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BSOD When using new MSI Nvidia 460 GTX
Ok, so here is the issue in detail. I just got a graphics card for my birthday a few weeks ago. I got an MSI Nvidia 460 GTX M2D1GD5/OC2 (Factory overclocked) card. I was upgrading from an Nvidia 7600 GT 256MB card. I did a clean install of all of the drivers for my graphics card, removed all of them, rebooted into safe mode, installed the new drivers, rebooted, and moved on. Not too long after getting up and running, I had a black screen then the message saying the driver stopped responding but that it recovered. Not long after that, I ended up with a blue screen crash. I thought, ok, weird, maybe it's the drivers. I then went to the Nvidia website and got the newest drivers (301.42) and did another clean install. That seemed to do the trick. But a couple days later, another blue screen appeared with a different message. I tried every driver that I could find that claimed to be stable. At this point, I decided I would check to see if somehow my computer was at fault. I switched back to my old graphics card and it runs like a dream so far. No blue screens, no hang ups, no sign of any trouble. It appears to be something with the driver as far as I can tell, but I'm no computer expert. I'm handy with a computer, but this part is a bit beyond me. At one point, I went so far as to completely format my HDD and re-install windows to see if maybe there was some sort of old driver left behind. Didn't solve it. The blue screens come at random and I get a full out array of different crashes. So far I've had:
1) PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA
2) UNEXPECTED_KERNEL_MODE_TRAP
3) SYSTEM_SERVICE_EXCEPTION
4) BCC: 0x00000101
5) SYSTEM_THREAD_EXCEPTION_NOT_HANDLED
6) BCC: 0x00000101
I attached a zip file containing the dump files from the crashes.