Pulling out my hair with this problem. BSOD!

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I'd be eternally grateful if someone is able to fix this problem.

Basically, my PC suffers a BSOD but only when I use certain applications. The majority of games I've installed work splendid for example:

Skyrim works 100%
World of Warcraft works 100%
Sleeping Dogs works 100%
Sonic Generations works 100%
Tomb Raider works 100%

My emulator to play PS2 games, PCSX2 works 100%
Benchmarking tools such as Heaven, Fumark and stress testing with Intel Extreme Tuning Utility all perfectly stable.

Windows 8.1 runs fine.

This is the part I'm pulling my hair out. Whenever I play Battlefield 4, Planetside 2 or run Cinebench to benchmark my GPU/CPU I get the dreaded BSOD.

My system Specs:
EVGA 780 Superclocked ACX
i5 4670k
Gigabyte G1.SNIPER Z87 Motherboard
Corsair CMY8GX3M2A1866C9 Vengeance Pro Series 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 1866Mhz CL9 XMP
XFX 850W Black Edition 80+ Gold Fully-Modular Power Supply
Samsung 840 EVO 250GB SSD


So, does anyone know why my system is able to play some games perfectly, yet a select few will not run at all?


P.S. A few things to point out.
-The BSOD says machine_check_exception.
-My system is not over clocked although I have increased Vcore voltage to 1.2 as I thought it may have been set too low.


If anyone can solve this I'll gladly donate £10 to that persons paypal, it's driving me nuts!!
 
Machine_Check_Exception is usually an indication of hardware failure. Could be Cpu, mobo, ram etc,.
Have you checked Cpu and Gpu temps? Ran Memtest on your ram or checked drives, certainly the one where these programs are installed.
It is just a process of elimination, I'm afraid.
 
This is pretty crazy! I had exactly the same issue!
Same Motherboard as well, how ever i'm running a 4770k

Every game runs perfect, but when i'm 20 mins into BF4 i get the BSOD!

So I checked everything, and upped my Voltage slightly and now everything seems ok...

check your overclocking.
 
Furyus said:
This is pretty crazy! I had exactly the same issue!
Same Motherboard as well, how ever i'm running a 4770k

Every game runs perfect, but when i'm 20 mins into BF4 i get the BSOD!

So I checked everything, and upped my Voltage slightly and now everything seems ok...

check your overclocking.
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My system is not over clocked although I have increased Vcore voltage to 1.2 as I thought it may have been set too low.
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:D
 
xb8browney said:
I'd be looking at the SSD.
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Thanks for the suggestions guys.
The games I've listed run perfectly when installed to the same SSD.
I just don't get why some games work and others don't

The cinebench software is installed to another hard drive and that crashes also in the same way it does with certain games.
 
Furyus said:
This is pretty crazy! I had exactly the same issue!
Same Motherboard as well, how ever i'm running a 4770k

Every game runs perfect, but when i'm 20 mins into BF4 i get the BSOD!

So I checked everything, and upped my Voltage slightly and now everything seems ok...

check your overclocking.
Click to expand...


Can you go into more detail what settings you have in BIOS? Like I said I've upped the voltage to 1.2v but is there anyway to turn adaptive mode off for example?
 
funny you should say this i got the same problem can be playing Tomb Rader or COD perfect as soon as i go into BF4 can be lucy of draw but it soon gives me Black Screen and locks up solid. i am putting it down to my GPU as i can drop the clock down to stock and can run longer
 
probably need more cpu voltage,bf4 is cpu heavy

look in event viewer for any warnings/errors related to cpu/memory (typically whea parity 19)
 
UPDATE-

Disabling 4 cores to 2 cores in Bios has seemingly fixed this problem.
Obviously I can't stay on 2 cores but does anyone have any suggestions or reasons it shutdowns when using all cores on the 4670k.
 
Bad imc on the 4770k for 1866Mhz CL9?


Wipe the bios reformat and run BF4 on its own and work from there with 1600mhz memory set by XMP. I would check over the default voltages but it should be ok when you use XMP at 1600mhz with CL9. Do you set the bios to optimized after the first setup as well? You should do a bios update on the first build and keep it to safe defaults and once that is done go optimized and XMP in the bios and save it.
 
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If anyone can solve this I'll gladly donate £10 to that persons paypal, it's driving me nuts!![/QUOTE]

Ah i know the problem.. you have a steering wheel on your lap !!! :D
 
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