BSOD Caused By Graphic Drivers -- Seems to occur at random times

I hope it helps. Yes, diagnosing a BSOD can be a real pain sometimes most of the time. It can involve a lot of testing and trying different things. Many times the debugger (on your computer) will catch the victim and not the cause.

Del

Yea, the AMD forums are full of people posting about it. The 'Fishbowl' test, I think just tests HTML5. It dosent seem very stressful to me. I ran it with 2000 fish, just to see what would happen.

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Download this and run it. Set it on the preset extreme. Heaven Benchmark | Unigine: real-time 3D engine (game, simulation, visualization and VR) the set up should look like this
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Then press run then when it starts moving, press the Benchmark in the top left, but be sure to watch your temps. They will get pretty high

Del

Th good part is you didn't crash and your temps stayed good.

Del

If you want to see if it will BSOD. Enable all Non Microsoft drivers

   Warning

Be sure to create a Systm Restore point before proceeding further System Restore Point - Create

Driver Verifier - Enable and Disable
Run Driver Verifier for 24 hours or the occurrence of the next crash, whichever is earlier.

   Information

What is Driver Verifier:
It puts stress on the drivers, and tries to make the faulty driver crash the computer. It is designed this way, to attempt to trap the offending driver.

What you will notice:
It will tend to make the computer rather slow and sluggish because the drivers are being stressed.

   Warning

Before enabling DV, make sure you have created a system restore point before enabling Driver Verifier. make a System Restore Point manually before enabling DV.

   Tip

• If you fail to get on the Desktop because of DV, Boot into Advanced Boot Options > Safe mode. Disable DV there. Now boot normally again, and try following the instruction of enabling DV again.
• If you cannot boot in Safe mode, do a System Restore to a point you made earlier.

Let us know the results, with the subsequent crash dumps, if any.

Del

Or until you get a BSOD or two. The idea is to stress the drivers to get the weakest ones to crash and hopefully catch them. It will run a little sluggish because extra stress is being put on the drivers.

Del