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Help with crash, not sure if it's software or HW
Built my own system and installed 64 bit version of Windows 7 Pro. It is a full retail version. It was installed over an XP install, but has since been reinstalled on a clean partition.
The system is only 2 months old. The OS resintallation was just a few days ago.
I built the machine and it worked well for a while. Then after playing Portal for a week, the machine started to freeze up. The next thing I noticed is that the machine would freeze when just browsing the web. Afterwards, the machine wouldn't start at all and I would get the BSOD. Thought it was the video card causing the problems and the folks at the video card manufacturer thought it might be too, so I bought a second video card to test it.
I replaced the video card with a similar model from a different manufacturer, but the same thing happened and got this current BSOD.
Oh, also ran memtest 86 and was able to get through 3+ cycles without errors.
I have enclosed the dmp file from my /windows/minidump folder.
I would appreciate any insight you can offer.
Thanks!