Blue screens and freezing!

Emjay86

Emjay86

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Hey guys, I'm hoping some of you can help me figure out what is going on with my machine currently. Basically last night I was playing a game on max Payne 3 when after half an hour it froze on a map change and resulted in a blue screen. I then later started the pc up again and played another game. Again after around half an hour of gaming it froze and blue screened.

I then got a bit worried And decided I'd check for viruses and do a general clean. I finally put it on to defrag one of the hard drives overnight. I woke up this morning and it was still on and when I put the monitor on I was greeted with a blue screen.

Any ideas what could be causing this?

Thanks in advance!
 
Overheating? Have the cables been inserted properly? Lose RAM/Heatsink?

Download a blue screen reader program it will give you an indication of what's gone wrong.
 
download bluescreen viewer it will give us more of an idea of what it is, also when was the last time your pc was clened oput, i know an old g-card i owned used to overheat and bsod my computer due to the fan being clogged (it used to be owned by a smoker i bought it second hand)
 
Interesting you guys say that. I thought my graphics cards were hotter than usual. As soon as i start the machine up they are on 40 odd degrees Celsius. They are air cooled but I'm sure they were a lot cooler. As a result I did give the inside a good blast with some air cans and nothing really changed so I figured I was losing the plot and it was normal. I do run an aggressive Msi afterburner profile so the max temps still hang around 70 degrees from what I've noticed. Ill download the software when I get back from work.

Anything else it could be?

Perhaps my CPU watercool pump had given in and the CPU is overheating? Ill have to have a good look. Thanks so far!
 
So it BSOD while defragging? I think you've got a possible hard drive failure happening soon. If you get a BSDO with KERNAL_DATA_INPAGE_ERROR then a failing hard drive is the most common cause followed by motherboard.
 
Have you updated any drivers recently? Check the activity of your card in the UI and see if it's active, it could be a dodgy driver or something, somewhere is using the card that shouldn't be, it must get pretty hot to bluescreen though - my card will only BSOD around 130C
 
Weazle said:
So it BSOD while defragging? I think you've got a possible hard drive failure happening soon. If you get a BSDO with KERNAL_DATA_INPAGE_ERROR then a failing hard drive is the most common cause followed by motherboard.
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Out of curiosity I figured the same. I have 2 hard drives. One is a SDD with my windows stuff on and the other is a HDD with all my other stuff (games, music and so on).

How long do SDD's typically last for? Ive had it for 2 years. Should I be doing anything to help maintain it and so on.

Ive run checkdisk but nothings come up as being wrong.

Cheers!
 
Weazle said:
So it BSOD while defragging? I think you've got a possible hard drive failure happening soon. If you get a BSDO with KERNAL_DATA_INPAGE_ERROR then a failing hard drive is the most common cause followed by motherboard.
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Yea it was left on all night with only defraggler running (set to shut down after completion) on my HDD (you don't defrag SDD's right?) and when I woke this morning it was still on with a nice BSOD. I didn't have time to faff around with it so I closed it and left for work.

Interestingly ive just got a bluescreen viewer software program and I have nothing in the minidump. Perhaps I deleted it all in my cleanup or something.
 
Weazle said:
So it BSOD while defragging? I think you've got a possible hard drive failure happening soon. If you get a BSDO with KERNAL_DATA_INPAGE_ERROR then a failing hard drive is the most common cause followed by motherboard.
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I just got that message after a BSOD from idling on my desktop.

How can I go about figuring out which hard drive it is that is failing?
 
Morg, that's not the best solution, Emjay, download Crystal Disk Info, you can download it from here.

Please post screenshots of your results.
 
Heres the pics...

They seem to state the drives are ok...

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It may be worth me adding that I have had problems ever since I installed and ran 'Glary utilities'. Im sure it wasn't the utility it self but one of the functions seems to have caused a bit of chaos on my PC (files are all jumbled all over the place, shortcuts no longer have icons, programs no longer findable etc.)
 
Just to make things better I figured id do a clean install of windows...

Can't find the bloody disc anywhere. Other half says she moved it all into the same location and is it there? No... bloody women...

This is getting a wee bit frustrating now!

Anyway thanks for the help so far!
 
Any further ideas on what this may be?

Im in the middle of doing a fresh install of windows so im hoping that works...
 
Hyburnate said:
If you keep getting the BSOD, do you not have the Minidump? It would be incredibly helpful.
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Unfortunately on BSOD it would just freeze without making the dump. Ill be sure to try and get one next time if it doesnt freeze.

If it does help, before getting the BSOD the whole machine would freeze up as if there was a memory leak or something. It would start slowing then crashing certain applications until explorer would crash and then BSOD to which that too would crash.

This is making me think its possibly dead memory?

Ive run a DXDIAG and it all came back as normal/no issues and ive run tests with various programs on the hard drives (all came back fine).

Ive just finished the fresh install of windows so im hoping that cures it. If not I may resort to going insane.

Thanks so far for the help!
 
what fw version do you have on your m4 ssd? seen a lot of issues with m4's freezing lately until they flashed to the latest fw
 
wazza300 said:
what fw version do you have on your m4 ssd? seen a lot of issues with m4's freezing lately until they flashed to the latest fw
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Where would I find this info? Ive had the SSD for just over 2 years now but I would have thought they lasted longer than that...

As for the memtest ive done one at startup and it all came back fine.
 
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