Windows File Protection & Old Drivers

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imported_Imp

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I switched out my old Sapphire 9600 Pro Advantage to a BFG 7600gt about 3 weeks ago. Everything was perfect without any BSODs until a few days ago when I suddenly got my first STOP 0x000000c2 error (BSOD) while opening WMP. Just yesterday, after a cold boot, I got an 000000c2 error right after the welcome screen (no lock-up, just an error report and if I wanted to send an error report, everyone kept going). After a bit of googling, I found out that it may be Ram or driver related. I suspected the new Nvidia drivers, but just scanned my HDD and Memtested a few hours anyways with no errors or corrupted stuff.

Well, after looking over my Eventviewer logs, other than the two 000000c2 errors, I found out that 3 ATI drivers got restored by windows file protection. All of them were restored within 30 seconds of each other when I probably used the ATI driver clean utility. Since I eliminated the Ram with testing and the fact that they've been working for months, I'm suspecting that these old drivers are causing issues. However, these errors are VERY few and far between which isn't too much of a problem right now. These are the files that got restored:

ati3d1ag.dll
atrace.dll <--Small update - apparently the POS ATI uninstaller took this Windows file with it.
ati2mtag.sys

So, is it possible that these old drivers are the source if the errors I've been getting? Or do the newest Nvidia drivers(certified ones) not like me? If they are, any idea how I can get rid of them before they T1000 on me?

Thanks a lot.

 
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imported_Imp

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Thanks, but I actually have 2 ATI Catalyst uninstallers in my recycling bin already:). Thinking back now, I think I might know why they didn't work; I'm a genius and and used the Uninstaller in regular Windows with drivers I wanted to uninstall running... I don't have much time today so I'll give it another shot tomorrow. One thing I'm concerned about though, do I have to reinstall my Nvidia drivers if I'm trying to remove old and supposedly 'unused' ATI drivers?

Screw it, I'll just reinstall all my Video drivers and try out Driver Cleaner. If I don't update within a day, guess who screwed his system:).
 
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imported_Imp

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Grrrrrrrr... So far so good after a bit more retardness with me not installing Driver Cleaner before going into safemode. Wow did it clean out a lot of stuff from windows/system file, driver cache and registry. But sucks that I had to reactivate windows again by phone, think I got put through to the same guy as last time. ~Just wanted to reinstall drivers, geez. Anyways, hope it's ok now, and I REALLY hope I won't have to do this again when I put in a new sound card soon. Thanks for the help and nudge in the right directiong:).
 
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