Blue screen during gaming

[stipalgl]

Specs off the bat:

E8500 @ 3.8GHz
Gigabyte UD3P
Corsair 750W PSU
4x1GB GB DDR2-800MHz at 4-4-4-12
GTX 260 Core 216
1000TB Samsung Spinpoint F1
HAF 932

Blue screen seems to occur during heavy gaming or after long periods of gaming. I tried uninstalling and reinstalling nVidia drivers but it occurred again.

The game will be playing and will freeze, with the sound stuttering while frozen before it blue screens and says memory being dumped. It then proceeds to restart.

I checked my heat on my GPU and it's loading at around 58 and idleing around 31.

Anyone have any idea what this may be? I had my video checked and nothing was found to be wrong with it. Prior to the E8500, I had an E8400 and the same thing happened so I know I can rule out the processor.

My guess would be that it leaves the PSU and RAM as the possible causes.

Thoughts?

 

[nsafreak]

Yep that would make me suspicious of the RAM and power supply as well. Easy way to test the RAM is to run memtest86+ overnight and see what, if any, errors it produces. For the PSU you'll probably want to get a multimeter and check its voltages.

 

[Boobs McGee]

How stable is your OC?

 

[stipalgl]

Stable using PRIME for 4 hours. I really don't think it's the CPU because I was also having problems with an OC'ed E8400 until I replaced it last month with the E8500.

It just seems like the blue screen occurs during load. I'm also wondering however, if it could be some kind of motherboard/bios problem.

 

[Boobs McGee]

You set 9.5x400 right now or a lower multi? If lower with higher FSB I would be thinking mem too. Maybe check the mem voltage and try loosening the timings a bit? Also did you try to google your BSOD error message?

 

[techmanc]

Try disabling your sound by removing sound card or disabling it in BIOS and see if problem persists.

 

[stipalgl]

Yes McGee, I'm running at 9.5 and 400 bus. I'll try to google it the next time it happens. The problem is it only lasts about a few seconds while dumping memory before restarting.

Techmanc, in what way would a sound card be causing the problem you think?

 

[LOUISSSSS]

run your CPU with OCCT 3.0 and if it passes the OCCT test for 2-4 hours you're fine.

if it passes that then it'll likely be your nvidia drivers causing a problem with something on your OS, if reinstalling drivers doesn't help you'll need to reformat, since your OS is already corrupted.

 

[stipalgl]

Thanks LOUIS, I'll try that.

 

[techmanc]

Originally posted by: stipalgl
Yes McGee, I'm running at 9.5 and 400 bus. I'll try to google it the next time it happens. The problem is it only lasts about a few seconds while dumping memory before restarting.

Techmanc, in what way would a sound card be causing the problem you think?

Trying to find out if there a conflict with your sound card and your other devices.

 

[stipalgl]

Okay so just earlier today, it blue screened again, only this time, it actually occurred while I was simply surfing the internet.

I had a chance to quickly spot the blue screen message up top.

IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL

Which could be a multiple of things correct?

 

[techmanc]

Could be a driver issue or hardware conflict of maybe a loose connection. For loose connection I would check all the power and drive connection make sure there no recessed pins. Also reseat all cards plugged into computer.

 

[BTRY B 529th FA BN]

You did run Memtest86+ v2.11 right?

make several passes with that and make sure you ram will operate with your overclock speed

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