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      07-28-2012
Recently within the last day or so, any game I've tried playing I've recieved a blue screen. The games I've tried playing are Batman: Arkahm Asylum GOTY Edition, Batman: Arkham City and Fallout: New Vegas, all which worked fine the day before this started.

I know ahead of time that I have keyboard drivers that aren't so great and can cause problems but I'm not getting the same blue screens I have been before. One of the blue screens didn't even make a dump file: STOP: C0000135 The program can't start because %hs is missing. Try resintalling the program. I know that none of the games are missing any files as I have verified them with Steam's verify integrity of game cache.

I'll attach the dump files for this ahead of time.
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      07-29-2012
Mate,
Run chkdsk /r

It looks like you might have some disk problems.
 
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      07-29-2012
I have this response when running this; Cannot lock current drive. Chkdsk cannot run because the volume is in use by another process.

I will schedule a check and restart and let you know what happens.

EDIT: Alright I ran chkdsk after restarting my computer and it reported no problems, no bad sectors or anything like that.

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      07-29-2012
Here are 2 more dump files, both from Batman Arkham Asylum. I tried turning off Physx since some people said they had a problem with it and I updated my Physx driver but it didn't make a difference. Still got a blue screen within 5 minutes.

Both of these are F4 stops so this could go back the the keyboard I suppose, but when I first bought it a little over a week ago I was able to play for 3 hours with no crashes or blue screens.

I did notice that the game always seems to crash to the desktop showing an error message for a split second before causing the blue screen though.

EDIT: I added another dump file, this time from Batman: Arkham City
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      07-29-2012
Please turn Driver Verifier on please.
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- Go to Start and type in "verifier" (without the quotes) and press Enter
- Select "Create custom settings (for code developers)" and click "Next"
- Select "Select individual settings from a full list" and click "Next"
- Select everything EXCEPT FOR "Special Pool", "Force Pending I/O Requests" and "Low Resource Simulation" and click "Next"
- Select "Select driver names from a list" and click "Next"
Then select all drivers NOT provided by Microsoft and click "Next"
- Select "Finish" on the next page.

Reboot the system and wait for it to crash to the Blue Screen.
Continue to use your system normally, and if you know what causes the crash, do that repeatedly.
The objective here is to get the system to crash because Driver Verifier is stressing the drivers out.
If it doesn't crash for you, then let it run for at least 36 hours of continuous operation.

Reboot into Windows (after the crash) and turn off Driver Verifier by going back in and selecting "Delete existing settings" on the first page, then locate and zip up the memory dump file and upload it with your next post.

If you can't get into Windows because it crashes too soon, try it in Safe Mode.
If you can't get into Safe Mode, try using System Restore from your installation DVD to set the system back to the previous restore point that you created.
 
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      07-30-2012
Ran Verifier, did make it past login screen but not enough time to turn off verifier. While trying to boot in safe mode it would freeze and what appeared to be artifacts started appearing across the top of the screen.

I tried to turn it off with command prompt but I'm not sure if it worked because I changed out the keyboard at the same time as an experiment and was able to login no problem.
The reason why I think verifier was still running is everything was a bit sluggish until after I deleted the settings and rebooted.

Chkdsk reran on it's own reporting no problems once again. There are three dump files, two are from verifier and the other was before I ran verifier while playing Fallout New Vegas again.
I did get about an hour of playtime in before the blue screen this time.

The crashes from verifier look like they were from Saitek drivers again so the keyboard is causing verifier the grief once again, but the blue screen from New Vegas points to memory corruption it seems.
Not sure what to make of it.

Any ideas?

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      07-31-2012
Yes, two were from the sai driver. And one was from the disk problem.

Is there any chance of changing the KB in the future? Because it appears that all games don't like it.
 
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      07-31-2012
I don't know when I'll get to replacing it, I still need to shop around for one.

I'm more worried about this disk problem though.
I know Chkdsk can't gurantee that everything is fine but what would you think is wrong with it and how could I diagnose it?
 
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      07-31-2012
Mate,

You can check your Seagate Drives:
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http://www.seagate.com/support/downloads/seatools/#

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http://www.seagate.com/staticfiles/s...sDOS223ALL.ISO
 
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      08-01-2012
Alright, I ran Seatools for DOS for both short and long tests just to be effecient. Both drives passed both tests no problem.

Once again don't know what to think, especially since windows told me that it was unable to read the hard disk 2 or 3 times now after some of those blue screens.

Something else that doesn't make sense to me at least is that this hard drive problem only occurs during games and not any other time while the disk is being accessed.

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