Computer Crashing After Driver Installation

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terpthree

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Computer Specs

Motherboard: Gigabyte 990FXA-UD3
Processor: AMD FX-8120
Memory: 8 GB DDR3
GPU: AMD 6870
OS: Windows 7 Professional 64 bit

I have had this computer running fine no issues for over a year now. Today I was updating my video card drivers to the newest beta drivers from AMD. My computer froze in the middle of the installation for over an hour and I ended up restarting it with the power button. Now, every 10-15 minutes the computer will either freeze and I will have to restart, or will just crash and restart on its own.

I have tried restoring the computer to before I installed the driver, no change.
I have tried uninstalling the AMD drivers and using the older one, no change.
I uninstalled the AMD drivers and used the guru3d driver cleaner and then reinstalled, no change.
I had switched my RAM slots a couple days ago, but doubt that is the problem because everything was fine before the driver shut down. I did a ramtest just in case, no problems found.

I would rather not have to reformat. I don't know what damage can be done from stopping a driver installation in the middle, but obviously something happened.
 
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himnextdoor

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I wonder. Could it be that the problem is with CMOS?

Have you tried taking the Video Card out altogether, restarting the machine, letting it error, turning it off, re-inserting the card and re-starting again?

Disable 'Fast POST' in BIOS and see if any details about any problem appear on the screen during the POST.

Maybe you could risk trying the new drivers again or you could just re-install the old ones.

Personally, I would be tempted to have another go but ...

"I remember this one time in the summer of '48. Yes siree! It was a scorcher alright and I dun had cause to be puttin' a sound card into a new build. Yeah, you heard me right, a sound card."

*turns to spit out a large chunk of chewing tobacco*

"Well, he was an 'ornery critter and he dun plum refused to be installed in a manner fittin' of a Christian, 'n all 'n aah could get outa him was a blue screen-a-death no less, 'n aah ain't kiddin' you neether.

"O' course we didn't have nothin' that we coulda called blue back in them days, so we just called it the screen-a-death. And that wuz as fittin' a name as any for it; a SCREEN-A-DEATH..

"Anyhoo, weren't nuttin ahh could do 'bout it. Aah installed it this way 'n that, weren't nuttin no good. That critter almost got the better of me 'n all.

"But aah dun fooled him; aah took the video card out, yup. Took it right outa there I did, 'n that gave me the room aah needed. Aah went one more round with that no-good, low-down God-less critter 'n aah had him.

"Aah got him installed 'n he sat there as meek as a lamb while aah re-installed the video card.

"Yes sir, 'n aah ain't tellin' a word of a lie, as God is mah witness."

You might have the opposite problem to the old timer.

If you could be bothered, you could uninstall the audio driver before you attempt to install the video drivers and then reinstall the audio drivers.

Any help?
 
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