System Freezing After GT 1030 Added

[owensdj]

I replaced an older AMD HD6450 PCI-E card with a new MSI GT 1030 card. Now I'm seeing freezing sometimes when I play videos in a browser. The freezing makes the whole system pause for a second or two, even the mouse. This includes sites like Youtube and Netflix. I tried clearing out all of the Nvidia drivers, running Display Driver Uninstaller, and installing with just the drivers and none of the other Nvidia software.

GPU-Z shows that the card isn't overheating. It usually stays 33-37C.

i7-3770 3.4GHz
Gigabyte GA-Z77MX-D3H
8GB memory
500W Power supply
Windows 10 Pro 64-bit

 

[VirtualLarry]

You're saying it "pauses", and not "freezes" (hard lock).

Do you have a HDD or SSD? How old (if HDD), or how full (if SSD) is it?

Have you checked your CPU temps lately, especially when watching videos? Have you cleaned out the dust bunnies out of your CPU heatsink / fan in the last six months?

Might be a driver problem too. Did you install drivers for the new card, off of a CD, or fresh from NVidia's web site (preferred).

 

[Guru]

Driver issues. Uninstall AMD's drivers, uninstall Nvidia drivers, use DDU to do so and uninstall in SAFE MODE. Make sure to install a cleaning utility like Ccleaner(though its become spyware now, so try and find alternative ones) and clear your cache and temp files.

Then install the Nvidia drivers fresh.

You can also check in the bios if maybe it has defaulted to your IGP. So go to your bios and make sure that discrete GPU is being used and NOT your IGP.