Display drivers constantly crashing, frequent x116 BSOD

[Guest Nasric]

I recently purchased a MSi Radeon R7 265, OC edition. It was working fine until Saturday, when I was playing a game and then the screen went black and gave me a BSOD, then proceeded to automatically restart. Now, whenever I attempt to launch a large majority of my programs and applications, including any and all games, my screen freezes and then goes completely black, then returns to normal with a notification that my display drivers have stopped responding and restarted successfully. Sometimes it'll even give me a BSOD with the x116 error, attempt to reset the display driver and recover from timeout failed. It cites atikmpag.sys as the offending file.

 

 

I honestly don't think it's the graphics card, because something very similar to this happened to my old card, which prompted me to buy this one. The only difference is that my old card went black as soon as it passed the Windows logo, and it didn't return. This one, on the other hand, goes black on starting most applications. The only applications I haven't had issues with is the pre-installed, basic verison of Internet Explorer that comes after you install Windows, and the Steam gaming client, which I can open but can't play any games with. Could something else cause this, or am I just really unlucky?

 

 

Would the fact that my card is pre-overclocked cause an issue?

 

 

I have tried installing the latest drivers, the beta drivers, previous drivers, the manufacturer drivers and the drivers provided to me on the CD by MSi, all of which are returning same or similar results. I've also tried to wipe everything and re-install Windows twice, with no luck. I'm honestly at a loss of what to do now, and I'm holding out for a software or hardware fix, as I'd hate to need to RMA this card.

 

 

Computer specs: http://speccy.piriform.com/results/xNnyrighySK1FLCDiex6QHc

 

Latest dumpfile: https://onedrive.live.com/redir?resid=44C4FBC21DC89804!330&authkey=!AJFUxRq04G2q9e8&ithint=file%2c.zip

 

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