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atikmdag.sys BSOD several times recently
So I got this BSOD on my Windows 10 machine a few days ago. It happened while I was watching a youtube video. The screen just went black(while the sound was still playing) and then a blue screen came with a big sad face -> : (
It gave me a: SYSTEM EXCEPTION NOT HANDLED
What failed: atikmdag.sys
So it eventually restarted the the computer and started repairing itself and eventually said it had to restore itself to an earlier state, and this took like hours, and at a point the computer said that it failed to restore and I just had to press a 'shut down' button. So I booted up the PC again and for some reason I was able to boot up win 10 again at what seemed to be an earlier restored state(which is really weird because the computer said that it failed to restore earlier).
So this happened several times over and over and I tried to find the root of the cause and it seemed to be some sort of graphics driver issue. I have a AMD 8750M graphics card and I've checked the latest graphics driver and it was up to date(amd-catalyst-15.7.1 which is from july 2015). But for some reason it kept nagging me about updating my driver to some Radeon Crimson driver ever since I installed win 10 early this year, and when I tried updating it just said that its recommended that I use my current driver(REALLY WEIRD!!).
Anyway, I eventually follow a recommendation of going into safe mode and then uninstalling my graphics driver and installing the Redeon Crimson one. But windows told me that it wasn't compatible for some reason so I reverted back to the "old" 15.7.1 driver, and it just kept giving me the blue stuff and "restoring" to an earlier state.
So, luckily I have win 8.1 installed on another partition and have been using it for the past 2 days without trouble. So I hardly think this is a hardware issue. This win10 BSOD issue came to me after I had an automatic update of win10 just a few days before, so that might have something to do with it. I installed windows 10 back in January this year and it has been working fine up until this point.
Today was the last time I tried booting up win10, it just BSOD' while loading startup software. So I couldn't even do log collecting. I don't really know what to do now.