AMD drivers keep crashing,any advice?

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So my drivers keep crashing for whatever reason mainly while playing games. Yesterday i was playing Watch Dogs and at one point (after several hours of gameplay) my pc's screen flickered ,then went into bluescreen. After which it couldnt load my HDD (altho i did get it to load after i shat the pc down and turned it on again).
Today i decided to try Fallout NV. Since ive been playing it ive had like 5 driver crashes. I tried reading around google, i got some advice to delete and reinstall my drivers,which i did. Deleted em,removed em with "Display Driver Uninstaller" and then installed the v14.4 drivers from AMD.
But even then it crashed after pretty much the same time it usually does.

My build is
MB: Asrock FM2A55M-VG3+
CPU:AMD Athlon X4 760k 3.4Ghz
GPU: Gigabyte Radeon HD 7750 (7770 on box) 1GB DDR5
PSU: Tt Smart SE 530w 87%
I'm using Win7 64bit
 
Have you checked your GPU or other system temps to be sure it isn't a thermal issue? Are the fans or fan on the graphics card working? Have you checked to see if the GPU heatsink is full of dust and junk. Same with CPU and PSU? Any of those components overheating can cause those issues. So can hard drive problems. Run Seatools for windows so you can rule out hard drive problems. You don't mention your PSU so what is the brand and model of that.

Could be that a cheap PSU has reached the end of it's useful life and is experiencing thermal fatigue after a period of increased demand during gameplay. Run Memtest86 on the memory modules individually to rule out it being an issue with the RAM. Don't run it with multiple modules installed as you may get false positive results. Lastly, if the card is overclocked at all it may not be stable at current speeds. It might also be a failure of the GPU, RAM or other component of the card itself.
 

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Well as of now,ive tested the temperatures on my PC while running Prime95 and also tried it with Heaven Unigine while having the Speed Fan program opened. Temps looked fine,nothing too big. Also did a Smart Check on the HDD and it passed. But i can't do the fix right now on the HDD,cuz its late and itll take long,its a 1TB HDD

BTW,which one do i download?
Image for creating bootable CD (ISO format)
or
Image for creating bootable USB Drive
 
I would not rely on the SMART test in any fashion. You need to run the short DST and the long generic. Those are the tests that will actually tell you something. The short DST test does not take long and is the one that usually tells you right off the bat if something is wrong. If it fails this test you THEN want to do the long generic test.

After doing those if the hard drive is ok you can run memtest. I would use the bootable USB version if you have a blank external usb or thumb drive you can use for the purpose of testing. The drive cannot have anything else on it. Otherwise, you can use the bootable CD. Either one will work so long as you are sure to boot from that drive or disc using the boot options menu for your device.

You also still have not provided the brand and model number for your power supply unit or PSU. This is important as the PSU is the most important component in your system, supplying power to ALL other components and is the only component that when it fails or begins to fail can affect every single other hardware component or even take them all out with it. I hear at least five times a day, "My power supply is brand new so it can't be that". Wrong. A $500.00 power supply could fail right out of the box, but more importantly, cheap or poorly build units have a very high failure rate especially when used with demanding components.
 

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its a Tt Smart SE 530w 87%
the Short DST says it passed.

Also the card is factory OCed

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Could u tell me which options im suppose to choose? its pretty confusing and i checked all of em
 
Don't worry about the OC if it's factory.

Download the following driver but don't install it until after you perform the following removal procedures.
http://download.gigabyte.us/FileList/Driver/vga_driver_amd_vista(win7)_8.982.exe

Try removing the drivers using the steps at the following link. Using driver removal utilities may not be effective. Don't skip steps.
http://www.tomshardware.com/faq/id-2284749/completely-uninstall-amd-nvidia-gpu-drivers.html

Is there a reason why you say the card is a 7750 but says 7770 on the box? I don't understand that part.
 

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A friend told me the card is suppose to be 7750,even tho its a 7770. I don't really understand that either,but ill still download the 7770 ones
http://www.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=4132&dl=1#ov This is the card

UPDATE: Okay,i deleted completely everything,restarted and currently am installing the new drivers. I'll check on them in a few hours when im back home
OH! and btw,what does this driver do exactly? i installed it ,but it didnt fix my resolution. And usually it fixes it after i put the gpu drivers
 
You need to determine whether you have the right card or not. Don't just get jumpy and start installing this or that or deciding not to follow instructions. That's what got you into the mess to begin with. I can't help you if you just decide to do whatever "somebody" tells you to do rather than the specific instructions for your card. You can try to right click on the desktop since you've already installed the card and see if you can adjust to the correct resolution by selecting display properties or screen resolution, whichever option shows up there, and making the adjustments in there to the resolution. If the resolution was not correct from the start, it may be because you didn't install the right drivers, the ones I gave you the link to according to what card YOU said you had. Why would any card different from what's on the box come to you? Did your friend have a 7750 and maybe pull a quick change on you to nab YOUR 7770? I've never, in 25 years of buying computer parts, seen a part number that was different from the box packaging or had been checked next to the correct model if more than one was listed on the box.
 

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geez...dont get so worked up. Maybe he ment it was a 7750 but OCed or something. I dont know. He has pretty much half of the same parts i got.
Ok so i installed the right drivers this time. Their site was abit confusing since they gave me 4 versions of my video card and each was almost the same. My resolution got fixed now. I downloaded the 7770
 
SO does it seem ok now? Sorry about that but it's gets frustrating when you try to help people, a LOT of people here, and they just do what they want anyhow and then complain the problem isn't fixed despite not following directions. I don't necessarily mean you, a lot of times this goes on and on and on in the thread and they just keep doing their own thing but keep coming back wanting to know why it isn't working. It isn't working because you're not doing what you're being instructed to do. So anyhow, have you run any games on it now to see if the issue has resolved. Hopefully it has or we'll need to go look at a few other things.
 

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We'll see tomorrow. Altho i haven't had any driver crashes or any problems today. Im gonna continue fallout tomorrow and see if i got any problems. If so ill come back and we could try something else. If not,then problem solved. Still tho, thanks for the help and the patience
 


The irony is that you are one of those "somebody's"! :lol:
 


Actually, what I meant was that when you don't stay on a fixed path, at least long enough to determine it's the wrong direction or is not working, and jump around from this to that, you don't end up eliminating anything as the cause and may more than likely create new problems as well. And that generally happens when you've got somebody on the left and somebody on the right telling your different things. I'm not saying I'm always right, hell, I haven't seen anybody here, moderators included, that is always right, but make a choice one way or the other. Bouncing back and forth just creates confusion and rarely solves anything.
 


The funny thing is, I had a couple of AMD fans get really upset that I wouldn't RMA my 7790 (as that would have introduced a variable) in several driver problem threads a while back! :lol:
 

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:pfff: god...sometimes i wonder why i decided to upgrade my pc and not just buy a console...oh ya,controllers.
Okay so i turned on the PC this morning and noticed it's abit laggy,also had 2 driver crashes : the catalyst control center and another one altho i wasn't sure what it exactly was. Also the flash player was bitching. Then i restarted it and only the catalyst crashed this time.

Quick update: was scrolling through fb and the flash player crashed. And skype refuses to open up

Well the gigabyte drivers were utter horseshit. My sound is gone and Fallout crashes at the launcher now with these new ones. I'm just gonna delete everything and download from the AMD page. I know they crash,but these kinds of continued crashes happened so far only with Fallout NV and Watch Dogs.
I'm sorry for wasting ur time on this,but im thankful for trying. If it starts crashing again at some point,ill look around again for ways to solve it.