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Hello to anyone that replies or views this post, I would like to thank you ahead of time for taking the time to do so. I do want to say ahead of time I’ve never had a BSOD just browsing the internet or just sitting doing something mundane at the desktop. Recently I’ve been getting some BSODs that I can’t seem to figure out on my own, so I’m asking for some help. The first blue screen I got was last November ((I had only had the computer for 2 weeks at the most)) while trying to shut down the computer, which I believe happened one more time, but for some reason I had a feeling that it was caused by Steam not closing properly so now I close it myself before I shut down the computer. I really didn’t think anything of it at the time because it wasn’t reoccurring. I then went several months without one, the exact details aren’t entirely clear but I would guess that 85% of my blue screens are associated with playing games. I was used to having the occasional crash with any game, mainly Fallout: New Vegas and Skyrim, but on occasion Killing Floor as well. Then for some reason after I had put at least 450 hours on Killing Floor without one blue screen, I would get one pretty much every time that I played for about an hour. I have found hopefully a temporary workaround for this by running it in compatibility mode for Win XP SP3, disabling visual themes and desktop composition, no blue screen with that since. Then I started having blue screens with Fallout: New Vegas ((which I have about 73 hours on)) and Just Cause 2 ((with about 27 hours on)), only a couple if I recall correctly. I was overclocking my gpu some around this time (((Not anymore))) but even returning to the factory overclock of 900 MHz I was still having problems. I then got a blue screen while playing Skyrim ((75 gameplay hours or so)) only one but still frustrating. So far it seems that Fallout: New Vegas is the easiest to get a blue screen with some happening less than 5 minutes after starting a game. I haven’t been playing all the games that I have on Steam or tried playing all of them since this burst of blue screens started but I’ve never had a blue screen playing Arkham City or Serious Sam 3, which I think are both much more graphically intensive.
With most of the history out of the way I’ll say what I’ve already tried myself in an attempt to fix this. I downloaded Blue Screen View and it seems all but one of the dump files point to ntoskrnl.exe as the problem. I’ve also run driver verifier with only this driver checked on the list and didn’t even make it to the login screen without getting a blue screen. I’ve run Prime95 on the Small FFTs test for 10 hours without a problem; I’ve also stressed my gpu with Furmark’s burn in test, leveling out at 73C@74% fan speed without any issues.Memtest86+ has also been run for more than 3 complete passes with no errors as well, I believe it was 6 ½ hours total run time. So far that’s everything that I’ve done on my own, but since I can’t read dump files like a book as most of you can, I’m asking for your help. I’ll attach all the dump files I’ve accumulated so far as well. Once again to anyone that views or replies to this post, thanks again.
EDIT: I forgot to mention that both my cpu and gpu temps are below average from my research and shouldn't be part of the problem.
With most of the history out of the way I’ll say what I’ve already tried myself in an attempt to fix this. I downloaded Blue Screen View and it seems all but one of the dump files point to ntoskrnl.exe as the problem. I’ve also run driver verifier with only this driver checked on the list and didn’t even make it to the login screen without getting a blue screen. I’ve run Prime95 on the Small FFTs test for 10 hours without a problem; I’ve also stressed my gpu with Furmark’s burn in test, leveling out at 73C@74% fan speed without any issues.Memtest86+ has also been run for more than 3 complete passes with no errors as well, I believe it was 6 ½ hours total run time. So far that’s everything that I’ve done on my own, but since I can’t read dump files like a book as most of you can, I’m asking for your help. I’ll attach all the dump files I’ve accumulated so far as well. Once again to anyone that views or replies to this post, thanks again.
EDIT: I forgot to mention that both my cpu and gpu temps are below average from my research and shouldn't be part of the problem.
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