KMSELDI service terminated unexpectedly

mushtafa · 20 Apr 2015 at 22:55

Any ideas? Windows 8.1. Event 7034. According to event viewer, it's showing as an error on both my last crashes.

Haven't found much information on Google, some pages suggest it's Spyware/Malware?

ED209 · 21 Apr 2015 at 07:43

if it suggests to be malware run a full scan using malwarebytes.

other option is to try and check windows system files to make sure they are not corrupt.

open command prompt as a admin and type sfc /scannow the scan will run and tell you if there is any OS issues

mushtafa · 21 Apr 2015 at 11:02

I ran that command the other night when I was having problems. It came back OK, no faults found

ED209 · 21 Apr 2015 at 11:10

what are you doing on the PC at the time of the crash?

have you tried running memtest to check the ram?

mushtafa · 21 Apr 2015 at 11:57

Been attempting to play GTA 5

ED209 · 21 Apr 2015 at 12:07

do you have the same issue on other games at all or is it just GTA 5 that's causing the problems?

mushtafa · 21 Apr 2015 at 12:25

Just GTA5. System. Has been solid overwise

ED209 · 21 Apr 2015 at 12:36

I don't know if this will help but might be a idea to remove the overclock (if its the PC in your sig) from the CPU and see if the crashing still happens

mushtafa · 21 Apr 2015 at 12:55

I did, crash remains. Will have another go tonight and see what happens.

zola25 · 21 Apr 2015 at 20:18

Might be worth testing your RAM with memtest86+ if you've not done so already.

mushtafa · 21 Apr 2015 at 21:18

Is Windows memory test good enough? It passed that without issue

zola25 · 21 Apr 2015 at 21:38

It can be a decent indication, but having had to RMA some memory recently memtest86+ picked up errors that the windows test didn't - mind you I had to run many passes before it failed.

yashiro · 25 Apr 2015 at 04:08

You have a pirate version of Windows perhaps (kmspico). Or it's the same exe simply installed as malware.

mushtafa · 26 Apr 2015 at 13:20

Can you explain please yashiro? It's genuine as far as I know. (eBay key, so may well not be...)

mushtafa · 26 Apr 2015 at 22:16

Every test I've done has come back OK.

I turned some graphic settings down in GTA5, and it's been a lot better.....until tonight.

BSOD 124. I've only ever seen this with a bad overclock. I've removed mine for the time being. Google suggests it could be bad hardware, but what?
All stability/stress tests run OK

zola25 · 27 Apr 2015 at 19:17

I'd expect toning down graphical settings to remove stress from the GPU rather than CPU in most cases. Is the GPU overclocked at all?

mushtafa · 27 Apr 2015 at 19:22

GPU is stock

zola25 · 27 Apr 2015 at 20:13

Latest driver for your GPU?

mushtafa · 27 Apr 2015 at 20:59

Yep, 15.4 Beta

zola25 · 30 Apr 2015 at 19:57

The only other thing I can think of is a PSU or motherboard issue, but that's fairly unlikely if only GTA5 is causing the issue.