Constant blue screens and TDR

[Stagnoises]

Rather than tack this on to my previous question, I thought I'd make a new topic since the nature of the issue had changed.

I managed to roll the computer back to its factory Vista settings. Since doing this, I can access the desktop.

The bad news:
- I am met with "the display driver stopped responding and has recovered" very often--any time I open anything that requires my graphics card to works. This includes the Nvidia control panel, the driver update executable (especially that--it forced it into low res mode then blue screened).

It's a g50vt-X1 (4 gb Ddr2 ram, Centrino 2, 9800m GS).

I would like to remedy this, but since TDR is now involved, and I have read that TDR can be caused by a multitude of different hardware failures, I thought I'd come back with an update. Sorry if the double post is wrong, but it's a different problem.

Also: when I open GPU-Z, the screen starts to distort, the display driver restarting is more frequent and there are numerous jagged lines on the screen.

 

[Karadjgne]

Re-download the gpu drivers. When it comes to install, take the 'custom' setting, not express. Right after, you get the installation screen, and on the left is a check box option for a clean install. Use it. Chances are good that because of the factory reset, you now have corrupted drivers, or at least conflicting drivers. A clean install should remedy this. If not, get the driver delete from guru3d and follow the nvidia instructions, then do a re-download install.

 

[Stagnoises]

Re-download the gpu drivers. When it comes to install, take the 'custom' setting, not express. Right after, you get the installation screen, and on the left is a check box option for a clean install. Use it. Chances are good that because of the factory reset, you now have corrupted drivers, or at least conflicting drivers. A clean install should remedy this. If not, get the driver delete from guru3d and follow the nvidia instructions, then do a re-download install.

I followed the instructions and the driver successfully installed. However, when I restarted, I got the display driver has stopped responding pop-up. In addition, when I open the battle.net app and attempt to update WoW it crashes immediately. It's gotten to the point that when I open an app and look away for more than 5 seconds, I look back and the screen is off and the computer is restarting.

 

[Stagnoises]

Re-download the gpu drivers. When it comes to install, take the 'custom' setting, not express. Right after, you get the installation screen, and on the left is a check box option for a clean install. Use it. Chances are good that because of the factory reset, you now have corrupted drivers, or at least conflicting drivers. A clean install should remedy this. If not, get the driver delete from guru3d and follow the nvidia instructions, then do a re-download install.

Scratch that progress. It's now just blue screening without ever loading the desktop because "attempt to reset display driver and recover from timeout failed."