BSOD ntoskrnl.exe then atikmdag.sys errors. Please help! - wyles

@1nonly: I have to concur with Greg on the Clean Reinstall. I fat figured something in the past few days and only noticed the repercusions today. Price of researchng solutions on your only working machine, I guess. So I spent a few hours trying to fix it, but eventually said "screw it" - I could be half way tnrough a fresh install.

The tutorial is very well written - if you follow it step by step, you'll have a much better running system.

I was going to suggest that you go through your system and clean out the old applications, run some utilities to clean up any left over bits, but that's a lot of work. More work than backing up your data and doing a clean install.

It's your call, and it depends on your threshold for pain. Take the piecemeal approach and possibly BSOD in a week or a month from now, or go all in and get a stable system.

There's a lot of stuff on your machine that has the potential to bite you sometime in the future (questionable optimizers, many active torrents, not to mention outdated sotware/drivers).

You have some of the best folks giving you suggestions. So I'll bow out.

gregrocker said:

Work through these Troubleshooting Steps for Windows 7 particularly establishing a Clean Boot with only AV starting with Win7, checking the logs and System Resources for clues, running all Important and Optional Windows Updates after enabling Automatically deliver drivers via Windows Update (Step 3).

I would also consider getting a perfect install following these same steps for
Clean Reinstall - Factory OEM Windows 7.
Set up yourself as passworded Administrator then other family members as Standard Users so that they cannot download/install from questionable sites or change settings without your permission.