Computer crashing randomly, boots with black screen and cursor


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    Computer crashing randomly, boots with black screen and cursor


    Hello friends,

    Today my computer started crashing. Whenever the crash occurred my computer sounded incredibly loud, ostensibly with fans blazing. Additionally, I noticed the crashing was occurring during gaming (but it hadn't ever before), so I put a temperature monitor on my second screen. I observed that it was crashing at only about 80-83 degrees, which had never led to a crash before. My card is a GTX 760 and should, from what I have read, be able to survive 83 degrees without my computer crashing. Later in the day, my computer started crashing randomly. Then, whenever I booted normally I would only get a black screen with a white cursor after logging in. Then I reinstalled graphics drivers and the computer worked fine for half an hour and started crashing again. An hour later and it will only boot to the black screen with a white cursor (although safe mode working is absolutely fine albeit running on my secondary screen for some reason). Some of the crashes have recorded as bsods by my computer and I have done what the sticky says with them. I believe the issue is my card going bad but I would love a more knowledgeable opinion from the wonderful people here. The log files are attached.

    Thanks in advance!
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    I only just remembered that I have a bootable windows 7 on a separate hard drive from a month ago. It is running updated nvidia drivers and was completely fine before I switched to the os installed on my SSD. I selected it in the boot menu and it booted to windows and did the same crash as always about a minute later. This leads me to conclude its a hardware problem. Additionally, it seems likely that the card is screwed up although the psu and the card are both under a year old. I'm still under warranty so I think I will send it back to gainward. Any thoughts?
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