy of windows 7, which was fairly new at the time.
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Yeah, a dodgy psu is one thing I’ve thought of. If it’s occasionally feeding incorrect voltage to things then that could certainly explain why I had two hard drives fail simultaneously. Time for a thorough health check on my computer, I think.
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It's hardware not software. Will have to take computer in on Monday. I'm typing this on my phone since I'll be leaving my computer off. So a message to DG, i won't be on here to do my work for an unknown length of time.
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