Random BSODS at most games

[Sweetsaintg]

Hello,
i have been visiting your forums a long time now,trying to figure out whats causing my bsods,but it seems that i cant figure it out myself.
I have read the instructions on posting a bsod thread but the Sf program doesnt work for me.
I have run bluescreenview though and i uploaded a txt file "explaining" each of my crashes.I had a fresh format yesterday and then i started playing a game, again(bsod).
Note*:Bsods happened even before the format.
I have my specs on my profile.
If you need anything more from me please ask.
Thanks in advance.

 

[z3r010]

From that text file the main causes are bellow, try to find updated drivers for the ATI card (try to install without the catalyst software) and the Ralink card.

I'd also suggest swapping Avast for Microsoft security essentials.

netr28ux.sys - Ralink RT2870 series USB802.11n Wireless Adapter Driver (you may have a different manufacturer)
aswSP.SYS - avast!
atikmdag.sys - ATI Video driver

 

[Sweetsaintg]

ok so i have uninstalled avast, i also renew my ati driver(also run driver sweeper),as of the wireless adapter,i use an ethernet cable so should i just disable it ?
Thanks for quick responce.

 

[z3r010]

Yeah if it's not used disabling it would be a good idea.

 

[Sweetsaintg]

Ok i did that as well,i will try running the game for now and see how it goes.

 

[Sweetsaintg]

So 15minutes into the game yet another bsod
Attached.
i am guessing this still has to do with the network adapter but idont see the reason.

 

[z3r010]

Go to C:\Windows\Minidump\ and zip up the dump files and attach them to the thread so we can take a real look at them.

 

[Sweetsaintg]

how come i cant zip my dmp files? It says couldnt open file for reading.

 

[z3r010]

Try copying them to your desktop first.

 

[Sweetsaintg]

Ok so that was a stupid question...
So i uploaded them.I have found out that my ethernet controllers drivers were not the last ones so i updated them as well.

 

[Sweetsaintg]

Soo i tried running the game again but yet another bsod
Attached.

 

[z3r010]

That dump is blaming your ATI driver again.

Probably caused by : atikmpag.sys ( atikmpag+7f09 )

Try completely uninstalling the graphics driver then rebooting and installing the driver again but without the catalyst control center.

 

[Sweetsaintg]

i thought of that too but how to install without ccc?should i look into the subfolders of the package i downloaded from asus ?

 

[z3r010]

You could download the latest driver from the ATI site then when installing select custom install and you should get the option to not install ccc from there.

The ATI is down for maintenance atm though.

 

[Sweetsaintg]

hmmm so i uninstall my graphics driver but as soon as i reboot into os windows device manager auto updates its drivers.. also got to notify me before download and install but didnt seem to work.
The driver its on though doesnt install ccc.So what should i do ?

 

[z3r010]

Just give it a try, atm that's all you can do.

 

[Sweetsaintg]

ok so did that again, i downloaded from amd this time, but i can only install it with catalyst control manager,the option is greyed out , i cant uncheck it.Another thing i saw someone say run verifier so i did.. and i had no crashes.
What does that mean?

Edit: I have been running the game for 1 and a half hour and just crashed onto desktop once(no bsod),which is very good compared to what i had , i blaim the game for this crash because i hear it has random crashes or freezes.Will update in 2-3 hours if everything goes well.
Edit2:I have been playing 3 hours straight, no bsdos or anything,this is so nice,i would like to keep the thread not solved for the time,cuz its only been some hours.
Thanks

 

[Sweetsaintg]

Ok so these past weeks i didnt really have much time for gaming so i couldnt post any real results...
Today i started playing and yet again another BSOD ..

 

[Arc]

Your latest dump shows a repeated failure of ATI display driver.

[COLOR=Red]fffff880`02de02e8  fffff880`02e1ad1e[/COLOR][COLOR=Blue]Unable to load image \SystemRoot\system32\DRIVERS\atikmpag.sys, Win32 error 0n2[/COLOR]
*** WARNING: Unable to verify timestamp for atikmpag.sys
*** ERROR: Module load completed but symbols could not be loaded for atikmpag.sys
 atikmpag+0x4d1e
============================================================
[COLOR=Red]fffff880`02de03a8  fffff880`04af5b56[/COLOR][COLOR=Blue]Unable to load image \SystemRoot\system32\DRIVERS\atikmdag.sys, Win32 error 0n2[/COLOR]
*** WARNING: Unable to verify timestamp for atikmdag.sys
*** ERROR: Module load completed but symbols could not be loaded for atikmdag.sys
 atikmdag+0x4db56

Can you tell us, was the situation the same when you were using the April's version of display driver?
If not, First uninstall the current one using Driver fusion, and then reinstall that one step older one.

To avoid CCC, after downloading follow the method: http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/97061-driver-install-device-manager.html.
Do it under display adapter, and while searching for the driver, point it to the location where the downloaded driver is situated.

Let us know the result.

 

[Sweetsaintg]

ok so i did everything u said, and i started playing,10 min or so into the game, the game freezed,didnt bringout a blue screen ,didnt create a dump file,just the game freezed and music freezed as well, i could hear the music going, gr gr gr gr gr gr.Note that this has happened before,it was either a blue screen or game hangs like this.

Edit:And yes the same was happening with the previous drivers as well.