Graphic card losing drivers?

I finally got me a PCI-E card for my K8N-Neo3. I found a Gainward 6600 GT Golden sample at a reasonable price. I installed it and has run it for a week or so. Done some 3dmarks with good results and a big smile on my face.
Though lately I have run into some problems. Sometimes when i play AmericasArmy and Alt+tab out of the game or just escape to the settings I get graphic errors. A really weird error where the whole screen goes stripey and I cant do anything. At a few times I have been able to close the game and get the screen right again but most times it just locks up. When It locks I turn the comp off and restart. When its restarted the drivers for my graphic card are lost and the card uses some sort of windows rescue driver. The only way to get it back to normal is to reinstall the drivers from scratch.
I have no clue as to why it does this. I have tries a few different drivers with the same results(blue screens with some, IRQ NOT LESS OR EQUAL) and also tried changing the clock on my graphic card, CPU and Memory but its still the same. Sometimes it works fine for days, sometimes it crashes three times in an hour.
The temp on my graphic card doesnt go above 70 degrees at load and cpu, sys and harddrives are under or around 40 deg.
Any clues? Im thinking format c: myself

Quote from: Killawife on 29-May-05, 23:16:28
Well the memtest show no errors.
But I believe its the powersupply thats a bit weak. I only have a 360W chieftech with 17Amps on the 12v line. And I hear 6600 GT cards are notoriously powerhungry.
I guess another upgrade is the key.
Yeah, plenty of good stable power will solve all kinds of problems. Some obvious, some not so.
Shoot for 450W+ & more than 24A and that should take care of things and then some.

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