Hello,
One week ago I started getting BSODs and "Display Driver stopped responding" messages on a daily basis whenever I try to play a video game... Well I just went on Amazon.com using Google Chrome and got another display driver stopped responding message, so maybe it's not just happening when I try to play games.
The Windows 8 reliability history tells me that the first time I encountered a Video hardware error was about 12 days ago. No errors before, the system was rock solid.
Since then I am getting those messages and BSODs (including self-initiated restart) on a daily basis.
Now, I thought it might be a driver issue rather than a hardware failure (the system was checked by a repair company 4 weeks ago, they told me MB,CPU,RAM and power supply and GPU are all fine, however one of the harddrives was dying so I replaced it and since then the pc was running rock solid.
According to the reliability history I installed two device drivers the day before the first BSOD occured.
1. USB Audio Device. To be exact it was a Blue Yeti Pro Condenser Mic, which wasn't working. So I uninstalled the driver within the device manager, however I fear there might be some traces left.
2. WPD FileSystem Volume Driver, I don't know what that is, but I could imagine this happened when I plugged in an old USB stick of mine.
As you might be able to tell I am rather clueless about what's going on and I appreciate your help!
Thank you for your time,
Cyrano
One week ago I started getting BSODs and "Display Driver stopped responding" messages on a daily basis whenever I try to play a video game... Well I just went on Amazon.com using Google Chrome and got another display driver stopped responding message, so maybe it's not just happening when I try to play games.
The Windows 8 reliability history tells me that the first time I encountered a Video hardware error was about 12 days ago. No errors before, the system was rock solid.
Since then I am getting those messages and BSODs (including self-initiated restart) on a daily basis.
Now, I thought it might be a driver issue rather than a hardware failure (the system was checked by a repair company 4 weeks ago, they told me MB,CPU,RAM and power supply and GPU are all fine, however one of the harddrives was dying so I replaced it and since then the pc was running rock solid.
According to the reliability history I installed two device drivers the day before the first BSOD occured.
1. USB Audio Device. To be exact it was a Blue Yeti Pro Condenser Mic, which wasn't working. So I uninstalled the driver within the device manager, however I fear there might be some traces left.
2. WPD FileSystem Volume Driver, I don't know what that is, but I could imagine this happened when I plugged in an old USB stick of mine.
As you might be able to tell I am rather clueless about what's going on and I appreciate your help!
Thank you for your time,
Cyrano
My Computer
System One
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- OS
- Windows 8 Pro x64
- Computer type
- PC/Desktop
- System Manufacturer/Model
- CADNetwork
- CPU
- Intel Xeon W3680 @ 3.33GHz Westmere-WS 32nm Technology
- Motherboard
- Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. X58A-UD5 (Socket 1366)
- Memory
- 24.0 GB Triple-Channel DDR3 @ 674MHz (9-9-9-24)
- Graphics Card(s)
- 1279MB GeForce GTX 570 (nVidia)
- Browser
- Chrome
- Antivirus
- Windows Defender