m17x Ungodly crashes

Hey guys, though I am sure I could find the answer to this if I dug around on here, I figured it would probably be faster if i just asked.

My Specs are
Windows 7 Home Premium-64
Core 2 quad Q9000 @2.00 Ghz
6g ram
A05 bios
SLI 280m
260.99

think thats it.

Problem: I was having all the gnarly crashes you all know about,black screens with just a pointer and music still playing, flashing grey and blue screen with skipping music, you name it, ive crashed it.

had dell replace everything excluding ram and my hard drive
so thats, Motherboard, Gfx Cards, Fans, Heat Sync, even the screen, and I just put in the new CPU today.

Had wow running for near 2 hours before I had my first crash, which was one of those slow crashes, the ones where you almost feel like you can save it from crashing...
I've edited my registry and added the QWORD, TdrDelay for the value of 16 to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE>SYSTEM> Control>GraphicDriver

and before I put the new CPU in it seemed to help a very slight bit.

So I know Batboy was able to help a lot of people out there get there machines running, and either him or someone who has had this happen to them might have a suggestion for me.
Thanks guys and Happy New Year!

 

Also, I have downloaded the Modified NV 197.52 driver for M17xR1 Batboy released, waiting to try until I get some feedback

 

First make sure that you are on latest BIOS, VBIOS, and Drivers.

can you upload the latest file in C:\Windows\Livekernalreports\WATCHDOG?

I used to have similar crashes when playing almost any games,

the reason was VIDEO_TDR_TIMEOUT_DETECTED 117

I searched alot for that error (its not related to ATI Crossfire only)

in my case it was the Master Graphics card that is faulty, after replacing it everything was fine.

try to run WoW with one card (if that solved the problem than your SLI cable, or the slave card might be faulty)

 

Well man I've had the gfx cards replaced twice, so I don't think thats the problem. I tried Batboys modified driver and things seem to be running great now.