BSOD when playing games

logi-cat · 19 Oct 2012 at 17:06

Playing Mafia 2 on my PC, when suddenly i get the blue screen of death which meant i had to restart my PC. This has happened 3 times now. Any reason why? My latest upgrade was 8GB of Kingston Hyper Genesis which i got form OCUK last week. Before that i ran 4GB of G.Skill RipJaw and never had this problem.

Specs is as follows: Intel Core i5 2500K @ 4.5GHz, Asus P8P67 Pro, 8GB Kingston Hyper Genesis, MSI GTX 560 TI Hawk, Antec TruePower 650W and 250GB HDD running Windows 7. Not sure what the problem is but would appreciate some help.

GTO656 · 19 Oct 2012 at 17:18

There is a chance it could be your RAM which myt be bad, I suggest you send it back to them.

wazza300 · 19 Oct 2012 at 17:23

did you enable x.m.p profile in the bios for your memory?if not try that

KompuKare · 19 Oct 2012 at 17:25

Go and download memtest86+, burn it to a CD -or just download just about any Linux distro since many have memtest86+ (Ubuntu, LinuxMint etc) and it's easy to turn Linux ISOs to bootable USB drives:
http://www.memtest.org/
To do a thorough memtest means letting it run for a few hours.

Did you write down the BSOD codes? If the error just flashed by you might have to go and turn off automatic restart in the System Properties control panel>Advance system settings>Startup and Recovery Settings.

sadbuttrue · 19 Oct 2012 at 19:22

Run CPU at stock for a while and see if it happens again.

honosuseri · 19 Oct 2012 at 19:38

Swapping the RAM out has effected the stability of your overclock I would wager. You have been told how to check the RAM. Rather than download Memtest, I would suggest ultimatebootcd or a similar bootdisk. They are full of diagnostic tools for the RAM,HDD, stress testing the CPU etc etc.

As already mentioned the Kingston RAM has XMP profiles. Use these in the BIOS to auto set the best speed and timings for the RAM.

Are you running the Kingston and GSkill together?

logi-cat · 19 Oct 2012 at 20:04

nope just the kingstons, ran memtest for 50 mins and no errors. I've installed a previous set of nvidia drivers (306.63, was running the latest ones) and so far no BSOD. will test Mafia 2 for a bit longer and see how that goes.

Defy Belief · 19 Oct 2012 at 20:06

Agreed with the RAM effecting the overclock, either try the old ram or remove the OC on the cpu and see if it happens again.

logi-cat · 19 Oct 2012 at 21:20

everything seems fine now, half an hour on mafia 2 and no problems, think it was the drivers.

logi-cat · 19 Oct 2012 at 22:21

BSOD again, gonna have to go back to basics and overclock from the beginning.