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Digger
Ok, so during my gaming sessions,i sometimes(very often in the last couple of weeks) get the message that my display drivers have stopped responding and recovered or i get a blue screen. Also,yesterday something else happened , the screen just froze and it stayed like that until i restarted the pc manually. So,these are the tests i've done so far, memtest came out clean , i waited for 3 passes....I've been monitoring my temps and my graphics card is not over 53-55 when gaming.My cpu on the other hand i've been a little worried about, idle temp for the cores is 30 something to forty something... I've done a cpu stress test but i got worried when i saw the temperature going to 68 and i didnt let it go on.
I did a gpu stress test and everytime i get the same things as i do while gaming. Either there's a ''graphics driver stopped responding'' message , a blue screen, or a frozen screen. So,here are my system specs:
OS: Windows 7 service pack 1 / 64 bit
cpu:intel i5-3570
gpu: amd radeon 7850 (gigabyte)
mobo: gigabyte p75-d3
psu: cooler master 600w
The blue screen always has a 0xa0000001 code. I've been using bsod viewer and it seems to be blaming the atikmdag.sys driver.
Also,i forgot to add,i've installed and reinstalled 6-7 different amd drivers for my card and nothing has helped.

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