Bluescreen caused by GPU drivers?

[-Sylvan]

So my computer was running fine, I had no errors or anything up until yesterday.
The only thing I installed yesterday was an update to my graphics card drivers and display drivers etc through Catalyst Control Center.

It popped up on my screen and told me new updated were available. I followed the prompts and installed a bunch of drivers related to my GPU.
Later that day I had my first Bluescreen. Since then I have had about 3 Bluescreens.

I was talking to a friend and he suggested that it may have something to do with CCC not removing the old drivers first while going through it's automatic update thing.

Why the hell wouldn't it? Seems kind of stupid...

Anyway, any help with my problem would be much appreciated. 😀

 

[wa1]

Yes, most of Bluescreen (BSOD) problem are caused by BAD driver, the latest version is not always the best, sometime the older driver can be much stable.

So, my suggest is to remove your latest driver using driver sweeper:
http://www.guru3d.com/category/driversweeper/

and re-install your most work driver (before updating).

 

[-Sylvan]

Ugh...

Attention - Guru3D Driver Sweeper has been discontinued as such you will not find any download links here any longer.

hmmmm

 

[-Sylvan]

Can someone give me a step by step guide on how to remove the drivers and then reinstall?

 

[wa1]

Gosh... I'm so sorry, the last time I checked it's still have the links...
Well, the last thing you want to try is re-install windows (clean install).

 

[Tamz_msc]

Try booting into safe mode and then remove the drivers.

 

[-Sylvan]

A complete reinstall? Ugh

Safe mode is the alternative to a windows 7 reinstall?

 

[-Sylvan]

I have downloaded Driver Sweeper, from CNET.

I will remove everything to do with my graphics card.

 

[-Sylvan]

It would be the AMD - Display right? 😱

 

[Tamz_msc]

Yes.

 

[-Sylvan]

Yes.

and all the files under it?

there seems to be a lot of system 32 files lol...