Machine Check Exception

vader1671

vader1671

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Hi, guys, sorry about this but I've gotta do a quick sob story for a bit.

I just came over to the UK for my college. Friends told me that getting a computer in the UK would blow a hole in my wallet so I got one assembled and shipped it over.

Now, I'm getting this
Machine_Check_Exception
Stop: 0X0000009C (0X00000004 0X8054D5F0 0XB2000000 0X0070F0F) when I play games. This is random, I can play the same game for 5 hours and hit the BSOD or it can BSOD in 15 minutes. After some googling, I understand that this is a 100% hardware problem.

Here are my specs.

430W CoolerMaster PSU
Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. GA-K8N51GMF-9 Mobo
AMD 64X2 4400
Gefore 7600GT overclocked out of the box
Hitachi 250GB HDD SATA2
2GB Corsair RAM (2 x 1GB)

I've ran it through a battery of tests. Prime95 was clean, memtest86+ was clean, and the Hitachi HDD diagnostic that I have came up clean as well. I ran the S&M utility and while my temp went up to around 50C, my voltage didn't budge (ok, well the delta was 0.06V).

I'm at an utter loss. What is wrong? I'm new to the UK so I don't know whether I can drop off my PC somewhere and just tell them to fix it. Can you guys give me some help?
 
Has it ever worked OK? Did you try it before you shipped it out here?

Does it work ok if you are not playing games?

Would it be possible to try any of your components in a friends PC? As you've already done a few tests, i would try swapping the graphics card with someone elses and see if it makes any difference.


p.s. how much was it to get it built abroad and shipped over here, if you don't mind me asking?
 
This? it cost me a bit less than 400 pounds (I had a friend of a friend who had a discount).

I did test it for a day before it came over and it had no problems. Though this doesn't really prove anything, since I can play for about 6 hours or so without running into a BSOD.

Oh, and it runs fairly well when I'm not playing games. It did BSOD once when an AntiVirus scan was running, but I promptly redid the scan and nothing happened.

Me being a poor student, I don't have the toolsor resources to swap out components at will. I'm pretty n00by at doing it too. I haven't ever changed a PSU or mobo, I always got a shop to build my PC, then threw in parts whenever I needed them.
 
Hi, these error messages are not very useful, but I was having the 9c stop error it turned out that I had a dying Hard Drive, and it's bad sectors was causing the machine to BSOD. Also can be caused by a underpowered PSU or even by something stupid like Nvidia Firewall software, which get installed.

Though if it worked before it shipped, then I would check and reseat all the components in the system just in case any of them came loose in the journey over.

Anthony
 
No go. I checked the insides and reseated all the parts and the BSODs still come .

Is there any shop in London which is trustworthy enough for me to plonk the tower there and ask them to fix it?
 
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