Bsod death problem + IRQ question Win 7 64 bit

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AMD Phenom 9850 Quad core 2.5ghz
5770 Vapor-x
4gb of G.skill ram
OCZ MODXstream-pro 700w+
Windows 7 Home Premium 64bit

Everything is at stock i do not overclock!

Hey, iv been having this ongoing problem with my pc and i cant work out what the problem is, it is seriously driveing me nuts! I get random crashes in games telling me that ATIKMPAG.SYS is the cause in my bsod. Aperently this is a TDR event or something and can be caused by a number of things hardware related in my pc like CPU and RAM settings etc. Now i have tested everything :( its so tireing and draining. I have tested my ram overnight with memtest with 9 passes and no errors (that took 9 hours). I have ran prime 95 blended test with no errors at all for hours, iv even ran prime 96 with furmark running at the same time! and still nothing! So im at a total loss.

Now here is a weird thing, iv tried number of windows 7 64 bit installs and i always get the same results, constant crashing in games after 40mins of playtime maybe 2-3 hours or so if im lucky.

I Tried windows 7 32 bit and the problem didnt happen for 2 months! and then i got it again once, the bsod happend, comp restarted and then i carried on like normal again :confused:

So because that crash happend once in 32 bit again i thought id try 64 bit agaoin and well the bsod's just happend again like clockwork.

So now im back to searching the net again. There are so many dead threads on simaller issues to this problem its crazy.

Last night i came across something about IRQ conflicts in windows 7 and how this could cause system instabilty if it happens also aperently this is a thing of the past as with new OS's IRQ shareing is ok. But what about negative number IRQ's is this normal? take a look at this screen shot....



You see my 5770 and Nvidea Ethernet are both set as Negative IRQ'S is that normal? the 5770 is marked at -2 and the Ethernet is -3 also if you check the right system infomation window they are both marked as as 10 digit number at the bottom of this list, why is that? Every other PCI is set bellow 200 but the 5770 and the Ethernet are different.
 
Sounds like a crappy graphics card driver tbh - are you using the most up to date one from AMD or using the default driver from Windows?
 
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