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BSOD's when downloading / playing War Thunder / other online games
Hi , a friend of mine asked me to take a look at his Windows 7 64bit computer as it was blue screening a few mins into playing a game called War Thunder. He said its been also doing while he plays a few other games online as well.
Im a help desk technician so i went through all the usual things of checking drivers , reliability monitor and event logs and couldn't pin down the problem. he showed me a few pics on his phone of the blue screens he's been getting and just about half of them were "IRQL-NOT-LESS-OR-EQUAL" so it had me thinking driver problem. But after updating all the drivers and doing a few other checks on the system and bios (no obvious sign of over clocking) i still couldn't work out the problem.
So i then asked him to start playing the game and sure enough 5mins into playing it online it blue screens with a 0x0000001D. ive seen it come up with 0x0000001E's as well
So then he re-installed the system altogether. The next day it blue screened once during a windows update on the fresh system.
So i ran every test i could think of on the newly installed system. Mem test's , load test's, gfx tests, hard drive files and sectors. All showed no errors and none of then caused a BSOD.
As there were no blue screens during the stress testing i thought the system might be more stable at this point so i decide to download his game again for him. But before it had finished downloading the first gb of the install file i got a BSOD!
So then i swapped out the memory for RAM from one of my old comps. I then started the downloading of the install file again and it blue screened again.
I disconnected the DVD drive and swapped out the GFX card for exactly the same card (though different make) and 5 mins later it blue screened during a windows update.
All in all it seems to be blue screening during network activity before i re-installed the system and after.But before i reinstalled the system it was using a PCI wireless network card which i removed when i first got the computer back to my place for testing and have been using the onboard nic on a cat 6 cable and its still BSOD'ing. Ive checked the 'crashes and connection issues' forum for the game 'WarThunder' and no one else seems to be complaining of BSOD'ing. Plus its not just that game.
Here is the system specs :
Operating System
Microsoft Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit
CPU
AMD Athlon 64 X2 5600+ 32 °C
Brisbane 65nm Technology
RAM
4.00GB Dual-Channel DDR2 @ 264MHz (4-4-4-12)
Motherboard
ASRock N68C-S UCC (CPUSocket) 28 °C
Graphics
DELL E173FP (1280x1024@60Hz)
1024MB AMD Radeon HD7700 Series (Sapphire/PCPartner)
Hard Drives
466GB Seagate ST350032 0AS SCSI Disk Device (SATA) 24 °C
Optical Drives
MagicISO Virtual DVD-ROM0000
Audio
VIA High Definition Audio
He claims the MOBO and the 2x2gb ram is only 4 months old.
So im about to admit defeat on this one (so probably MOBO or CPU) but i thought id give you guys a crack at it first.
Thanks
Last edited by VitalOd; 28 Apr 2013 at 07:20.