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BSOD 0x10e while watching Youtube vid, but laptop is recently unstable
Simply put, the past few days, my Laptop has been misbehaving quite badly.
While playing Tera, the laptop sometimes locks up completely, giving the familiar hanging sound that usually comes with a BSOD. But not always yielding one. The two times it did bring up a BSOD, there was no dump file made. In response to this, I renewed the page file a few times. Even going so far as to disable it, rebooting, deleting the file, then re-enabling it. Double-checking if it has re-appeared, which it has. (obviously, yes, it's set to create a dump file upon bsod)
After a few more hangs, I had two more bluescreens. One where the dump creation was 'about to' get started, but simply didn't.
Second time, I wasn't playing Tera by exception, but was actually watching a Youtube video. It actually yielded the familiar result of it slowly creating a dump file. Finally.
It should be included with this post.
I've upgraded my Graphic Card drivers, which didn't stop this thing from acting up.
It always seems to happen more frequently, the longer the laptop has been 'running'. (not counting crashes and reboots)
This made me think something was overheating. But touching the areas where it used to be overheat (before I was as informed about overheating) did not feel exceptionally hot, and even cleaning out the laptop yields no improvement.
Just this afternoon, I've ran a complete diagnostics on the Hardware using the built-in system Dell has for that. This yielded no result. Hardware seems fine.
I hope you can read the specs I filled in when signing up for an account. So you no longer need to ask that.
A final piece of information might be that the laptop is the Alienware M15X.
I've provided all the information I can give from the top of my head. If you require more, you are more than welcome to ask. Any response is better than none.
Help with solving this problem is very welcome, but I would also always like any suspected culprits/theories. To not go into details, I dabble in computers more than frequently, especially networks. However, BSOD's are very much a terrain for me that I've well experienced, but have not been quite taught well in.
a.k.a. Please share your wisdom, if possible.
Last edited by RJtheShadow; 03 May 2013 at 16:24.