Got first Blue Screen of Death

[raildogg]

I used to get a blue screen about every month or so ago until I discovered some faulty RAM. It seems as if the RAM was interfering with the integrated graphics of the system since the crashes would occur when some video or game was playing, but I'm not sure about that. This makes sense since integrated graphics use a share of the system RAM. Since removing that RAM, things have improved quite a bit. I got a blue screen two weeks ago though and it occurred during video playback. I have since updated the video driver and so far it has been good.

Maybe a driver update can help in your situation. Also, I would run Memtest for around 15 hours or longer if possible. I like to get more than 20 passes.

 

[Shephard]

I have been playing Starcraft 2, for 2 days a couple of hours and no problems gaming.

I am using HD4000 graphics until I get a good deal on a card.

The only other time I got BSOD with this new computer was when I tried overclocking. Obviously you will get BSOD with that if you do something wrong.

 

[red454]

Did you ever try that WhoCrashed program?

 

[djDoubleP]

I 've had a blue screen due to something called "minidump".
specifically the report showed this path:

C:\Windows\Minidump\020413-16988-01.dmp

 

[sm625]

If you reformatted that 1TB drive then you wiped out two partitions, one of which was a 100MB system partition. And windows probably was in the middle of accessing it when it got blown away. I bet its just another example of really bad windows programming/design.

 

[Shephard]

Did you ever try that WhoCrashed program?

no

If you reformatted that 1TB drive then you wiped out two partitions, one of which was a 100MB system partition. And windows probably was in the middle of accessing it when it got blown away. I bet its just another example of really bad windows programming/design.

hopefully.

like I said no BSODs since Windows XP. Been using 7 since release.

The BSODs in XP weren't even from hardware. Just the os problems.

 

[Shephard]

I got no BSOD since this happen so I think maybe it was just the hard drive and Windows got scared.

 

[bononos]

Whats your cpu/mb?

 

[Shephard]

Whats your cpu/mb?

3570k and msi gd55