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Display drivers constantly crashing, frequent BSOD - 0x00000116
I recently purchased an MSi Radeon R7 265, OC Edition. It was working flawlessly (playing Wildstar, Battlefield 3 and League of Legends) up until Saturday, when I was in the middle of playing Wildstar and my screen went black and gave me a BSOD, then automatically restarted my computer. Ever since that point, whenever I attempt to open basically any application, whether it be Firefox, Chrome or any sort of game, my screen will freeze up and go black, then come back on with a notification that my AMD display drivers stopped responding and were recovered successfully. I can't even access the Catalyst Control Center. Occasionally, if I don't leave the offending program in time, my computer will eventually give me BSOD 0x00000116, "an attempt to reset the display driver and recover from a timeout failed." This only occurs when the drivers are installed/enabled.
I've tried several different graphics drivers, including the ones on the CD, ones available to me on the MSi manufacturer's website, latest stable and beta drivers from AMD, and even previous versions of drivers. All with the same or similar effect. I've reinstalled fresh copies of Windows twice now, to no effect. It seems like the only programs that I CAN use without incident are the pre-installed copy of Internet Explorer that comes with Windows, and Steam -- but only Steam, no games.