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BSOD while playing different videogames.
Hello, kind people of Seven Forums. I’m here with hopes of obtain some kind of insight about the BSOD problem I’m having.
About the BSOD:
- The problem started almost three months ago.
- Most of the time, the BSOD appears while playing videogames. It doesn’t matter if it’s a recent game, or a game from 1990. (Even if the system is a bit outdated, as you will see on the Dump Files, I neved had difficulties running any game from recent years prior to this.)
- The timing of the BSOD tends to be random. Sometimes I can play a couple of hours before the BSOD, sometimes it appears after just two or three minutes.
- I had BSODs while not running any game. I can recall two specific times: one, while working on an Excel document; the other, while browsing the web on Mozilla Firefox. BSOD while not playing is, however, a very rare occurrence. (These are activities that I do normally without any problem, even now.)
- At the time of the first BSOD, no new hardware was installed, and I’ve never overclocked anything (that I’m aware of) on this system.
- I’ve got many different kinds of BSOD. I’m attaching to this post five Dump Files of five different BSOD (with errors like "REFERENCE_BY_POINTER", "SYSTEM_SERVICE_EXCEPTION", "DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL", "PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA" and "INTERRUPT_EXCEPTION_NOT_HANDLED"). As the language of my Windows is spanish, some of the information on the Dump Files is on spanish. If translation of any data is required, just ask and I will provide it.
What I’ve tried so far:
- Changed the hard disk. The old one was from a cheap brand, so I got a new one around a month ago. The BSOD problem persisted. It may be worthy to say that I installed the same Windows Seven I had on the old hard disk.
- Downloaded the most recent version of my graphic card’s drivers.
- Cleaned the CPU recently.
- Disabled the on-board audio from BIOS. (I read somewhere that audio errors could cause BSODs.)
- Ran 8 passes of Memtest86+ and didn’t get any errors.
- Ran 7 passes of the Windows Memory Diagnostics Tool (extended) and didn’t get any errors.
- Checked the temperature of the system regularly. Sometimes the temperatures were a bit high, but not as high as to cause any major problem, I think.
I’ve read that FurMark, the MG Video Memory Stress Test and the Hardware Stress Test with Prime95 are also recommended for this kind of situation, but I prefer to run them only if necessary (or if a hardware or GPU problem is suspected).
Thank you very much in advance for any suggestions!