Ok, so my coolant res. in my computer started leaking the other day. So I figured while I had the computer in the garage I'd break out the blowgun and de-dust it as well. All good so far, eliminated the res, so I'm just using my secondary res now. Went to the hardware store to get some new fittings to plumb everything up.
Well I had my second Visiontek Radeon HD 3870X2 card that I'm working out a trade on, so I figured I'd toss it in to make sure it works properly. This is where the problems start. Get the computer back in and all hooked up, and it starts freezing randomly and BSOD'ing. Upon restart, it checks and says the graphics card is the problem. So I uninstal/reinstall the drivers and Catalyst Suite multiple times to no avail.
I figure somethings wrong with that card, so I put the original one back in. Same problems
I've uninstalled/reinatlled drivers multiple times, nothing works. Sometimes it'll work for an hour before it freezes, sometimes 5-10 seconds after windows loads it'll freeze.
Now I'm running a tri-boot setup, where XP Home, Vista Ultimate and W7 are all installed, so I tried booting into Vista...won't even boot up. Try in in XP, get the same random freezing errors. Now I'm lost for ideas.
However, if I start W7 in safe mode, it works just fine, no errors at all. So I'm assuming its a driver-related issue. I also downloaded the latest drivers from ATi's website to be sure.
On the plus side, my coolant leak it fixed now lol