AMD Display driver stopped responding and has recovered

[animal13]

Hi guys, I am having nightmares with my graphics card. I keep getting the error message saying that the driver stopped working and has recovered, sometimes followed up by BSOD 0x00000EA.

I have searched the internet and tried hundreds of fixes but nothing seems to work. Things I have tried:

Reinstalling windows (Tried both windows 7 and 10)
Reinstalling ALL drivers
Setting up TDR Delay
Running Memtest (no memory issues found)
Running all possible windows scans / virus scans
Tried running the games using the newest AMD driver 17.1.3 and the previous ones (17.1.2 etc.)
Updating my BIOS
Downloading latest windows updated
I cleaned all my parts - nothing is overheating. Also changed my CPU paste

The driver seems to crash only in games. Below is my spec:

i7 920
HD Radeon 7800
8GB Ram
Currently Windows 10

Parts have never been overclocked

Anyone had the same issue or has any ideas how to fix? I am beginning to think that the fault is with my GPU (the issue started happening suddenly, no issues in the past)

 

[box1de1ex]

This used to happen to me when I tried to play GTA V on a graphics card with very poor cooling. It mostly happens because the card overheats. I'm not saying yours is overheating.

But this is definitely a hardware issue and not a software issue that causes the card to crash.

The best solution is to burrow a GPU from someone and see if that works or you could take your GPU out and try testing to see if the intel HD graphics work fine.

By the way do you know the exact model of your GPU? It might be coming to the end of its lifetime.

 

[animal13]

Thanks for your reply. I have looked into this a bit more last night and I have downgraded the GPU driver to the Catalyst 15.11.1 and ran Furmark for roughly 15 minutes. During the test the GPU went up to 86 degrees and screen flicked once for a brief moment (It did not crashed or gave me the message that the driver crashed). I downloaded the MSI Afterburner and bumped up the power and fan speed by a little bit and ran Furmark again for roughly 15 minutes. Max temperature I had was roughly 78 degrees and no screen flicks / crashes. I then tested it in game (WoW for roughly 1 hour) and had no problems and my GPU temp was 60 degrees max. Fingers crossed this has fixed my problems. I will keep you updated

 

[box1de1ex]

Thanks for your reply. I have looked into this a bit more last night and I have downgraded the GPU driver to the Catalyst 15.11.1 and ran Furmark for roughly 15 minutes. During the test the GPU went up to 86 degrees and screen flicked once for a brief moment (It did not crashed or gave me the message that the driver crashed). I downloaded the MSI Afterburner and bumped up the power and fan speed by a little bit and ran Furmark again for roughly 15 minutes. Max temperature I had was roughly 78 degrees and no screen flicks / crashes. I then tested it in game (WoW for roughly 1 hour) and had no problems and my GPU temp was 60 degrees max. Fingers crossed this has fixed my problems. I will keep you updated

Good luck then, but watch out for overheating