The drivers I have are actually from the official Intel site. So if the CPU can run for 30 minutes at 100% without overheating, I'm pretty sure it's not a heat problem.īesides, if it was a heat issue I would've experienced these problems when I had my GPU installed too.

What the CPU test does is it makes the CPU run at 100%. I ran a CPU test with the Intel Extreme Tuning utility for 30 minutes and the hottest the CPU got was 62c. Have you tried in-box drivers instead of those from Intel's site? They probably won't be quite as optimized but they are likely to be more stable. But there is a difference in stability between those who took the extra steps to align their methods with how the OS works and those who did not. Now clearly Intel, AMD/ATI and NVidia all have excellent programmers. As far as I can recall Intel was never on campus. And MSFT was happy because their customers had a better impression of Windows. Soon after that NVidia took MSFT up on their offer. ATI drivers got a lot better fast and soon NVidia was responsible for over 1/2 of all bluescreens by themselves. ATI (before they were bought by AMD) accepted Microsoft's offer to send a driver team to live in Redmond, WA and work in Microsoft provided offices on main campus so that they could work day in and day out with Microsoft's DDK and device teams. A few years ago, well quite a few actually, most crashes on PCs were caused by video drivers and over 1/2 of them by Nvidia. Have you checked if the PC has dust and such in it? It 'might' not be driver problems but heat issues not being handled gracefully.Īs for the Video drivers, those have always been a problem.

That's what I tried but like I said this was a non-reference model.īut there's no way to simply stop the Intel HD Driver from randomly crashing? You use a philips 0 screw driver and release the whole cooler assembly from underneath,then take the shroud off ,fan off, etc etc.īut you may have some luck if you expand the ram for graphics use in bios.

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