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Multiple (Video driver related?) bluescreens, primarily 116 errors
So, 2 days ago I downloaded and installed a new game via steam, (devilian, not that it probably matters), and upon first starting it up, bluescreen out of nowhere. I haven't had a bluescreen with this laptop in a long time (A dell inspiron n5110 15r), and so this was pretty strange. I believe the first crash was a 116 crash, timeout exception. I booted up my computer again, started looking into the crash, and bluescreened again with nothing but firefox open. Since then, I've reinstalled all of my video drivers, ran a chkdsk, windows update, and pretty much anything else I could think of.
As of right now, I can't boot windows with a driver installed for my GPU. If I uninstall the driver, I can boot into the beautiful 800x600 stock windows driver setup, and all seems well. No issues whatsoever in safemode either. The moment I try to install a driver, it won't even get to the login screen for windows (it crashes immediately after the windows startup graphic). It seems to be slow loading drivers and such when it boots like that too, although that might not have any bearing on anything. I've tried cleaning my registry with CCleaner, and a variety of other minor maintenance things people should probably do all the time. It doesn't seem like a hardware fault - my gpu has only ever run on the cool side of "warm", and everything seems to function fine without any drivers installed (even doing tasks that are relatively resource intensive),
This has been further complicated by the fact that my laptop has 2 gpus, the AMD Radeon HD 7450m AND an Intel HD graphics 3000. I've tried updating the drivers for both, although when I updated drivers for the Intel GPU it said it failed to load the driver (some sort of registry error? I've since used CCleaner and been unable to reproduce this, but I don't know). I've been chipping away at this non-stop since it happened, and frankly it's a tangled mess trying to pinpoint the exact cause of the issue. I'd really appreciate any help that can be offered, even if it's just helping to narrow down the scope of what I'm looking for, or related incidents with similar setups.
If there's any more information I can provide, just let me know. I'm a little frustrated right now, and liable to have forgotten a lot of small details.