Please help, what is wrong with my display?

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I get video hardware error and for the first time I had to force a shutdown, previous ones gives a display driver not responding (tried all the latest drivers + fresh windows 7 and 8) then my desktop is back to normal. Please help me I want to know why do I keep getting these errors??! I am adding screenshots to show how my desktop looks like when it happens, I don't know what is wrong with my card or my system, I already did a test on the rest of my gear a while ago when this problem started to happen and everything checked out OK. For the record I am playing games fine with no problems.
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No overclocking in my system except factory OC for my gfx card, as advised from GeForce buddies via forums. I am using The 306.97 driver for my video card as they are a known good stable driver, I am using all the latest bios, drivers and all updates on my system and tested on windows 8 and I get the same results nothing is fixed.

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I was running the following apps while it happen: Win-amp, Firefox v.22, Chrome, u Torrent and Afterburner that latest version and I was adjusting the fan curve, didn't apply anything yet and my system went like in the pics. Its no the first time I have this error more than once now and all I have is the Video Hardware error report in my Action Center, windows activity, maintenance, reliability history report.
 
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haider95

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Looks like a bad overclock. Have you been overclocking, dfox?
 
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Nope only factory OC for the gfx card.
 
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I did and they said nothing out of the ordinary. http://forum-en.msi.com/index.php?topic=170208.0 my thread at MSI. Actually I did try my card in another system but for about an hour and half or maybe two, tested with unigen engine checked and it does not appear to have problems in games, on desktop I let it run a 720p video for about an hour nothing happened.
 
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1) You have a i3 Core, per even Intel this is 'basic' processor, don't try overclocking Video and other things as the i3 can't keep up with it and can cause things to overstack the memory / cores because it can't keep up, then BSOD.
2) the image appears the video card either is overheated or OC bad, you stated you DID OC the GFX, so that would be a issue especially as I noted above. For your system STICK TO FACTORY settings out of the box, no OC at all.
3) your Video Drivers are WAY out of date, as the current was 314.07 (as I look at my NVIDIA Control Panel) and for W8 you need to get the latest so you can install the 8.1 patch/update which would put you at v326 I believe, from Microsoft's own servers (see www.laptopvideo2go.com for latested).
 
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No overclocking in my system except the factory OC for my gfx card, as advised from GeForce buddies via forums. I am using The 306.97 driver for my video card as they are a known good stable driver. Please check my post again these words are between the pics I added.
 
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Yes I read that, and I am informing you NO OC AT ALL, not even from GeForce buddies, and see if this changes thing. The REASON is your i3 is going to choke processing data while your graphics card is pushing/pulling data more than the i3 is able to handle causing WINDOWS to mess up (your pictures) possibly. We are trying to eliminate all potential causes, this is ONE step.

Second, NO 306.97 isn't the ONLY stable drivers, hence why Microsoft AND NVIDIA released other updates SINCE 306.97 was released because other things changed (Flash updates, security hole in Java, Mass Effect 3 patch incompatible with driver, etc.) since 306.97 was released that NVdia/Microsoft didn't have control over.

The CURRENT STABLE DRIVER is 314.07. YOU have Windows 8, this had a NEWER driver released (see the Official Microsoft / Nvidia links from www.laptopvideo2go.com that discuss and detail the reasons) mainly because of the patch/update with 8.1. In anycase, they bundle numerous fixes together into a updated Driver, including other people having screens that mess up like you showed, and not exclusively only for ONE reason (like your screen).

But you can decide to ignore these basic steps to eliminate the factors potentially (until you try them you don't know specifically) are affecting this system. Good luck in any case.
 
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The OC is from MSI with their custom PCB so down clocking will be the option which I don't think it will narrow the problem but it is always a possibility thanks for pointing that out. i3 3220 is issued lately and The Fermi GPU I got was in 2010 so I guess it could handle things well since I don't have any trouble while playing BF3, Crysis 3, TompRaider, Bio shock infinity and more, eliminating possibilities is great hint thank you.

Nvidia was my choice for quite a while I never had problems using the drivers, they have glitches with some drivers so, I did my test on 5 or 6 drivers including 314.07 every one was working great on gaming but did the same error while on desktop, a while I never had problems using the drivers until lately with the new GPU, which leads to other possibility that I am working on it now, the memory temps on the card was overheating and with the help from MSI support I was able to flash my Vbios, under testing for almost 20 hours it quite stable on ideal and under stress.
 
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Well it was a Vbios update that fixed the problem thanks to MSI (in a way it was a bad OC), the fix was for video bios set performance mood and it down clocked the card memory to keep the temps form reaching 100C and lock, when I exit from games the memory temps cools down to idle now due to the fix. I still get the driver display not responding while using Firefox which is the common error while using Nvidia driver 320.18 the previous drivers didn't which led me to try the Nvidia latest driver to check if they worked on a fix. I am back to driver 314.22 as its the last known stable driver but the problem still persists to exist I went for a fresh windows installation and I still get the Video hardware error I don't know where is the problem is my video card or other hardware please help me I am feed up with this error I can't determine the source of this error, last night I got a display driver not responding while I was in game, here are my dump file from the error http://www.mediafire.com/?v6ta3l947hy62k8 please help, thank you
 
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