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Random and increasingly frequent BSOD's
Hi
I am running Windows 7 Ultimate, 64 bit on a 3d graphic workstation.
24Gb Ram, 6 cores and a nVidia Quadro 4000 video card.
The system is one year old, purpose-built by professionals.
I have had some flaky graphics-card performance for a long time with the display driver crashing and restarting when switching between Photoshop and 3ds Max, but more recently the system took to bluescreeing randomly.
After a Windows update on the 16th of February the situation became severe, with programs failing to start (particularly Skype for some reason, but also browsers, Image viewers.) after a reboot they would sometimes work for a while again and then crash. Windows explorer itself started crashing for a while, but came back to life after a reboot.
I have upgraded all my drivers, and today I uninstalled all video drivers for the Quadro 4000 card and reverted to the original driver version that windows installed on it's own accord. This is also a nVidia driver but old. This has seemed to make the system much more stable, but I still had a random Bluescreen when hovering the pointer over a normal web-page object a few minutes ago.
I have opened the computer, checked for glitches and generally cleaned it inside - it appears ok, and I have been able to run a window with HD-video parallel with a heavy 3d transformation in 3ds Max, streaming youtube videos in a browser while letting photoshop do a batch filter operation all at the same time with no problem.
There are still BSOD's at random times, like a flash from a clear blue sky.
I have included a zip with the health reports and dumps indicated in the forum rules section (It's all in this zip), and as I do not know how to interpret these myself I would be very grateful if someone with better knowledge in this regard would be able to offer his or her perspective on what I might do to stabilize my system!
Any info appreciated!
Best wishes,
Henrik