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Intermittent driver crashes help?

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RagingShadow07

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My 7970s have been giving me issues lately. None of the 13.2 beta drivers work without crashing after about ten minutes. I rolled back to the 13.1 drivers and everything was fine for a while, but now Battlefield 3 is giving me that issue. I've never ran into this issue before, so I'm not sure where to start as far as diagnosing what's wrong. I'd appreciate any advice!
 
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There may be video driver conflict due to some remnants of previous video drivers not being completely removed.

Do a thorough uninstall and removal of present video drivers.

Then (re)install drivers.
 
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RagingShadow07

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Is there a preferred method of doing a thorough uninstall of drivers? I've never really ran into an issue like this before, so I've never really needed to research how to properly uninstall stuff.
 
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Uninstalling drivers via the Control Panel or via the application doesn't always remove ALL files. So extra work is required to ensure all relevant files are deleted.

Try following the uninstallation procedure here.
 
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