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atikmdag.sys BSOD, happens daily. Help?

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Tajic Kaundur
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Pandemic Legion
#1 - 2015-03-30 05:14:41 UTC
Sorry if this isn't the right forum for this, I don't know where else to put it.

Lemme get my system specs out there to start with:

OS: Win7 64-bit
RAM: 4x4gb G.SKILL Ripjaw
GPU: Sapphire Radeon HD 7850
CPU: Intel i5 3450
Mobo: MSI MS-7758 Z77A-G43


With that out of the way- My computer is crashing more or less daily, if not more often, to a driver file for my GPU known as atikmdag.sys. Sometimes it BSODs, other times my monitors go black, audio cuts out, if my phone is plugged in it disconnects from my computer- basically all outputs lock up until I hard reboot the computer.

This will only happen while playing EVE, and more often than not, on more than one client at once. It doesn't happen while playing other games, and it doesn't happen while not playing any games at all.

The exact crash in question varies, though it's more often than not a REFERENCE_BY_POINTER 0x00000018 error, with an occasional SYSTEM_SERVICE_EXCEPTION 0x0000003B. Here's a screenshot from WhoCrashed if that helps any.

I've updated the drivers in question multiple times, plus every other driver on my system. It's not that. This only started happening within the last month or two, it was perfectly fine before then. I've tested everything else I can think of- none of my hardware is overclocked, I've tried swapping out RAM sticks to see if one specific stick is faulty, my system isn't overheating at all, and basically everything else I can think of seems to be just fine.

What's causing this crash, and how do I fix it? It seems to be EVE related, given that it only crashes while playing EVE- but looking around online, a lot of people have the exact same crashes as I do with no mention of EVE, so I have no idea what the common thread actually is.

Anyone have any ideas?