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Constant BSOD in the last few days
Hi
Its my first time here so if I make some mistakes, I'll apologize in advance.
To give a little bit of background before I get into the problem, I'm using a laptop (Lenovo Ideapad Z570 to be specific). I upgraded my OS to Win 10 in august but due to few missing drivers for certain components and other problems, I downgraded back to my original OS Win 7 home a few days back.
This just made things a lot more messy. Originally, my WiFi wasn't working (in Win 10) and the micro USB adapter I was using didn't have a driver for Win 10 either and it was causing a lot of BSOD (presumably). So I thought going back to Win 7 will fix that.
I had to re-install Smite (as I had removed it from my laptop prior to the upgrade) among other games and software and ever since then, whenever I load Smite, within a minute (say the time it takes to close the News window or open the login rewards page and redeem it) the laptop will have a BSOD. Most often it won't have the same error code though some are more frequent.
At first I thought it was a problem with my Laptop (maybe all those upgrade and downgrade screwed up my hardware, its after all a 4 year old Laptop), but the fact remains that I'm getting crashes only when Smite is involved. I was wondering if anyone here can help me out or shed some light on what is causing this. I'm really worried that this is a hardware problem because the laptop has started to make a lot of noise in the past few months (sounds like a fan as its near the exhaust port of the unit).
I've attached the file as per forum rules but I must mention that the system has very few crash reports because I often ended up force restarting the system in frustration. I apologize and I hope you have enough information in the files attached to diagnose the error.
Thanks
Andrew
PS: I also forgot to mention that I have this odd problem where Windows 7 keeps trying to install IE 11 (even though its already installed) and fails with some error code 9C something. So I went and hid that update in the list of available updates. Tried to un-install IE 11 and re-install it but can't even find it in the list of installed features, so I gave up as I don't ever use it. Just thought to mention it if in case its the culprit here.