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BSOD with error 0x00000116 accompanied by display driver crashes
For the past few days I have been plagued by frequent display driver crashes, These crashes usually recover immediately, but sometimes they cause complete system crashes with BSODs (although I cannot see the BSODs because the screen goes to black). Crashes happen for seemingly no reason. Sometimes it takes hours, sometime seconds. Sometimes it crashes on the login screen. Nothing in particular makes it crash more or less.
I have attempted to diagnose and/or fix the issue with a friend who works in tech support, but we haven't come up with anything so far. Last resort is obviously Windows 7 Upgrade to replace all windows files and then complete re-install after that, but obviously I wish to avoid this.
I have scanned the machine with multiple virus/spyware/malware scans with nothing coming up. I've changed the system's TDR Delay to 10 seconds via regedit. I've turned off all services and start-up programs. I've re-installed, clean re-installed, and updated my graphics driver to the newest version. Nothing works. Various explorations through out the Event Viewer hasn't lead to anything we can see might be causing the issue.
The strangest thing is that I have even had the screen crash to black in safe-mode twice today. Safe mode was the only way the machine is usable at this point, but apparently even that isn't safe.