Should I be worried? video drivers crashing but switching PCI slots fixes it

[tracerit]

Lately I've been getting crashes when gaming (BF4, League of Legends) involving the video card. I tried reinstalling, updating, and switching around my nvidia drivers. I finally decided to try and switch the video card from the top slot to the bottom slot and now all those issues are gone.

Could this possibly be a motherboard problem or can it be software related? Just concerned about future issues.

 

[Kenmitch]

I guess it could be either software or hardware. The only way to know for sure would be to do a fresh install of the OS. Do you have a spare drive to test with in case it turns out to be hardware related?

 

[rgallant]

maybe it just needed to be reseated ,or the new slot caused the bios to think about what it was. [love plug and play ]
-try putting it back into the same slot again
-reset the bios make sure it's the latest
-disable on board igpu
-boot to pci-e not auto
-set for pci-e 3
-also check your sound device is the default play back device ,winxx see's the nv hdmi as 4 x play back devices.
some things to try.

 

[tracerit]

thinking about it, i did take the video card out to test the quietness without the EVGA cooling fan. and it happened after i put it back in.

 

[kyrax12]

Are you getting artifacts?