Are the drivers up to date?

It is! Which is the weird part. XD

Best of luck working to get it fixed.

Worse case, need people to throw cash at you?

Thank you!

It's okay, if push comes to shoves I probably can afford to replace it, it's just that this card is barely 2 years old. @.@

Best of luck with that then.

The offer stands if needed. :P

almost definitely an error in your system! reinstalling your os would probably fix it but i imagine you dont want to do that. good luck trying to solve it!

I've actually tried that already! Though I think I may not have done it thoroughly enough? @.@

how's the cooling system?

I have no ideaaaaaa. I'm probably the least computer savvy person you'll know. :X But yeah, gonna give it a dusting and try and see if all the fans are working. :X

In your position I would try fully uninstalling the card driver and then installing a new version.

Is the card really hot right after a crash? Does the fan spin when it's on? Is there another slot in your motherboard you can put it in?

Going to try that now!

And I have no real idea... I suppose I can try moving it to a different slot if it still persists.

Check to see if somehow any electricity it passing through or touching the card. I've heard that some people have weird issues when an electric current from their computer's power supply goes to the card and is too strong.

Anyways, best of luck in getting it fixed! Hope it wasn't too expensive of a card.

Huh! That's actually an interesting theory... do you mean like, wire touching the card or something...?

Yes and no. Sometimes the card is seated close to the power supply, and when the metal touches metal (in some cases) a unwanted current flows through and can do pretty much anything to the card and your system. But this isn't always the case. Sometimes people have a power supply that gives too much or too little power to the card, and sometimes that can lead to problems.

And yeah, I've had a friend who had a spare wire that was supposed to connect to some extra feature he didn't have that dangled down and touched his card. Thing wouldn't work, crashed, and was super glitchy for a week until he pried the case open and looked inside.

If you can't find anything wrong with the power supply, worst case scenario is you can either try a new card or try and find some place to send in your computer system as a whole so they can test it and see what's wrong.

Personally, I would make sure the power supply you have is able to handle to graphics card you've got, and just try and make sure nothing is touching it. After that, my level of computer expertise can't help xD

Thank you for the info! That's actually an interesting point that I hadn't considered... I'll move the card around a bit and see if it fixes anything. I did send my whole computer to a shop once and they also told me they saw nothing wrong, so either it's triggering off some really specific, obscure reason or the shop's just incompetent... which I'll give them the benefit of the doubt and say they knew what they were doing. XD

But hey, thanks!