Blue screens during gaming(Dota 2) and Display Driver has stopped responding

The Conjurer

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Ok,i've been having this problem for a long time now,dont know what to do anymore.While playing Dota 2 i get blue screens or the message Display driver has stopped responding(and the game minimizes without the option of maximizing again).And,this happens at completely random times.
System specs:
Operating System: Windows 7 Professional 64-bit
Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-3570 CPU @ 3.40GHz (4 CPUs), ~3.8GHz
Memory: 8192MB RAM
Graphics:AMD HD 7850
motherboard: gigabyte p75-d3
The code i get with the bsod is: 0xa0000001
And it blames these 2 drivers:
atikmdag.sys
dxgmms1.sys
I've tried everything,in the past month i've uninstalled and reinstalled my display drivers 5 times,tried different versions,nothing fixed it.When i reinstall the drivers,it seems as though the problem goes away for a day or two,then it continues.And,when it happens,it starts happening more frequently as time goes on.Also,once i tried using driver sweeper after uninstalling the amd drivers but that didnt work either.Tried the amd clean utillity and that deleted my usb drivers.
A friend has done stress tests with the graphics card,it worked fine,i've done memtest,checked cpu and gpu temps,all were fine.
Also,i dont know if that's important but when i get the blue screens usually there's a loud buzzing noise.
 
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I've been having a similar problem with atikmdag.sys blue screens on a system I've recently upgraded to Win 7 Pro 64-bit. And I've done quite a lot of trawling forums looking for answers, with no positive results. Probably the easiest solution is to uninstall the video card and all the associated drivers and install a different card from nVidia.
However, I think I've managed to resolve the issue (so far, so good) by doing the following:

1. Download the latest driver package from AMD. Even the latest beta will do. Also download AMD's utility for deleting all AMD graphics files, should any not be removed the conventional way.
Extract the files from the driver package (.exe) with 7zip or something like that to a folder on your desktop...

pvandck

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I've been having a similar problem with atikmdag.sys blue screens on a system I've recently upgraded to Win 7 Pro 64-bit. And I've done quite a lot of trawling forums looking for answers, with no positive results. Probably the easiest solution is to uninstall the video card and all the associated drivers and install a different card from nVidia.
However, I think I've managed to resolve the issue (so far, so good) by doing the following:

1. Download the latest driver package from AMD. Even the latest beta will do. Also download AMD's utility for deleting all AMD graphics files, should any not be removed the conventional way.
Extract the files from the driver package (.exe) with 7zip or something like that to a folder on your desktop (for convenience).

2. Uninstall all AMD/ATI graphics software and drivers, including the Catalyst install helper, in the usual way via the Control Panel / Programs & Features.

3. Restart the computer and run the AMD utility to find and delete any remnants.

4. Restart in Safe.

5. Go to Control Panel / Device Manager and double click on Display adapters. You should find a VGA adapter. Double click on that, the select the Driver tab.

6. Update driver by locating the driver folder in the driver package you extracted to a folder on your desktop.
The drivers will be installed without any of the other software, like Catalyst or the install helper.

7. Restart you computer.


Hope this works for you.
 
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