Win 7 Blue Screen

Kesz

Kesz

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As the title states I've been getting blue screens, and everytime it's happened apon exiting a game.

It started with Borderlands, one day I exited the game and bang, there it was, a blue screen. As an effect my save file corrupted and I lost everything. It happened again, and I decided to re-format my HDD.

Now, cue to re-formatted HDD and I just exited Dragon Age, bang, blue screen.

The annoying part is that the screen lasts for 1 second and disappears leaving me un able to read the error.

I am not sure what I should do, I'd like to assume that this is hardware related, seeing as I formatted and still have the same problem.

My system spec is;

-Intel Core i7 920 2.66Ghz (Nehalem) (Socket LGA1366)
-Corsair Dominator 3GB (3 X 1GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C8 (1600MHz) Tri-Channel
-Gigabyte EX58-UD3R Intel X58 (Socket 1366) PCI-Express DDR3 Motherboard
-EVGA GeForce GTX 260 "Core 216 55nm" SSC 896MB GDDR3 TV-Out/Dual DVI (PCI-Express)
-500GB HDD
-bequiet! 750w PSU
 
No, I haven't. I've not used one before, did a quick serach for memtest in google, got an ISO.

Will give it a try tonight, thanks for the info.
 
Just an FYI you can disable automatic restarts on BSOD by adjusting the Startup and Recovery settings in Advanced System Settings.

Does sound like RAM though. BSOD can normally be traced to 2 things, RAM or drivers, not always but they are the common problems.
 
go to advanced system properties, and turn off "automatically restart on errors" and the blue screen will stay.

I bet it'll say one of these:

IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL
Page Fault in Non-Paged Area

Both of those mean memory problems. +1 for memtest. Also check if your RAM voltages are correct. Go to your RAM manufacturers website and check what voltage its supposed to run at, then check if its at that in your BIOS. If not, change it to that.
 
In addition to the above, check your event viewer. This is normally a pretty good place to start. Goggle any related errors you find.

Secondly, go to the Startup and Recover window in Advanced systems properties and look for system failure. If you followed the advise above, then you would have unticked the "Automatically restart" box. Tick the box "Write an event to the system log" and note the location where the dump will be stored. When the problem reoccurs, look through the log to find any clues as to what maybe going on. Goggle anything that you find suspicious.

Make sure your VDIMM and memory timings are set to correct values. Check the memory manufacturers website for details and have a look at the FAQs while you are there. Make sure you have paging set to system managed and run the memtest.

Lastly, run a full disk scan. If there are problems with the disk where the page file is stored, you may run into problems.
 
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Admiral Huddy said:
Lastly, run a full disk scan. If there are problems with the disk where the page file is stored, you may run into problems.
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Good point. A corrupt pagefile will cause bluescreens too. If you get errors on the disk the pagefile is stored, you need to recreate the pagefile. Just set it to no page file, restart your pc, then set it to what it was before.
 
Thanks for all the replies. much appreciated.

I ran memtest and it turned up no errors. I also did a disc scan too, no errors reported there.

Bit stuck now. I've only just got back from work, so I havem't had the time to see if it'll happen again.
 
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