332.21 Random Reboots?

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zod96

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Ever since installing the WHQL drivers 332.21 I get these totally random reboots. I will be surfing the net or playing a game, and bam my system actually turns off then back on again. Is anyone is getting issues like this with these drivers?
 
i would check another hardware like a faulty PSU, Surge Problems, etc.. a corrupted driver at most can crash a game, not shut-down the whole machine.. it can even disable your GPU and you will still have image with the common "Generic VGA monitor" and the driver off..
 
PSU is about 6 months old. I'll check the surge protector next...
 
I installed the new beta drivers 334.67 So far its been OK. No reboots. But with that said it only did the reboot thing like twice in one week so its hard to tell if that was the problem or not....
 
I had huge BSOD issues with 332.21 on my 690, reverted to the previous drivers with no issues
 
That's just it. It doesn't BSOD, it just shuts off my PC then turns back on. No blue screen nothing.
 
zod96 said:
That's just it. It doesn't BSOD, it just shuts off my PC then turns back on. No blue screen nothing.
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That's either a bad PSU or bad PCI-E slot (faulty motherboard.) This is also ruling out the fact you don't have a faulty GPU. Bad ram will tend to give you IRQ errors or errors that tend to be about conflicts or exceptions (blue screens), but a faulty GPU and PSU can give you what you are describing, a full system restar -- basically like someone came in and pulled the plug on whatever you were doing on your PC at the time. I would check the PSU and the Motherboard and then move from there to the GPU.
 
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I was having issues with these drivers as well. I disabled the nvidia streamer service and my rig seems to have calmed down. I also disabled the nvidia virutal audio service - don't know what that one does. These drivers are starting to get real bloated.
 
I do a custom install with nVidia's drivers and only install the base graphics driver. I also stick with 9.13.0725 for PhysX. Doing that, I don't encounter issues. It the past, before doing that, I did sometimes have shit crop up with their HD audio driver.
 
Just because the driver changes and the BSODs go away doesn't mean it was the driver (though it could). Often with gfx cards, it means the different driver is no longer tickling the issue.
 
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