Graphics driver crash and recovery

Trindalas

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Jun 26, 2017
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I have been somewhat recently(started less than a month ago, but I am not sure when it started as it has been getting progressively worse) having a problem with my display driver crashing and recovering whenever I play, as far as i can tell, any game. Runescape? Crash. World of diving? Crash. Crysis? Crash. Sometimes it plays for as little as 20 seconds before a crash (especially Runescape lately), sometimes it plays for an hour or so. Last night my computer restarted itself. Possibly started after my old graphics card died, and then i had been using onboard graphics until i got a cheap replacement card until i could afford a better one. The issue with that however is that I have this crash with more than one graphics card (boh a Geforce GTX 650 and a Radeon RXD460). I no longer believe it is the card that is causing the issue (i cleanly installed drivers after uninstalling old ones each time). I have bought a new PSU, thnking it was that (plus I wanted a semi-modular and bigger one anyway), but that didnt help either. I ran a syscheck and a memory test, and it only found a couple corrupt .dlls that it couldnt fix, and i tried replacing those but couldnt get it to stop finding those, despite following a tutorial to unregister and reregister the good dll. So I "upgraded" to windows 10, which still has not fixed the issue (even after updating drivers and such). The memory passed the memtest as well. I checked my Intel Quad Core with their tool for thier website, and that didnt come up with any issues. I also replaced the thermal paste on my CPU (it was kind of old) as well as some of the broken fans, and heat is not an issue. I have also run scans for viruses and malwaye (first tried spybot search and destro and avast, then uninstalled those which i had for years and got Bitdefender, which also found no issues. I also tried reseating everything.
My current setup is: Asus p5g41c-m motherboard with 8gb Dual-channel ddr3 @533MHz ram (dont remember the brand off the top of my head, 2 4gb sticks), Intel core 2 Quad Q6000 @2.40GHz, 40096MB ATI Radeon RX 460, 186GB Samsung SP2004c ATA harddrive (yes that is an old one), 2 TB Western Digital WDC WD20WARS-00MVWB0 ATA harddrive, EVGA 750 GQ power supply (brand new like a week ago), and Windows 10 64-bit. I am currently at a loss as to what to do anymore. I have tried more things than I have listed, I just can't remember all the things I have tried right now. Please help, I really want to get back to my gaming.
 
Some questions

1. did you do a full driver removal and reinstall? (not just windows built in uninstaller).
Heres a tool for it: http://www.guru3d.com/files-details/display-driver-uninstaller-download.html

2. did you have any crashing with the onboard graphics?

3. did you do a clean install of windows 10 after these issues started? Corruption may be the issue. It is a difficult process trying to repair system files. in my opinion its easier to back up and reinstall than learn how to repair it. This also rules out software related problems. This prompts the next question which should be done before a clean install.

4. have you run a test on the drive(s) your operating system and/or games are installed on?
heres a tool for that: http://downloads.wdc.com/windlg/WinDlg_v1_31.zip
 

Trindalas

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Jun 26, 2017
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I did indeed use the tool to uninstall. I do not remember if i had the issues with onboard or not, that was a long time ago. I would prefer not to do a complete reinstall if it is possible to avoid that, it takes a long time to reinstall everything and i do not have a big enough backup storage to keep all my files on sadly, i have a lot of videos and pics and music on my secondary 2tb drive, but no extra drive outside of that other than small usb drives. I would prefer that be a last resort, which may or may not be required... As for the games install drive, i have some on both drives, the OS being on the smaller old drive though. I pretty much just use the small drive for the system files and a small number of system related programs and a very small number of games.
 

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