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Random BSOD Win 7
OK, I am completely stumped. A Few weeks ago my graphics card fried. Nvidia GTS 8500. I got a new Nvidia GTX 460 se. Thats when my computer started to lock up and my speakers would make a buzzing sound. I figured it was the card and RMA'ed it. I had another crappy graphics card i put in my computer and it worked fine. Until a few days before i got my new card and my computer locked up again with the buzzing noise. When i installed my new card, again the same problem. This lock up was happening within 1-4 hrs of the computer being on. I have gone through several remedies (updates, loading fail safe settings in my bios, ect). After all those remedies, I can get my computer to work indefinantly, unless I'm playing a computer game, in which case it locks up and makes the buzzing noise, although the lock ups would seemingly come at random times. So i tried several different games with similar effect. However, Star craft II gave me something else. Instead of crashing randomly it would slow down the system permanently after about 10 mins into the game. I closed the game, making sure the process was disabled. The keyboard would work fine but the mouse lagged considerably and I would have to restart the computer. On a hunch of sheer desperateness I made a new user account on my system and tried star craft again, this time I actually got a BSOD. I did not write the full error screen. here is what i got.
Stop 0x00000016 (0xfffffA800097E64E0,....
nvlddmkm.sys
MY system is as follows
Win 7 pro 64-bit
AMD phenom 9550 (2.5 yrs)
Gigabyte MoBo GA-MA790x-ud4p(1 yr)
RAM 8G (GSKILL 4x2gb)(2.5 yrs)
EVGA Nvidia GTX 460 SE(new)
PSU xion 600watt(2.5 yrs)
SEA GATE 500GB HDD (1 yr)
Im not sure exactly what the issue is. Im at the point where I think i should rebuild the OS but im not sure if that would help.
Last edited by Maverickender; 16 Feb 2011 at 20:58. Reason: adding OS