Posted August 10, 2013
If your motherboard has an integrated graphics card, you could plug your monitor into it and unplug your graphic card, to check if it is a problem of this card.
klaattu
Registered: May 2011
From Spain
sanscript
Ltd. DeepSeeker
Registered: Jul 2011
From Norway
Posted August 10, 2013
BSOD (Blue Screen of Death) crashes are commonly caused by 3 things;
1: Bad drivers (manufacturer's code) and usually incorrectly blames on the operating system.
2: Faulty OS/HDD (i.e. corrupted)
3: Faulty CPU/Memory/Mama board/PSU (Power Supply)
(Usually in that order)
As the second post above mentions about rootkit/malware/adware/viruses/worms - usually it is not enough to do a system cleaning. But since your HDD are a "tad old", I suggest getting a new one, reinstall, and copy over personal files / games you might bring over. You should always have an external backup disk.
Going through event viewer usually gives more headache then solutions, that`s my experience anyway.
If that doesn`t work, then you have to to go trough a separate check list, just to eliminate what hardware that work / doesn`t work
1: Bad drivers (manufacturer's code) and usually incorrectly blames on the operating system.
2: Faulty OS/HDD (i.e. corrupted)
3: Faulty CPU/Memory/Mama board/PSU (Power Supply)
(Usually in that order)
As the second post above mentions about rootkit/malware/adware/viruses/worms - usually it is not enough to do a system cleaning. But since your HDD are a "tad old", I suggest getting a new one, reinstall, and copy over personal files / games you might bring over. You should always have an external backup disk.
Going through event viewer usually gives more headache then solutions, that`s my experience anyway.
If that doesn`t work, then you have to to go trough a separate check list, just to eliminate what hardware that work / doesn`t work
Post edited August 10, 2013 by sanscript
KneeTheCap
Nasse-Setä
Registered: Feb 2010
From Finland
Posted August 10, 2013
Also did a rootkit scan, showed up nothing.
Maybe I need to run that memtest or something.
klaattu
Registered: May 2011
From Spain
Posted August 10, 2013
Win 7 has integrated a RAM test.
You should find it in the search menu looking for mem. It should be called something like Diagnose your computer's memory problems.
It will reboot and test your RAM
You should find it in the search menu looking for mem. It should be called something like Diagnose your computer's memory problems.
It will reboot and test your RAM
KneeTheCap
Nasse-Setä
Registered: Feb 2010
From Finland
Posted August 10, 2013
Btw, the error message thingie does a "minidump" file (hilarious name). Is there a way I can read it? Would it even tell more about the error?
klaattu
Registered: May 2011
From Spain
Posted August 10, 2013
sanscript
Ltd. DeepSeeker
Registered: Jul 2011
From Norway
Posted August 10, 2013
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory_dump
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/dd996900.aspx
It might, but it usually helps if you are an MS engineer when reading it...
Post edited August 10, 2013 by sanscript
KneeTheCap
Nasse-Setä
Registered: Feb 2010
From Finland
sanscript
Ltd. DeepSeeker
Registered: Jul 2011
From Norway
Posted August 10, 2013
Maybe I should revert back to consoles...
Blame it on MS for shitty coding - everyone else does :p
chezybezy
CSA / nuts :)
Registered: Dec 2012
From United Kingdom
Posted August 10, 2013
interesting.
KneeTheCap
Nasse-Setä
Registered: Feb 2010
From Finland
Posted August 10, 2013
1: Bad drivers (manufacturer's code) and usually incorrectly blames on the operating system.
2: Faulty OS/HDD (i.e. corrupted)
3: Faulty CPU/Memory/Mama board/PSU (Power Supply)
(Usually in that order)
As the second post above mentions about rootkit/malware/adware/viruses/worms - usually it is not enough to do a system cleaning. But since your HDD are a "tad old", I suggest getting a new one, reinstall, and copy over personal files / games you might bring over. You should always have an external backup disk.
Going through event viewer usually gives more headache then solutions, that`s my experience anyway.
If that doesn`t work, then you have to to go trough a separate check list, just to eliminate what hardware that work / doesn`t work
About that power supply, if its faulty, wouldn't that mean the crashes would be more frequent while playing? So far the most common place for the comp to crash is while its loading something (Windows desktop, a game and stuff like that).
Tiefood
Dancing Around
Registered: Mar 2011
From United States
Posted August 10, 2013
Do you get a kernel inpage error too?
KneeTheCap
Nasse-Setä
Registered: Feb 2010
From Finland
Schnuff
←This Way
Registered: Sep 2012
From Germany
Posted August 10, 2013
YellowAries
goo.gl/ezVlkL
Registered: Mar 2012
From United States
Posted August 10, 2013
lol @ "Mama Board"
sanscript: [i] BSOD (Blue Screen of Death) crashes are commonly caused by 3 things;
1: Bad drivers (manufacturer's code) and usually incorrectly blames on the operating system.
2: Faulty OS/HDD (i.e. corrupted)
3: Faulty CPU/Memory/Mama board/PSU (Power Supply)
(Usually in that order)
As the second post above mentions about rootkit/malware/adware/viruses/worms - usually it is not enough to do a system cleaning. But since your HDD are a "tad old", I suggest getting a new one, reinstall, and copy over personal files / games you might bring over. You should always have an external backup disk.
Going through event viewer usually gives more headache then solutions, that`s my experience anyway.
If that doesn`t work, then you have to to go trough a separate check list, just to eliminate what hardware that work / doesn`t work[/i]KneeTheCap: [i] "tad old" means it's what, 5-6 years now? Something like that, so maybe it's time to replace that anyway. I have two, and windows is installed on the older and smaller one. The other HDD is much newer, maybe 3 years.
About that power supply, if its faulty, wouldn't that mean the crashes would be more frequent while playing? So far the most common place for the comp to crash is while its loading something (Windows desktop, a game and stuff like that).[/i] Loading something MAY be a RAM / Memory problem
Try using 1 stick of RAM if you have more than 1 and see if it stops the error(s). If you DO have more than 1 and you DO take them all out except for one like I just said, and you STILL get an error(s), try switching to another RAM stick and repeat this process until either the problem stops or you try all the RAM sticks you have and the problem doesn't cease.
Atleast this way you can rule out the RAM being faulty.
1: Bad drivers (manufacturer's code) and usually incorrectly blames on the operating system.
2: Faulty OS/HDD (i.e. corrupted)
3: Faulty CPU/Memory/Mama board/PSU (Power Supply)
(Usually in that order)
As the second post above mentions about rootkit/malware/adware/viruses/worms - usually it is not enough to do a system cleaning. But since your HDD are a "tad old", I suggest getting a new one, reinstall, and copy over personal files / games you might bring over. You should always have an external backup disk.
Going through event viewer usually gives more headache then solutions, that`s my experience anyway.
If that doesn`t work, then you have to to go trough a separate check list, just to eliminate what hardware that work / doesn`t work[/i]
About that power supply, if its faulty, wouldn't that mean the crashes would be more frequent while playing? So far the most common place for the comp to crash is while its loading something (Windows desktop, a game and stuff like that).[/i]
Try using 1 stick of RAM if you have more than 1 and see if it stops the error(s). If you DO have more than 1 and you DO take them all out except for one like I just said, and you STILL get an error(s), try switching to another RAM stick and repeat this process until either the problem stops or you try all the RAM sticks you have and the problem doesn't cease.
Atleast this way you can rule out the RAM being faulty.
Post edited August 10, 2013 by YellowAries