im at my wits end with my current build (in sig). its started to randomly crash for no reason. sometimes its when i play games, others when watching a movie, sometimes when browsing the internet and the strangest when idle on desktop.
i did initially think it was caused by my GPU, so i updated the drivers but still got the same problem. so could be the hardware, although if it was then it would surely be noticeable.
from the random crash from idle on the desktop i decided to see what processes were running at the time from what little info i could gather. narrowed it down to my antivirus (ESET Smart Security) when it does an hourly check for updates. so i turned that off so that it would only check every boot. most likely a driver conflict somewhere.
the desktop crashes have since stopped, however i have just now got a graphical error when playing cod2.
using ATI catalyst 9.8
i also thought it was my RAM however i ran 12 passes on memtest and all was fine so i think i can rule that out.
got using that debugging tool for windows to view the memory dump file but it doesnt give me any real results. sometimes when reading from an address which doesnt exist so i reindexed it all and that looks fine now.
i cant think of much else except a fresh install, any other ideas can be helpful.
i did initially think it was caused by my GPU, so i updated the drivers but still got the same problem. so could be the hardware, although if it was then it would surely be noticeable.
from the random crash from idle on the desktop i decided to see what processes were running at the time from what little info i could gather. narrowed it down to my antivirus (ESET Smart Security) when it does an hourly check for updates. so i turned that off so that it would only check every boot. most likely a driver conflict somewhere.
the desktop crashes have since stopped, however i have just now got a graphical error when playing cod2.
using ATI catalyst 9.8
i also thought it was my RAM however i ran 12 passes on memtest and all was fine so i think i can rule that out.
got using that debugging tool for windows to view the memory dump file but it doesnt give me any real results. sometimes when reading from an address which doesnt exist so i reindexed it all and that looks fine now.
i cant think of much else except a fresh install, any other ideas can be helpful.
