"Attempt to reset the display driver and recover from timeout failed" BSoD on Startup

[ApertureFan]

In the last few months I have been seeing minor artifacting or strange ghost-like shadowy duplicates trailing various windows or programs, but the computer ran fine otherwise and I just assumed it was a failing monitor or something, at least until last night. I went to launch a game (one I've played without problems in the past multiple times) before my screen goes blank and a repetitive buzzing noise sounds from my speakers. So I do a hard shutdown, flip the power switch and turn it back on. This time it doesn't even get past the Windows logo before I get a BSoD.

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This happens every time I try to boot normally. So I launch in safe mode, and that seems to work fine. I do some searching and find that this could potentially be a number of problems, but the current patchjob fix that I've found works out is using a program called Device Driver Uninstaller to uninstall all Nvidia drivers. This allows me to boot normally, but is for obvious reasons not a permanent solution.

I installed the latest drivers and tried again, but the problem persisted. I tried updating or rolling back several other things to no avail as well. A system restore point from four days ago also did not solve the issue (though that could potentially be because it said it couldn't restore properly due to an antivirus program, I have yet to try again with antiviruses disabled).

Reading up on other people who have had the problem, they said that the problem persisted even when switching to a different Nvidia card, but swapping to a Radeon they had on hand fixed it. I tried the hotfix [URL="https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/2665946"]found here[/URL] but that didn't work either.

My system is about 7 years old, give or take. I have a Gigabyte motherboard, Intel Pentium CPU G850 2.90GHz processor, 8GB of RAM and an Nvidia GTX 560 card, running on Windows 7 64bit. I don't have the Windows install disc anymore, either. If I could be sure the problem would be fixed with new hardware I'd be willing to upgrade, but as I said I'm unsure of whether or not that will resolve the issue. If anyone has any other solutions or suggestions, I'd appreciate it.