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BSOD while playing games, error 116
Hi all,
After about a week of self diagnosis and doing everything possible, I come to you as my last resort. For the past week and a half, my PC has blue screened while playing pretty much every game I have. It used to do it very infrequently, and started while playing Assassin's Creed III. Since then, it's happened once during BioShock Infinite, and it happens pretty much all the time in Far Cry 3.
So, what have I done? I've cleaned the registry with CCleaner, use a driver cleaner to wipe my nVidia driver installation and reinstall, cleaned out my PC of all dust, made sure the video card was installed properly, etc, etc. I've pretty much done everything possible, and I still can't really come to a solid conclusion.
So, here I am, humbled and broken asking for help from those far more knowledgeable than I. My dump file from your wonderful Windows 7 diagnostic tool is below. If you could look through that and find something, anything, that could be causing this, I will be forever in your debt.
Thanks! (Oh, and you can find all my specs in my profile).
Attachment 262950
After reading additional threads on this forum, I have tried a new approach that seems to somewhat work. I have pushed Far Cry 3 down to medium settings and it seems to work fine now. I was going off of the recommended settings from nVidia Experience before, and I got a solid 30 FPS from it. It didn't seem like it was putting much stress on the card, and it wouldn't really explain why it blue screened right as I jumped into the game.
I also took off the side, and put a box fan up to it. It doesn't seem to be doing much in terms of cooling, but it also didn't crash where it usually does.
I would really appreciate it if somebody could go through my logs to see if something else is wrong, but it seems that it may be ok if I just don't push my system, even if it totally could play games on high settings with no problems before.
Last edited by Phazonmasher; 06 Apr 2013 at 11:20. Reason: Additional details