Frame Gride 2
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Everytime I play a game... I get the blue screen of death and my system restarts... I forget what causes this problem or how to fix it.. anyone know how to fix it?
Blue Screen of Death Problem...
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Frame Gride 2
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GiLL said:
LOL... it dumps my memory and says alot of random numbers and letters.. i cant read it all before my computer restarts.
Windows XP Pro
AMD 3200+
512 ddram
Nvidia Geforce 5600
2 Maxtor 80 gig Drives
It was custom built.
I only started having this problem after I reformatted my machine last week.
I've had that happen to me a couple of times. Once it was due to bad ram, once i replaced it the problem went away and the other time was when i overclocked my cpu and windows xp thought i was trying to install the os on another system. Windows xp does that if you change the hardware too much
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Might be a memory problem. Try Memtest86.
http://www.memtest86.com/
Edit: There's a new motherboard out that has memtest86 built in! Can't remember the manufacturer though...
http://www.memtest86.com/
Edit: There's a new motherboard out that has memtest86 built in! Can't remember the manufacturer though...
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Agp drivers (possibly related to the fast write issue) so try setting your AGP speed at 4x and turning fast write off.
Then again it also sounds like you could have some bad ram or you need to loosen your ram timings.
It could be that you don't have an adequite power supply in your computer (I hope you're at least using a 450w supply in that machine...seriously)
Is it overclocked?
Did you ever touch anything in the bios settings?
The underlying cause of your problems could be any one of those issues or a combination of them.
Good Luck.
Then again it also sounds like you could have some bad ram or you need to loosen your ram timings.
It could be that you don't have an adequite power supply in your computer (I hope you're at least using a 450w supply in that machine...seriously)
Is it overclocked?
Did you ever touch anything in the bios settings?
The underlying cause of your problems could be any one of those issues or a combination of them.
Good Luck.
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If he had a bad/inadequite psu wouldn't the pc just reboot randomly and not go into the blue screen?
I had a bad motherboard that would send my pc into the blue screen, it was an MSI.
I had a bad motherboard that would send my pc into the blue screen, it was an MSI.
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gamejunkie said:
It can, or an inadequite power sully means the machine will be fine during moments of low cpu usage, but the second the resources of that machine start really being used it become erratic and unstable.
Leading to constant BSODs or even causing permanent damage to the components.
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Frame Gride 2 said:
More details, plz.
Such as which motherboard and power supply.
If this just started after a format and clean install, it stands to reason that you might not have installed chipset specific drivers (like if its a VIA chipset based board) for your motherboard.
The devil is in the details.