Overheating-ish

My specs -

T8300 2.4ghz
3GB Rams
8600m GT 512 DDR2

I'm having a bit of trouble with games. Games that should be fine seem to crash and reboot my system. I have 2 software that monitor my GPU temp and both say it never goes above 65 celsius. I used to think that the setting were just to high and it wold crash because it couldn't handle it... but does that happen at low temps? I would assume a major lag with high settings, but it shouldn't crash unless the temp was way above 60-70 right?

I have tried multiple drivers, both laptopvideos2go and nvidia one. I have a cooler which keeps the tempurature under 70, but it still has artifacts and crashing going on. Laptop is pretty new, less than 2 months.

Any Ideas?

What can damage a GPU? I understand that simple things like heating and bumping may damage it, what else might cause it to go bad?

 

What error does it give you?

Aslong as you dont go over 90c then its not the hardware.

Im guessing it is your drivers. It wasnt cleaned out properly.

Download driversweeper, run it on safemode then install the 185.20 drivers from laptopvideo2go

 

My 9600GT goes up to 90 under heavy load (overclocked), but doesn't crash. It's weird to see a new laptop having such difficulties. At such temps it's strange, but could it be a faulty element of the card? For example, a faulty memory chip?

 

Oh, by the way, what do you monitor your temps with?

 

has this always happened or did it recently happen? maybe the 8600m gt was faulty or became faulty?

 

Also, which laptop is it???

 

I use GPU-Z and RivaTuner.

It is an MSI GX700.

Aslo... if I remove the driver from the programs and features area, does that clean out the driver, or is the above mentioned software the only real way?

Oh, it only crashes on some games, more often on some, rarely with some. I can play Oblivion, sports games, Fallout 3 with no problems. Left4Dead crashes once in awhile, maybe once a week or two. Guild Wars has crashed on me the most, and sadly it's my favorite game. GW can crash maybe 3 or 4 times a day depending on how much I game... With that in mind, I'm sure it isn't a faulty hardware.

 

When you uninstall a driver that your currently using, some modules of it do not cannot be removed because it is in use so it just gets left behind.

This is why you do it on Safe Mode, where it runs on the bare minimum drivers.