- Oct 28, 2010
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Okay for the last few weeks my computer will ocassionally shutdown and restart (sometimes right after startup sometimes after a few minutes-hours) It all started after my AMD Sapphire 6570 Graphics card auto updated its driver software. The newer version was causing the screen resolution errors so I uninstalled them and reinstalled the orignal CD drivers and turned off auto update. Ever since then the shutdown cycles started so I have to assume its has something to do with this. I've been trying all kinds of ways to fix it such as uninstalls then running driver cleaner software to remove any traces of the drivers and reinstalling but the problems still occur. I also tried using driver scanners to look for problems and noticed my previous graphics card a Radeon 4350 would show up in the outdated drivers list. I first installed the new 6570 back in late June and hadn't had any issues. the 4350 wasn't showing up in the device manager so I looke online and found out how to use a CMD prompt to reveal old drivers that were lingering SET DEVMGR_SHOW_NONPRESENT_DEVICES=1 and uninstalled the 4350 drivers. Could that have been the probelm or are there others issues I may be having? The BSOD errors have usually been one of the following: IRQL not less or EQUAL, Memory Managment, Reference by Pointer. I also tried running windows memory diagnositc but that didn't find anything.
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