Suspected Graphics Card Issues

[Englander]

So last night I was watching a film on my PC whilst GPU folding when all of a sudden my PC crashed. I turned it off and then on again and it froze just as the desktop appeared. Frustrated, I left it off overnight and tried again in the morning hoping that a nice rest would make the problem go away - alas, the problem persisted.

So far I've discovered that Safe Mode works fine (it's what I'm using now) and I've deleted F@H from the start up folder. Interestingly, this delays the freezing by a couple of seconds (originally it froze immediately after the desktop appears, but now I can move the mouse around a bit before it then freezes.)

Does this seem to be an issue with the graphics card to you? Further information about it: a tad over 1 year old, usually runs at stock, recently (last week) overclocked to 700MHz core (stock is 600MHz) and 1000MHz memory (stock is 900MHz) and it has an aftermarket cooler (fitted a couple of weeks ago).

I'm not really sure what to do, hence why I've come here to gather opinions from other Hexites

Michael

[Blaineoliver]

Could just be that drivers have gone bad? Wipe them in safe mode then restart.

[peterb]

Remove the overclock first.

[Englander]

Reinstalling the drivers appears to have done it!

I don't think I had the option of removing the overclock on the graphics card back in safe mode.