PC is Gateway FX6840-01e i7-860, 8GB DDR3 stock. Added a SAPPHIRE Radeon HD 7970 DirectX 11.1 11197-97-90G 3GB 384-Bit, and an intel 520 series 120gb ssd. Two monitors hooked up.
About 4 months ago I started getting some screen flicker, primarily when playing games and watching videos. Decided to just deal with it and keep going, but eventually the whole computer started freezing and crashing, sometimes giving the error:
"THREAD STUCK IN DEVICE DRIVER"
Did some googling, found people recommending updating BIOS and a clean driver/windows install. Well my PC's BIOS hasn't had an update in about 3 years and I can't even find the page on Gateway's site. Tried a clean install of the videocard drivers, no luck. Decided this meant my videocard was dying so I replaced it.
Oh joy.
This did not fix it, and in fact made the computer angry. My primary Windows install flat out died, had to wipe the drive and only got a few things off of it.
New install has been working fine for a few weeks but earlier tonight I got the "THREAD STUCK IN DEVICE DRIVER" crash again. Windows gave me a minidump report (visible here: http://www.filedropper.com/021716-15468-01) but I have no idea how to open it.
This is what the crash looked like:
http://i.imgur.com/9Dy6Jbg.jpghttp://i.imgur.com/LXuMCfm.jpg
I'm running Windows 10 Home (obviously the most updated version because lolmicrosoft), videocard driver 2015.1204.1216.22046.
I am just at a complete loss here, I have no idea what is causing this problem or how to fix it. I intend to replace this machine entirely in 6 months or so but it's just not a possibility right now. Is there anything I can do about this? Happy to provide more information, just not sure what to give.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
About 4 months ago I started getting some screen flicker, primarily when playing games and watching videos. Decided to just deal with it and keep going, but eventually the whole computer started freezing and crashing, sometimes giving the error:
"THREAD STUCK IN DEVICE DRIVER"
Did some googling, found people recommending updating BIOS and a clean driver/windows install. Well my PC's BIOS hasn't had an update in about 3 years and I can't even find the page on Gateway's site. Tried a clean install of the videocard drivers, no luck. Decided this meant my videocard was dying so I replaced it.
Oh joy.
This did not fix it, and in fact made the computer angry. My primary Windows install flat out died, had to wipe the drive and only got a few things off of it.
New install has been working fine for a few weeks but earlier tonight I got the "THREAD STUCK IN DEVICE DRIVER" crash again. Windows gave me a minidump report (visible here: http://www.filedropper.com/021716-15468-01) but I have no idea how to open it.
This is what the crash looked like:
http://i.imgur.com/9Dy6Jbg.jpghttp://i.imgur.com/LXuMCfm.jpg
I'm running Windows 10 Home (obviously the most updated version because lolmicrosoft), videocard driver 2015.1204.1216.22046.
I am just at a complete loss here, I have no idea what is causing this problem or how to fix it. I intend to replace this machine entirely in 6 months or so but it's just not a possibility right now. Is there anything I can do about this? Happy to provide more information, just not sure what to give.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.