Hi, I am sorry for posting on such an old thread but I have found out what my own problem was and fixed it now after a couple months of frantically attempting to figure it out. I am posting here in case this helps anyone else out. POWER.... Thats it, I was using an older 500Watt PSU that was a salvage from an old P4 email server I used to run out of my living room years back. Turns out the actual sustained rating for the 12volt rail(s) was only 360 watts and with my machine being packed to the gills with hard drives and overclocked to kingdom come there simply was not enough amps to drive the system. I replaced the PSU with a more modern 800Watt and not only was dolphin smoothed out properly but also my strange once every two week BSOD was also fixed. No more video driver crashes... It all just works now. This is a trap for young players and even us old time PC builders if we just arent paying enough attention. So if ur having strange behavior on anything, especially when hitting the CPU/GPU hard as hell like dolphin does or transferring files, just do a quick calculation and add up the wattage requirements or your whole system and make SURE you have a power supply that can handle it. I figure it out when I upgraded my video card, was a gift from my brother in law, and it draws almost 80Watts more than my old card. The whole machine went on the fritz, started crashing a BSODing like crazy and I knew the card was confirmed working in another machine. So I took out my trusty calculator and BAM, not even close to enough to run the whole machine at peak draw. Either way, I thought this would be interesting and helpful to anyone experiencing similar strange behavior like I was.
Keep up the good work everybody!
Keep up the good work everybody!