The computer can damage itself if it crashes?

[ MOTIVATION TIME ]

Sometimes i have to change the version of my drivers to an older one to open a game that can't be opened in new versions of the intel driver, when i change drivers the computer crashes so i have to reload the computer. The drivers change anyways but i dont know if the crashes damage my computer.

[Jaunitta 🌸]

Crashes means windows has stop your computer from running because the gpu you are using is not the right one.
Intel drivers? These are usualy on the motherboard drivers so dont change them rather change to the dedicated gpu and dont use onboard.
You should post this hardware and operating systems not in Steam related discussions.
Repost here
https://steamcommunity.com/discussions/forum/11/

[Pierce Dalton]

Damage to hardware? It's possible but very rare.

[Haruspex]

Probably not.

[Satoru]

Note that 'crashing' is sort of like saying 'is having a headache bad'

The answer is it can be everything from 'totally nothing' to 'stage 4 brain cancer you have 2 weeks to live'

Crashing is just the symptom, you need to understand what the cause is.

If its just the game crashing, then that's more an issue with the game which is fine

If its the OS or some core OS module crashing the system, well your OS is in a bad state and that's not a good thing

If its your hardware such as a power supply, motherboard, high temperatures, etc well that's VERY bad

Aka you need to look at the underlying cause, not the symptom.

[Start_Running]

Crashes can cause data corruption. Thats the biggest risk from crashing. Now the thing that causes crashing that can cause or be a symptom of something wrong with your data or hardware.

[76561198407601200]

Originally posted by  MOTIVATION TIME :

Sometimes i have to change the version of my drivers to an older one to open a game that can't be opened in new versions of the intel driver, when i change drivers the computer crashes so i have to reload the computer. The drivers change anyways but i dont know if the crashes damage my computer.

Could be going to the older drivers is causing a conflict with what ever the newer drivers may have had. When going back to old drivers i'd recommend using ddu to completely remove the new drivers and then install the old ones.

[ MOTIVATION TIME ]

Originally posted by Jaunitta 🌸:

Crashes means windows has stop your computer from running because the gpu you are using is not the right one.
Intel drivers? These are usualy on the motherboard drivers so dont change them rather change to the dedicated gpu and dont use onboard.
You should post this hardware and operating systems not in Steam related discussions.
Repost here
https://steamcommunity.com/discussions/forum/11/

Oh sorry, i didn't realise that

[ MOTIVATION TIME ]

Originally posted by The Living Tribunal:

Originally posted by  MOTIVATION TIME :

Sometimes i have to change the version of my drivers to an older one to open a game that can't be opened in new versions of the intel driver, when i change drivers the computer crashes so i have to reload the computer. The drivers change anyways but i dont know if the crashes damage my computer.

Could be going to the older drivers is causing a conflict with what ever the newer drivers may have had. When going back to old drivers i'd recommend using ddu to completely remove the new drivers and then install the old ones.

What is a ddu?

[⚜Z3⚜ eris in cybersamsara]

Originally posted by  MOTIVATION TIME :

Originally posted by The Living Tribunal:

Could be going to the older drivers is causing a conflict with what ever the newer drivers may have had. When going back to old drivers i'd recommend using ddu to completely remove the new drivers and then install the old ones.

What is a ddu?

Display Driver Uninstaller, its a program to remove GPU Drivers.