Blue screens and games crashing.

[Flogger23m]

I have had a lot of games crash of me as of late, and a few blue screens. The games in question are Unreal Tournament 3 and Half life 2 Episode 2. UT3 worked fine until recently, and I have not really played HL2 on this PC before. Fallout 3 runs fine though.

This is the error report I get after the blue screens:

Problem signature:
Problem Event Name: BlueScreen
OS Version: 6.0.6001.2.1.0.768.3
Locale ID: 1033

Additional information about the problem:
BCCode: 116
BCP1: FFFFFA800829D010
BCP2: FFFFFA600281D8F0
BCP3: 0000000000000000
BCP4: 0000000000000002
OS Version: 6_0_6001
Service Pack: 1_0
Product: 768_1

Files that help describe the problem:
C:\Windows\Minidump\Mini031409-01.dmp
C:\Users\Simarin\AppData\Local\Temp\WER-72712-0.sysdata.xml
C:\Users\Simarin\AppData\Local\Temp\WER2386.tmp.version.txt

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and I also got this:


Problem signature:
Problem Event Name: BlueScreen
OS Version: 6.0.6001.2.1.0.768.3
Locale ID: 1033

Additional information about the problem:
BCCode: c5
BCP1: 0000000000000008
BCP2: 0000000000000002
BCP3: 0000000000000001
BCP4: FFFFF80001F4A8C2
OS Version: 6_0_6001
Service Pack: 1_0
Product: 768_1

Files that help describe the problem:
C:\Windows\Minidump\Mini052609-01.dmp
C:\Users\Simarin\AppData\Local\Temp\WER-32307-0.sysdata.xml
C:\Users\Simarin\AppData\Local\Temp\WER9FF6.tmp.version.txt

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and this:

Problem signature:
Problem Event Name: BlueScreen
OS Version: 6.0.6001.2.1.0.768.3
Locale ID: 1033

Additional information about the problem:
BCCode: 1a
BCP1: 0000000000041287
BCP2: 0000000000000000
BCP3: 0000000000000000
BCP4: 0000000000000000
OS Version: 6_0_6001
Service Pack: 1_0
Product: 768_1

Files that help describe the problem:
C:\Windows\Minidump\Mini052209-01.dmp
C:\Users\Simarin\AppData\Local\Temp\WER-38048-0.sysdata.xml
C:\Users\Simarin\AppData\Local\Temp\WERAE86.tmp.version.txt

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Specs:
Vista 64bit Home Premium
GTX260 Superclocked 192 EVGA
4GB PC 6400 (2x2GB sticks)
WD 1TB hard drive
ASUS M3N78 Pro ATX AM2+


Before anyone says it, the PSU should be enough. My brother has the same CPU/RAM, but has an HD 48701GB and two hard drives and does not get these errors. The PSU should be sufficient.

Does this look like a video card error? My GTX 260 did get up to 82 degrees C at load. But then I bumped up my fan speed by 33% and still got a crash in HL2 Ep2... so I do not think it is a heat issue.

Anyone have any suggestions?

 

[Billb2]

Google the BSOD error codes (just the first 9 digits) from the screen.

Check Event Viewer.

What you posted in useless.

 

[jsedlak]

I have seen similar BSODs recently on my machine and can't figure them out. Googling the problem is of no help. Generally it relates to a bad stick of RAM but I have tested mine over and over again with not a single error. Hard drives both check out as well.

This leads me to less technical ideas like heat, bad configuration in BIOS or bad motherboard. I want to throw out heat because it just happened this morning and it is a cool 60* in my room (CPU temp read 47C, sys at 34C). I also want to throw out a bad mobo as that should have reared its head when I stress tested the RAM, although I could be wrong. Currently I am testing the mobo's "fail-safe" defaults, but I doubt it will have any effect. The only other idea I have is that the 64 bit drivers do not play nice with the system in some way...

 

[BTRY B 529th FA BN]

Posting all that nonsense generally will not help us anymore than it helped you. You need to google the error code. Also, letting us know if you are overclocking your machine will help.

Start with the usual stability tests.

Possible problems:
Unstable overclock
Failing memory stick(s)
Failing motherboard
Ethernet driver or hardware problem

 

[Flogger23m]

No overclocks, everything is stock from the factory.


Under event viewer, what should I be looking under? "Summary of Admin. Events"?


Also, would 82 degrees C be dangerous for a video card?

 

[BTRY B 529th FA BN]

Prime95
LinX
IBT
Memtest86 (memory testing through bios)

 

[Billb2]

Originally posted by: Flogger23m
Under event viewer, what should I be looking under? "Summary of Admin. Events"?
Also, would 82 degrees C be dangerous for a video card?

Anything in any of the logs with a red mark. 82°c is fine.