Why does the display driver keep crashing?

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So I've been dealing with this problem for a little while now. My PC will work fine, no problems, for a few days/week or so and then out of no where my display driver keeps crashing when I launch 3D games.

If I uninstall and reinstall the drivers it works fine until it starts happening again. My graphics card, I would assume, is perfectly fine as I never get any errors or artifacting.

When I uninstall the drivers I also use AMD's utility.

I've uninstalled MSI Afterburner as well as the OSD portion of it.

Still happens. So any one know what the deal is here? I've recently reinstalled Windows 7 and this was happening before the reinstall as well so I don't think it's a Windows issue...seems to be just the drivers. I've tried the WQHL drivers, older drivers, beta drivers, etc and they all, at some point, start doing this.

Any help would be appreciated, thanks!
 
If you have the card overclocked or bios changes, I would revert them back to stock and see if the problem continues.
 
No BIOS change or overclock at this point (uninstalled MSI Afterburner). Just uninstalled and reinstalled the drivers again...lets see how this goes...
 
OK well that fixed it...for the time being...see what I mean? Starts messing up...uninstall...reinstall...works fine...starts messing up...uninstall...etc...
 
That's pretty odd behavior with a single-card situation. I'd start seeing if maybe your CPU OC isn't as stable as it might appear as well.
 
Well I know the CPU overclock is stable...I've long tested it with Prime95 and the likes.
 
Anyone else have any ideas? System is running fine right now...but it's only a matter of time...
 
Well my CPU has been overclocked like this for well over a year and I don't have any other issues ever with anything ever except this driver thing so I HIGHLY doubt that the driver issue is CPU related. If it were I should be experiencing it more frequently, no?

Either way, moving away from the CPU being the issue what else could be the problem?
 
Quicksilver_ said:
Downgrade your display drivers.
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If you read my OP you'd see that I already stated that I've done this.

jmilcher said:
Exactly what I was thinking. I would go with a Furmark extreme stress test for 30+ minutes before I call a OC on a gpu stable.
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I have...Furmark for an hour at 1200/1700 @ 1.225v...zero issues. GPU and CPU are completely stable.

metalspider said:
check your ram,memtest86.
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I've already done that.

Anything else? It's seeming like this might end up being just one of those "unknown" type things.

I can say that WHEN the driver starts acting up it STAYS that way until I uninstall/reinstall. Like, even if I shut down my PC, restart it, set BIOS to default, etc...it's almost as if the display driver becomes corrupt and simply ceases to work. There is NOTHING that fixes the issue once it pops up other than simply starting fresh.

To me this is extremely odd. It's one thing if the driver crashes for some random reason...but for it to mess up and stay mess up is bizarre. Especially considering that once I do uninstall/reinstall my PC works PERFECTLY with NO problems what so ever. Games work perfectly, everything works perfectly...until this happens.
 
have you set everything stock in the bios for CPU and ram and then tried to replicate the problem?

I know you said your overclock has been stable for a long time so you are dismissing that as the issue, but if that's what you are doing, that's not doing troubleshooting due diligence.

Sometimes overclock stability degrades over time, I have had processors run great for a long time then random issues show up and I have to lower the clocks, or raise voltages.

I would bet dollars to donuts your issue is related to a chipset or cpu issue that cropped up over time.
 
Well as I've said even if running stock speeds on everything the problem is still there...so that's why I dismiss the overclock...not because I'm being ignorant/arrogant.
 
OK well the problem has popped up again.

You know, I really love AMD but shit like this is SERIOUSLY making me consider going Nvidia. There is NO reason for this to happen. No overclock, different driver versions, etc...no cause I can find other than shitty software.
 
I have this problem if I oc too high. I just keep lowering clocks until it disappears. Make sure you have Intel's Z77 chipset drivers installed. Try AMD's driver removal utility and reinstall with the latest non-beta driver. It's possible your video card is an unstable, defective POS and you need to RMA it.
 
No, as I said earlier in the thread my card works fine...no problem. This seems to be a random occurrence.

My card works fine...drivers work fine...next thing I know the drivers keep failing with every 3D game. Uninstall drivers then reinstall drivers then everything works perfectly normal until this happens AGAIN a month or so later.

So it's not the video card or the overclock (if there is one). It seems to be purely software...now the problem is WHY is the software/driver doing this?
 
You need a base line. Put everything at stock for a while, even possibly underclock. TDR can be caused by cpu, memory, or gpu.
 
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