Get BSOD every few days
I'm trying to find out what happens to my computer every few days. Applications will constantly crash and then I'll get the blue screen of death. I reset the bios and then it works for a few days and the same thing occurs.
Is there anyway to really pinpoint this? Here's what the error report said when my computer restarted Quote:
Any help or assistance with this would be great. It's a computer I built 3 years ago with the help of some great people on here, so I don't know if it's a driver issue or if something is having a hard time getting along hardware wise. |
heat issues?
bad ram? chipset / processor going bad? who knows? |
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sometimes, it can be a bitch to trouble shoot if you dont have spare parts.
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What OS is installed? how long has it been installed? If it's Vista I would install something else. I would go with overheating/bad cpu/ram as well...but you could try reinstalling your windows.
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It sounds like a driver issue, specifically a video card driver issue.
I'd go to the manufacturer's website to download and install the latest drivers. |
What Dane said.
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If it's vid card related you could also make sure your video card fan is operating. I've had a few of them go out and it BSODs.
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Thanks guys.
Will try that when I get back on Friday. I def. think it's a driver issue. |
If you want to find out EXACTLY what driver is causing it, PM me.
I will have you email me the minidump file (C:\Windows\Minidump\010110-18860-01.dmp). You could also analyze it yourself - Windows Debug tool aren't hard to use once you get them functional but getting them functional is somewhat complicated. Let me know if you want to go that route. |
BlueScreenView works pretty good at identifying what driver is causing the BSOD.
Download it for free here: http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/blue_screen_view.html |
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Or it could be a driver...or any number of things. It's really hard to troubleshoot these things. |
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The presence of the BSOD confirms that kernel debug was able to do a crash dump, which generally exonerates the CPU. More than likely, it's either GPU or RAM that is causing it. |
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If you suspect video card, I'd guess your GPU is shooting craps. Pull the card and look at the capacitors. You can tell they've gone to shit when they're all domed up. You can smell the ozone as well. If you have a spare video card, throw it in the slot and see if that fixes the problem.
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Managed to pinpoint the problem. Had a piece of ram that went bad. Took that out, and updated all the drivers and have had no issues ever since.
Thanks to everyone for their help. |
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