BSOD's - Not sure of the problem

d3moliti0n

d3moliti0n

d3moliti0n

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Hi

First, my computer spec is:

Gigabyte GA-73PVM-S2H motherboard
Pentium Dual-Core E2180 running at 3GHz (stock is 2GHz)
2GB Corsair XMS2 DDR2/PC-6400 memory
Point of View GTX 260 896MB Exo edition
CoolerMaster 520W PSU (it has all of the required PCI cables to power the GPU etc.)

Basically, I had been having graphics problems in WoW for the past month or so, just minor graphical glitches/errors and drops in FPS. Then yesterday everything just went wrong and all of the textures etc. went crazy and were showing up as crazy colours and such, obviously very bugged. So I decided to just wipe the current GPU drivers and install fresh ones, in the process of this I also managed to wipe the driver for my LAN connection so I couldn't get on the net, so I also ended up installing fresh chipset drivers aswell as graphics drivers. I logged into WoW and it was running fine, it seemed a lot smoother than it had been in a while and the framerate seemed steady. Problem solved I thought, until I got a BSOD about an hour and half or so later. The BSOD contained the following information/code:

stop: 0x0000009c (0x00000000, 0xB8344050, 0xB2000040, 0x00000800)

So I decided to just call it a night, but anyway, I logged into WoW again today and after about 15 to 20 minutes I get yet another BSOD containing the same information, so when I restarted my computer I sent the report to Microsoft and it said it's a problem relating to hardware installed in my computer and it gave me a list narrowing it down to 'CPU, Ram, PSU or Mainboard'.

When I'm not trying to play any games the computer seems stable (knock on wood) and I haven't had any BSOD's outside of games upto now.

Can anyone have a guess as to what they think the problem could be? And how can I go about testing each of those components to see which is causing the problem?

Thanks.
 
I would check and see if any cables are loose on your motherboard, and if all the bits are connected as they should be. That code normally indicates a motherboard related issue.
 
With new chipset drivers, you may need to reset your overclock. try running default and then reinstate the OC in stages. Run some prime and see if the temperatures are good.
 
Well, I decided to go into the BIOS and see if anything there was causing the problem, possibly the overclock to my CPU, so I decided to up the voltage a bit, I also made sure that my PCI-Express graphics card was being used and then I tried to play WoW again, and I was on it for a good two hours and I experienced no crashes/BSOD's. The only reason I closed it is to report back here, and ask that now I have been playing and experienced no crashes, do you think I should keep expecting them? I mean, is it reasonble to keep expecting them after playing for two hours with nothing happen?
 
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