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Multiple crashes / Graphical BSOD.
Hi guys.
I had a problem a couple of months ago where after a while, nearly all my games would crash with a recovery issue. I had this resolved and was told numerous times that it was to blame on X, Y, Z programs because they weren't made by Windows.
However, suddenly this afternoon,I was playing warcraft when I hear an IM drop in, then I started getting graphical artefacts and was unable to alt tab, Ctrl/Alt/Delete, or use the windows key to escape. This started happening every time I restarted and tried to play the game, after about a minute. Before the issue I had happily been playing for a few hours, no problems.
Thinking it could possibly be the heat, I got some extra airflow in the room and lowered the temperature, to no avail. I checked for viruses, none. I closed all programs except the game itself, no effect. I lowered the graphical settings, nada. I then updated my graphics drivers to the newest set availble, still no luck.
My game then crashed with a full BSOD (attached, the latest in the file.) - Now when I turned my computer back on, I have graphical artefacts all over my screen, even in safe mode. There are 5 'groups' of lines that run down the screen, distorting everything. When I move my cursor over them they disappear but reappear as soon as the screen refreshes from something like scrolling down a page and such.
I was unable to run the report as requested, it came up with a page saying an unspecified error has occured and a report could not be generated.
I'm using Windows 7 Ultimate X64, have dual Nvidia 9800GTs. The original issues I had occured on both Windows 7 and Windows Vista (as I had dual boot at the time). I did a clean install and completely wiped the hard drive at the time, so I just have 7 now. Retail version, as you may have just guessed.
Give me a shout if you need any further info.
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Just noticed restarting that the graphical artefacts are present even on the startup screens, before Windows even loads. This may in fact have progressed to the point where it needs to be in a different section, but I'm not 100% sure as it started with BSODs.
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I've also just noticed my Nvidia control panel has disappeared.
Last edited by Silvestra; 11 Sep 2010 at 15:29. Reason: Update