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Hi all.
My brother's computer has been hard locking for a few months now, used to be once a week or so, now it's at least 5 times a day.
It would only crash on youtube videos when maximising, cursor would freeze, followed by a loud beep from the motherboard speaker, and a BSoD. Every BSoD was "THREAD_STUCK_IN_DEVICE_DRIVER", pointing to the following:
watchdog.sys
ntoskrnl.exe
nv4_disp.dll
nvkldmm.dll
Further debugging is pointing to the firefox plugin container.
Initial thought is graphics fault (his GFX was beginning to fail at the time) or flash problem. However we have tried the following (since we have many spare parts lying about):
-Spare GFX
-Spare CPU
-Spare PSU
-Spare RAM (was slightly more stable when only running a single stick, makes me think the NB needs more volts but the BIOS doesn't give the option)
-Juggling RAM and slots about
-Complete reformat
-Reflashing BIOS and latest vBIOS
With absolutely no luck. It has now also begun BSoD'ing in L4D2 and causing unusual glitches in Minecraft (blocks disappearing etc).
Anything else we can try?
Problem is, it's pointing to either a board or software incompatibility at this stage, with little evidence to distinguish the two.
Going to retrieve the PCI diagnostic card from the mass of junk of tomorrow to try make sense of the crashes. System spec:
OCZ StealthXStream 400W
Athlon X2 5000+ 2.6GHz
3GB RAM
Gigabyte GA-M61PME-S2
Samsung F1 160GB
Abit Airpace
Zotac/BFG GF8800GT 512
Cheers
My brother's computer has been hard locking for a few months now, used to be once a week or so, now it's at least 5 times a day.
It would only crash on youtube videos when maximising, cursor would freeze, followed by a loud beep from the motherboard speaker, and a BSoD. Every BSoD was "THREAD_STUCK_IN_DEVICE_DRIVER", pointing to the following:
watchdog.sys
ntoskrnl.exe
nv4_disp.dll
nvkldmm.dll
Further debugging is pointing to the firefox plugin container.
Initial thought is graphics fault (his GFX was beginning to fail at the time) or flash problem. However we have tried the following (since we have many spare parts lying about):
-Spare GFX
-Spare CPU
-Spare PSU
-Spare RAM (was slightly more stable when only running a single stick, makes me think the NB needs more volts but the BIOS doesn't give the option)
-Juggling RAM and slots about
-Complete reformat
-Reflashing BIOS and latest vBIOS
With absolutely no luck. It has now also begun BSoD'ing in L4D2 and causing unusual glitches in Minecraft (blocks disappearing etc).
Anything else we can try?
Problem is, it's pointing to either a board or software incompatibility at this stage, with little evidence to distinguish the two.
Going to retrieve the PCI diagnostic card from the mass of junk of tomorrow to try make sense of the crashes. System spec:
OCZ StealthXStream 400W
Athlon X2 5000+ 2.6GHz
3GB RAM
Gigabyte GA-M61PME-S2
Samsung F1 160GB
Abit Airpace
Zotac/BFG GF8800GT 512
Cheers
just that right now it deffo isn't graphics card or driver.