Vista - NVIDIA drivers causing BSOD's

Hello,

About a month ago, I started experiencing a lot of BSOD's. It started when I updated my graphics card to be able to play Age of Conan. The game started to crash frequently and BSOD's began to pop up. I thought it was just the game so I deleted it but, unfortunately, all my games had occasional BSOD's. However lately, my computer started to crash much more frequently and, after any crash, my computer would become unable to restart. I have to wait about 30 mins before restarting my pc to avoid getting errors. My graphics card is: NVIDIA geforce 8800GT. Altough I'm pretty sure it's my graphics card/driver that is causing the troubles, because the crashes -not the ones during rebooting- occur when there are graphics involved but, I could be wrong!
The strange thing is, I always get another BSOD. The code varies from 0x0000008E, 0x000000FE, to -I don't remember the code- problems with USB drivers. I've tried reinstalling the NVIDIA display driver but no luck. Now I do think I might be doing something wrong at the whole Reinstalling process. These are the steps I take:
1. go to control panel
2. uninstall the NVIDIA display driver using the add/remove program button
(I don't uninstall every driver).
3. restart in safe mode.
4. use driver sweeper to get rid of all the remains of the driver.
5. restart the pc.
6. install the latest drivers.
If anyone knows what I did wrong, or what else could be the cause of my problem, please give me some advice .
Thank you!

Hi Beast521

Click on this link HWmonitor and download and run HWmonitor. Then take a screenshot and post it here so we can see all the values.

Thanks for answering so fast!
Here it is.

are those idle temps? your gpu core and your cpu are very hot (not too hot by any means) but considering they are idle temperatures id hate to think what temps are getting up to when your ingame.

why is your cpu voltage set so high????? if you have applied any kind of overclock remember its is a very bad idea to let your bios manage the voltages.

leave HW monitor running and play a geme for half an hour then post another screnie of your HW monitor please nthen we can see what your voltages and temps are doing on load

Ive attached a snapshot of my rig exactlky the same cpu and gpu so you can see what i mean about your temps , my cpu is overclocked as per my system specs

Yup, they're idle. I'll play a game, but I hope I will be able to play for that long .

look at my attachement ive added to my post ubove just as a comparrison

Ooow, I never thought it would be the temperatures .
Well, it makes kind of sense. Once I play a game, the temperature would increase a lot and then crash. That's why I couldn't get my pc running again.
Okay, going to start a game now and see how high the temperature goes.
Though my pc is in a pretty open area. Should I replace my pc or is it my fan that causes the high temperature?

Thats exactly it and why i asked you to post a screenshot of your temps.

If possible play the game in windowed mode and run HWmonitor so while your playing you can keep an eye on the temps. If gpu temps near 100 or cpu nears 60 then you have major cooling issues with your pc.

If possible come back here and post a screenshot of your temps and tell us what pc case you have.

he wont have to play it windowed hw monitor displays the max temp as well as lowest and current , he can just post up the screenie after some gaming , im more interested in his voltages

and you still aint told me why your cpu voltage is so high?

and one more point , the 8800gt has a very skewed fan profile its idle speed by default is 30% and this doesnt increase until your gpu reaches 80 degrees!! God knows why NVidia saw fit to do it like that , i have temperature triggered custom fan profiles set through riva tuner eg it starts at 40% then at 50 degrees goes up to 50% 60 degrees 60% etc , if your having real trpouble with yuor gpu temps i can let you know how to use riva tuner and how to set up custom fan profiles

If he runs it fullscreen then when he gets a BSOD he wont be able to access HWmonitor to see the temps.

If you get a BSOD again or the temps are high then switch of your pc and open the side panel. Then start up the pc but dont touch anything and look and see if all your fans are spinning especially the graphics card one then switch of your pc.

While the side panel is off clean out all the dust from your pc case and route the cables away as neatly as possible then put back on your side panel and start your pc. Then run HWmonitor again and check your temps.