Windows 7: Hardware Video Error


  1. marcomax1997
    Posts : 1
    Windows 7
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    Windows 7: Hardware Video Error


    Greetings.

    Recently I have come across "Hardware Video" errors. I sure hope this isn't anything serious as I haven't seen freezes, orveating issues or any blue screens since it started to happen'.

    I'm on a 2011 Toshiba core i3 laptop that has an nvdia 315 graphics card. Two years ago I updated the nvidia drivers, which was a really bad decision.


    Name of the problem: LiveKernelEvent
    SO Version: 6.1.7601.2.1.0.768.3

    WD-20160111-2251.dmp
    sysdata.xml
    WERInternalMetadata.xml

    Additional info:
    BCCode: 117
    BCP1: FFFFFA80042284E0
    BCP2: FFFFF8800F42393C
    BCP3: 0000000000000000
    BCP4: 0000000000000000
    OS Version: 6_1_7601
    Service Pack: 1_0
    Product: 768_1


    My laptop is of great importance to me. I've put four years of my life and work into this machine. I have valuable work for me here. Losing all of this would really, really be a BAD thing to me. Do I need to worry? Should I start backing up some of the files somewhere?
    Last edited by marcomax1997; 12 Jan 2016 at 12:14. Reason: Add. info
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  3. Mellon Head
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    You should always be backing up your data, regardless of the hardware state of your machine. Hard drives frequently go bad without warning.

    As for the laptop, the video card might be going bad. 4 years is old for a laptop in most cases. It might be getting time where you have to replace it.

    But in any case, back up your data anyway.
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