Help Needed (bsod, artifacts, but not your usual kind)

Afran · 23 Oct 2014 at 16:10

About a month ago I first experienced this artifacting, which as of this post today has only ever occured twice, both times when booting up my PC. At this time I was getting quite a few BSOD's, it was always "0xA0000001" mentioning atikmdag.sys, this was fixed by changing my graphics driver from 14.4 to 14.7 beta, for over three weeks I've not had a BSOD, until yesterday, though it was a different error, still mentioning atikmdag.sys; "0X0000003B" being a SYSTEM_SERVICE_EXCEPTION much like before. This BSOD happened when just on desktop/browsing web.

Now is where it seems to get weird, though. When I booted up my PC today I had the exact same artifacting again on my screen, being the second time for this to happen, on a different driver. There were no graphical glitches during the windows loading screen and it all went messed up as soon as I loaded to desktop essentially, which lead me to believe it was again down to a driver. That was... until turning my monitor off and on again fixed it? What? I'm confused. Now I'm not even sure if the BSOD relates to this. Seems very odd that it was fine during loading then glitches at desktop.

Any help would be great to finally resolve this

Specs in spoiler below

Afran

I'm running everything at stock:

Intel Core i5-4670K 3.40GHz
Gigabyte Z87-HD3 Intel Z87 (Socket 1150)
Seasonic G series 550w '80 Plus Gold' PSU
Kingston HyperX Genesis Grey 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3
MSI Radeon R9 280X Gaming Edition OC 3072MB

zakblood · 23 Oct 2014 at 16:52

h88p://www.sevenforums.com/bsod-help-support/336910-bsod-random-situations-caused-atikmdag-sys.html

use the tool and check again for what else gets flagged, good luck, helped out a few in the past tbh

zakblood · 23 Oct 2014 at 16:54

as it says, check all that are flagged, you may have to either upgrade a certain flagged driver that won't work together or down grade one, but either way one will work and no more bsod for you

Afran · 23 Oct 2014 at 17:07

Thanks for your reply zakblood.

For clarification, the artifacting has only happened from a cold boot and only once reaching desktop. Never had a bsod at the same time so not sure if related. Suppose both could be driver though, even though happens on two seperate drivers... o0

Not sure what to do with what you linked? I ran the tool and it zipped a bunch of text files are you saying post em over on that forum?

All in all obviously it's the artifacting that most concerning but hopefully both would be somehow resolved with driver changes somewhere

Afran · 25 Oct 2014 at 22:39

Shameless bump!

AthlonXP1800 · 25 Oct 2014 at 23:20

The BSOD error code is caused by either faulty 280X graphic card or driver.

The artifacting was caused by 280X GPU. Try install MSI Live Update 6 to see if there are latest BIOS for your graphic card.

If no new BIOS then try downclock GPU core clock and increase voltage a bit in MSI Afterburner and see if issue go away.

If everything fail then try remove 280X card and enabled to use Intel HD Graphics 4600 then see what happen.

This is now 2nd time in 2 weeks after other guy reported same issue with Gigabyte 280X.

Darcey · 26 Oct 2014 at 12:19

RMA it, just make sure you tell OCUK to test at your screen resolution, they didn't with me and ended up sending it back twice. In the end I got a different product back. Frozo 2 instead of 3.