PC Peripherals Windows 7 BSOD due to GPU?

Yrus

Disciple
Config of one of my systems:-

AMD Athlon 3000+

2GB DDR RAM 4MHz

Seagate 1TB SATA (7200.12)

Geforce 7300GT 512MB

USB K/B + Mouse

15" CRT

VIP 400W SMPS

Win 7 without SP1

1. I have checked my complete HDD using Seatools/HD Sentinal/HDD Regenerator and there are no bad sectors or any problems.

2. I have run Memtest86+ 3 times and there are no errors, CPU temp is never beyond 50C and GPU is always within 60C even under full load.

3. Win XP works fine with latest Forceware WHQL drivers, but with Win 7 I have random BSODs and system freezes up.

4. Using onboard graphics in Win 7, the system is stable, and I'm using the same Win 7 on 4 other system without any problems.

5. I get BSOD in Win 7 even before installing the 7300GT drivers(Win 7 already has installed some WDDM drivers), when I remove my GPU BSODs stop.

PS - My system was working fine before all this, I originally had only Win 7 and Forceware 266 and things were fine,

Problems arose when I installed XP on C: and Win 7 on D:, BSODs started on 7 but not XP, assuming dual booting to be the culprit I removed all partitions and put just 7 but the above mentioned problems arose.

Previous to this I used Acronis Disk Director to resize the extended and logical partitions, and also moved and deleted files on NTFS partitions from Knoppix(Before completely removing all partitions), I thought this caused some HDD problem, but HDD passes all tests after this.

When I was dual-booting XP and 7 I had Forceware 271 on 7 and 266 on XP, has this caused some GPU problem?

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It looks like its a GPU problem, your poor GFX is dying now after 4yrs. Try cleaning the surface and apply fresh Thermal Paste also try & put in ram cooling blocks on GPU memory.

Just to confirm, when you boot, run a GPU stress test in OCCT. If either OCCT crashes or you get a BSOD then it's confirmed that ur GPU is dying.
 
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