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Graphics Card Error & BSOD
The past two days now I've been constantly getting distorted horizontal lines across my screen that frequently lead to BSOD, as well as an error message about my video card:
Display driver stopped responding and has recovered
Display driver ATI Radeon Family stopped responding and has successfully recovered.
I've tried reinstalling all the catalyst graphics drivers from 9.3 up to the latest 9.11 (using mobilitymodder for anything past 9.3). I also tried uninstalling everything and letting Win7 find the driver for me but still I get the same problems every time a graphics driver is installed. It's only when I run in safe mode or with no graphics driver installed that there's no problem (except for the screen being huge and no areo).
Is this really a driver problem, or is my video card dying? Any help would be GREATLY appreciated. I'm a student and NEED this laptop to work. I took a screen capture of the information (also attached a .txt file with dump info):
http://yfrog.com/7519753134j
I've run the following:
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Memtest86 = no errors (on 7+ passes)
Video Memory Stress Test = no errors (on 7+ passes)
SeaTools
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S.M.A.R.T. Test: no errors
Short Drive Self Test: no errors
Long Drive Self Test: no errors
Short Generic Test: no errors
Long Generic Test: no errors
I'm not sure what to do at this point. Maybe I didn't install/uninstall the drivers correctly? All I know is this problem started randomly, I didn't install any new hardware/software/updates. Please help!