How to manually force a display driver crash? It's the only solution to my soundproblems

DA_Maz

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Hi everyone

I'm using an HD 7790 and an M-Audio Audiophile 192 PCI soundcard.
Ever since I bought my gfx card and bought windows 7 (fresh install) a few months ago I get really bad (very loud) static noise when my GPU is under load e.g.: gaming. The frequency of this noise seems to be dependent on the framerate my gfx card puts out. I've invested too much time to try and fix this thing without success (asking both manufacturers for help) but here is the thing:

As soon as my display driver crashes and recovers this static noise doesn't occur anymore as long as I don't reboot my PC.
While my gfx driver crashed regularly the past months when surfing the internet and watching flash videos, it suddenly stopped when I tried out newer dirvers. This means I have no chance to use my gfx card alongside with sound as long as the driver doesn't crash by itself.

So how can I crash my display driver manually to solve my soundcard issue for the current session?

(I already tried disable/reenable driver in device manager without succes)
 

menetlaus

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My video driver often crashes on me, my setup is dual monitors (one HDMI that goes through a 7.1 receiver setup to the TV and a DVI direct to the monitor), I often have display driver crashes when turning the tv on/off especially if I break the screensaver/sleep first (touch the mouse) and then turn on the tv.

Don't know if it will help, but can't hurt to un/plug the cables a few times and see if it forces the driver to crash.
 

DA_Maz

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I only have one screen connected via DVI to my graphics-card. Do you mean I should just plug unplug this cable and hope for a crash?

Does anyone else has any ideas how to force a graphic-driver crash?