Windows 8.1 with some random "stopped working" errors - how can I fix it?

[Prowindows62]

Hello!! My old computer with Windows 8.1 has a problem which says something has stopped working almost everytime.
It usally say "NVIDIA Backend has stopped working" twice every 20 seconds. I reinstalled it but gave the same error after a week.
How can I fix it? Is my hard drive failing? Thanks!

 

[eidairaman1]

Hello!! My old computer with Windows 8.1 has a problem which says something has stopped working almost everytime.
It usally say "NVIDIA Backend has stopped working" twice every 20 seconds. I reinstalled it but gave the same error after a week.
How can I fix it? Is my hard drive failing? Thanks!

Replace your gpu

 

[Dr. Dro]

Hello!! My old computer with Windows 8.1 has a problem which says something has stopped working almost everytime.
It usally say "NVIDIA Backend has stopped working" twice every 20 seconds. I reinstalled it but gave the same error after a week.
How can I fix it? Is my hard drive failing? Thanks!

You haven't given us much to work with here. It is possible that your hard drive is failing, yes. It is unlikely your graphics card is failing, unless you get artifacts and crashes when anything graphics intensive is running. Something to note is, Windows 8.1 is very old and hasn't been supported for a long time. So it's quite possible that there are issues that occur on it, but not on newer operating systems.

Do you have any diagnostic data? Blue screens? Description of when and how apps like GPU-Z crash? Driver versions and hardware being used? Runtimes are updated? Amongst others.

I must add that localized versions of old operating systems are particularly buggy, things will often just act funny or not work at all, I noticed that you are using Windows 8.1 in Turkish, if at all possible, use it in US English or upgrade to Windows 10.

 

[Prowindows62]

You haven't given us much to work with here. It is possible that your hard drive is failing, yes. It is unlikely your graphics card is failing, unless you get artifacts and crashes when anything graphics intensive is running. Something to note is, Windows 8.1 is very old and hasn't been supported for a long time. So it's quite possible that there are issues that occur on it, but not on newer operating systems.

Do you have any diagnostic data? Blue screens? Description of when and how apps like GPU-Z crash? Driver versions and hardware being used? Runtimes are updated? Amongst others.

I must add that localized versions of old operating systems are particularly buggy, things will often just act funny or not work at all, I noticed that you are using Windows 8.1 in Turkish, if at all possible, use it in US English or upgrade to Windows 10.

Runtimes are upgraded, No blue screens, used NVIDIA 341.92 drivers. Also it happens on Windows 10 (Build 14393, 1607) too. Didn't test that on early Win10 (10240 etc.) yet.
Also, I do not want to use some new versions of Windows on this machine because I already have a new machine with Win11.

 

[Dr. Dro]

Runtimes are upgraded, No blue screens, used NVIDIA 341.92 drivers. Also it happens on Windows 10 (Build 14393, 1607) too. Didn't test that on early Win10 (10240 etc.) yet.
Also, I do not want to use some new versions of Windows on this machine because I already have a new machine with Win11.

I'd suggest trying NVCleanstall to get the latest supported by your HW, and trimming unneeded components.

Also do dism /online /cleanup-image /restorehealth as well as sfc /scannow