GPU driver diagnostics / help

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axon1988

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One of my older GPUs is acting funny. I have this sad feeling that "yee olde beast" GTX285 has finally decided to call it a day. Here's what is happening;

- The pc would start up fine, with everything working 100%, I can play games without any artifacts or anything funny happening. I can watch movies without any hassles.
- As soon as my mouse goes into stand by mode, that's when the problems start.
1. Screen blacks out and computer freezes for about 1 - 2 seconds.
2. I get a pop up notification that my GPU drivers have crashed.

Any ideas on what is happening? I've been monitoring the GPU closely since this started and I'm not seeing any strange happenings. I've reinstalled drivers, completely removed them and done a whole setup from scratch. I've removed the GPU and reinstalled that. (I can't test it on another machine for now)

This GPU is old sure, and it's been keeping me happy for years now without any problem. But I don't want to upgrade YET, I feel it's not worth it just yet.

System specs:
GPU - Nvidia Geforce GTX285
PSU - CM Silent Pro 600W
CPU - Intel i7 2600
Motherboard - ASRock Pro4-M

I have a decent enough cooling system going on, but the card never ever goes above 75 degrees, and it only reaches those temps when I play around with benchmarks. It's never been overclocked, about 8 months ago I took off the heatsink and cleaned out all the dirt and reapplied it all.

Again, feedback would be greatly appreciated.
 
Cant believe since I posted my driver problem now everybody has a driver problem.

axon1988 in the processes tab in your task manager....do you have a process called iehighutil.exe running?
 
Big big big problems with drivers recently. Uninstall driver software. Safe mode. Literally remove the adapter from device manager. Restart. Reinstall

See if that helps. Good luck
 
Damn bitcoin miners... That was rather terrible. My gpu is back to normal now, however games are running really bad now, not gettign above 30FPS on games where I used to get over 60FPS... nasty piece of code that.
 
NomNom said:
It all comes down to having a decent anti-virus program.
Click to expand...

Except that the anti virus I used did not detect it, nor was it detected on anyone else's pc it seems. I used 3 anti virus programs to test with, and scanned the actual folder where the process it located.

MSE could not detect any problems.
ESET Nod32 could not detect it.
Kaspersky also did not detect anything.
 
Upload it to virustotal.com and see how many anti-virus products can detect it ;)
 
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