BSOD While Gaming 0xA0000001 Atikmdag.sys

Hello, I have been having on ongoing issues with atikmdag.sys. This all started with BF3 after playing for 10 minutes, than it happened again, after about 1 hour and 30 minutes in. Then I move onto Borderlands 2 a few days later, and about 2 hours in, same exact BSOD. Then after about 3 hours in game again, I get a black screen this time for about 5 seconds, then game returns to normal. And now today, just installed FarCry3 and BSOD within first 10 minutes. For the last month I have been looking around the web for a fix, installed latest drivers, clean-installed them, installed beta drivers. None of that worked and I could not find a thread that is similar to mine with a fix. The closest thing I found to my problem is this thread:

BSOD atikmdag.sys while playing some* games

Even then it was recommended that he switch to a Nvidia Card. My computer is a custom build, not even 2 months old and I'm quite depressed as it may look like I'm out $200 dollars.

Here are my PC specs:

FX-6300
M5A97 LE R2.0
G SKILL Ripjawz
Rosewill Green Series 630w
Gigabyte 270x Windforce 2GB

I should also point out that this computer does not have overheating problems, as CPUID HWMonitor shows CPU never reaching past 49C and GPU never going past about 69C. I also ran a test (Windows Diagnostic RAM Tester Something) and it showed no errors in my RAM as some forums suggested. At this point I am very desperate to find a fix. I just want to know if this is a hardware issues or still a software issue. Otherwise my best bet is to send the 270x into Gigabyte for repairs.

-Thanks!

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STOP 0xA0000001 appears to be a custom bugcheck coded into ATI drivers. That proves to be the case here.

Code:

fffff880`02f8da78  fffff880`044d22deUnable to load image \SystemRoot\system32\DRIVERS\atikmpag.sys, Win32 error 0n2
*** WARNING: Unable to verify timestamp for atikmpag.sys
*** ERROR: Module load completed but symbols could not be loaded for atikmpag.sys
 atikmpag+0x92de

It is a recent driver, although possibly not the latest.

Code:

2: kd> lmvm atikmpag
start             end                 module name
fffff880`044c9000 fffff880`0456c000   atikmpag T (no symbols)           
    Loaded symbol image file: atikmpag.sys
    Image path: \SystemRoot\system32\DRIVERS\atikmpag.sys
    Image name: atikmpag.sys
    Timestamp:        Fri Apr 18 02:07:07 2014 (53507ABB)
    CheckSum:         000A6939
    ImageSize:        000A3000
    Translations:     0000.04b0 0000.04e4 0409.04b0 0409.04e4

Download the 13.9 driver from here then use AMD Uninstall Utility to remove all traces of your current driver, CCC etc.

Open Windows updates, in the left column click change settings, then in the drop down box select 'Check for updates but let me choose whether to download and install them'. The purpose of this is to keep Windows Updates from automatically installing a driver.

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Reboot and install the 13.9 driver.

   Note

When installing choose 'Advanced' or 'Custom' (whichever option is available, just not Express) and uncheck everything except the video driver.

Ok, neither one includes the actual video driver. I took a picture of the install screen. I apologize if I am missing something obvious. I did try installing it and deselecting what I could but their seems to be no trace of a video driver being installed. I just went back and uninstalled the 2 things it did install.

Strange, I've never seen that issue before. I'll have a look around.

Here you go.