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driver update issues

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I've been running the 13.9 drivers since I built this PC (specs in sig). With all the new betas coming out, I wanted to try them, however, I've been having an issue with all of them upon install. Everytime I try to do a clean install by uninstalling the old drivers using AMD's catalyst uninstaller, and then installing the new drivers, the system blue screens at the Windows login screen and I have to go back in and revert to the 13.9 drivers.

With the beta v9.2 that just came out, I tried again and same issue. So today I installed the driver over my existing 13.9. This seemed to work finally...until I tried to run GPU-Z. I tried twice and it bluescreened both times. After rebooting (and not trying to run GPU-Z again) I was able to run 3dmark11 ( score: http://www.3dmark.com/3dm11/7454313 ) and even play a little bit of BF4 single player campaign without issue. So I tried GPU-Z again and it worked. It's been working fine now for a couple hours with no instability.

Was the GPU-Z issue just a fluke? Why wouldn't the drivers work when trying to install them clean? Should I do anything else to make sure the system is fully stable? Thanks... :)
 
Perhaps certain low-level video card settings had carried over to the new drivers, causing the issue? To my knowledge, the official uninstallers, be it AMD or NVIDIA, don't do a thorough job at removing all traces of driver binaries and settings.

Did the BSODs show any error codes?
 
I should have taken a pic of the BSOD, but didn't. I did notice it said something about graphics drivers though. I guess if it does it again, I'll reproduce the issue and grab a pic so that I can look up the error code.
 
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