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BSOD variety of crashes while playing BF3
Hello everyone,
Over the past few months my PC has been affected by BSOD crashes while playing BF3. The crashes have been for a number of seemingly different reasons and I need help with where to go next. I have read through your forum instructions about posting and hope that I've attached the necessary files in order to help me find out what is causing the crashes.
My PC runs absolutely fine while completing day to day tasks and has never BSOD'ed during these tasks. The crashes usually happen about 20 mins into game play on BF3. The screen will freeze then distort for about 2 seconds then show the BSOD crash reason. I've downloaded and looked through some of the .dmp files using Blue Screen View and one of the most popular reason is SYSTEM_THREAD_EXCEPTION_NOT_HANDLED. Having looked at it, it seems that this crash is caused by a driver named dxgmms1.sys which I've read on the net is in relation to DirectX. Is that correct? I've read through quite a few reasons online and played around myself with uninstalling drivers and re-installing up to date ones for my Graphics Card, Motherboard, USB Devices etc. I've also had BSOD crashes in relation to MEMORY_MANAGEMENT. I've run Memtest86 for about 6 hours and I believe it completed 7 passes with no errors on either stick. I've also run chkdsk on my HDD's and that doesn't seem to find any errors. I'm currently running on old AMD Catalyst Drivers 12.10, I had 13.1 installed but the crashes still occurred with the update of that. My Graphics Card is OC'd but it was a factory OC from when I bought the card. I've tried other games and stress tests such as 3dMark and it seems to pass fine and also other games seem to run without failure. I hope from the minidump files you might be able to asses if there is something in particular that is causing the crashes.
I've also run Malware Bytes and Virus scan and nothing shows.
If I've not post all of my PC Specs on my profile page here is another run down:
AMD Phenom II X4 965 (@stock 3.4Ghz)
Asus M4A88t EVO Mobo (880G)
4GB 2x2GB Corsair (CPU-Z shows 667mhz DDR3 PC3 - 10700 - don't know If I'm looking at the right section!)
1x 250GB Maxtor HDD
1x 500GB Seagate HDD
MSI Radeon HD6850 1Gb (860 /1100)
beQuiet 530W PSU
MS Windows 7 SP1 Home Premium
Full list of crash errors:
MEMORY_MANAGEMENT, NTFS_FILE_SYSTEM, SYSTEM_THREAD_EXCEPTION_NOT_HANDLED, IRQL_NOT_LESS_EQUAL, DRIVER_CORRUPTED_EXPOOL, KMODE_EXCEPTION_NOT_HANDLED, BAD_POOL_HEADER, CACHE_MANAGER, SYSTEM_SERVICE EXCEPTION, DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL
Any help appreciated!
Thanks in Advance.
Sandy