Tried removing the gfx card same thing is happening any ideas? RAM is running at suggested voltages 1.5v nothing has been o/c and I also set the default settings for my gfx cards, am going to try and set up iGPU to see if that does anything will try running with just the one stick of RAM and see if that has an effect.

I also just noticed after running 3DMARK11 it stated that I was running of the Intel HD Graphics 3000 (i7) is this were my problem lies? is the iGPU or Lucid drivers I installed interfering with the ATI drivers somehow?

Any other suggestions would be a great help.

Hi thanks for the reply,
I downloaded the latest CCC drivers and installed them during install I got an BSOD so restarted uninstalled CCC then tried to reinstall the latest CCC and all drivers that comes with it finished the install, downloaded latest Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 SP1 redistributable patch and found by running 3DMark11 it gives a good indication wether or not the problem is still there as it has been BSOD or just freezing on a certain part of the test, so ran 3DMARK11 and it is still freezing, but it does not seem to be doing it now in a few games I have run (MW3,Skyrim) which is atleast an improvement.
Like you said and reading the information on the ATI website this does seem to be a problem with the GPU or its drivers which is good news for me as next week I am picking up an GTX590 I am having far too much trouble with these cards.
Should I still flash the BIOS to the latest anyways?

OK since the last set f problems I decided to dump my xfire setup and purchased a new GTX590 which has brought upon its own set of new problems:mad:

I uninstalled all the old drivers then used driver sweeper to clean out any remaining foldersm, also uninstalling them from device manager.

Next I installed the latest version of drivers from the NVIDIA site only to find that I am stuck in safe mode resolutions for my screen I cant access the NVIDIA control panel as it is saying " You are not currently using a display attached to an Nvidia GPU ". In device manager it states that
"Windows has stopped this device because it has reported problems. (Code 43) ".

I have now uninstalled and reinstalled about 6 different versions of drivers from NVIDIA including the latest BETA drivers which all have the same issue??????
I have also gone to the MSI site and downloaded their latest recommended drivers for the GTX590 which are the only ones that seem to work as in it fixes the screen to the proper resolution and lets me into the NVIDIA control panel yet after about 10-15 mins the screen will go black or the computer will just freeze:mad::mad:
I have noticed a few others out there experiencing the same problem but no fixes as of yet any ideas??

Do yourself a favor, disable and uninstall that lucid virtu crap, go to uefi and in advanced tab there is a 'system agent configuration' then go "initiate iGPU" change that to disabled. Btw it would be better if you had updated uefi before installing windows and intel rst drivers.