BSOD and Display Driver Stopped Responding Errors

habibalex

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Jun 5, 2013
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I constantly have problems with my video card while using my computer to browse and play games. Once every couple days I will get a BSOD. I get the Display Driver stopped responding multiple times a day, especially while gaming. In addition the mouse cursor on my 2nd display gets messed becomes garbled often.

I've tried using driversweeper to remove all the old drivers (initially used integrated HD3000 and another nvidia discrete gpu) and reinstalling the drivers for my hd7850. The last crash from BlueScreenView minidump shows that atikmdag.sys, usbehci.sys,USBPORT.sys, and ntoskrnl.exe were running. The previous crash last week shows atikmdag.sys, ks.sys, and ntoskrnl.exe were running. I would appreciate any suggestions.

I have an i5 2500k, intel 320 SSD, 8gb RAM, 420W PSU, and powercolor hd7850 on a gigabyte MB. Nothing is overclocked. Temps don't seem to be an issue either.
 
My guess is the power supply can't keep a clean output to the system. Depending on who made the ps I would bet replacing with a good 500-600 ps would fix your errors. To rule out everything start with the motherboard make sure the bios is updated to last bios file that dropped. Make sure the firmware on the Ssd is up to date and on the intel or amd Sata ports. Run Cpuz check that the mb set your memory speed and timing right. Make sure xmp profile is on
 

habibalex

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I have a corsair 430W bronze rated PSU, i spec'd out my system and it 'should' be fine. Also, many ppl on slickdeals said they were running my card w/ this PSU fine. Is there any way to actually test it is the PSU? i dont wanna just go buy another one for no reason.

BIOS is updated, so is SSD firmware. I don't use the XMP settings for the RAM since they required 1.65V for the 1600 DDR3 speed. At 1333 DDR3 they are fine ( I ran memtest86 for several hours to rule this out).