BSOD while playing Minecraft

Hello SevenForums,

I put Minecraft on a clean install of Windows 7 Professional x64 and proceeded to fire it up for a bit of fun. The game ran for about a minute and froze up, the screen had red "squiggly" lines about it for about 15-20 seconds then it moved to BSOD stating something about a video driver. I checked to ensure I had the latest drivers for my vid card (which I didn't at the time) and updated it. The same thing happened after firing it up again, it lasted about a minute and crashed in the same manor. I will admit that I'm not a professional myself when it comes to drivers, so perhaps I updated it wrong (didn't remove the previous version properly before updating) or perhaps I didn't do something else?

Anyway, system specs:

As stated OS: Windows 7 Professional x64 build 7600 - only OS on this drive ever and is the full retail version.

CPU: AMD Phenom 9950 Quad-Core Processor 2.6GHz

Motherboard: MSI 785GT-E63

Memory: 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 1066 (PC2 8500)

Graphics Card: NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GT

Hard drive: Seagate Barracuda

...Really don't know if this is overkill or not, but there it is. This system (to me) is older than I would like to be running but the motherboard had to be replaced a few months back (why I'm stuck with the MSI board) as the old one killed over on me.

I have attached the BSOD information I got from Windows NT6 BSOD and perfmon /report information to this post.

Thanks in advance for any insight to this problem,

Gorgatron

Gorgatron said:

Hello SevenForums,

I put Minecraft on a clean install of Windows 7 Professional x64 and proceeded to fire it up for a bit of fun. The game ran for about a minute and froze up, the screen had red "squiggly" lines about it for about 15-20 seconds then it moved to BSOD stating something about a video driver. I checked to ensure I had the latest drivers for my vid card (which I didn't at the time) and updated it. The same thing happened after firing it up again, it lasted about a minute and crashed in the same manor. I will admit that I'm not a professional myself when it comes to drivers, so perhaps I updated it wrong (didn't remove the previous version properly before updating) or perhaps I didn't do something else?

Anyway, system specs:

As stated OS: Windows 7 Professional x64 build 7600 - only OS on this drive ever and is the full retail version.

CPU: AMD Phenom 9950 Quad-Core Processor 2.6GHz

Motherboard: MSI 785GT-E63

Memory: 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 1066 (PC2 8500)

Graphics Card: NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GT

Hard drive: Seagate Barracuda

...Really don't know if this is overkill or not, but there it is. This system (to me) is older than I would like to be running but the motherboard had to be replaced a few months back (why I'm stuck with the MSI board) as the old one killed over on me.

I have attached the BSOD information I got from Windows NT6 BSOD and perfmon /report information to this post.

Thanks in advance for any insight to this problem,

Gorgatron

This one was Related to nvlddmkm.sys nVidia Display Driver.. Please re-install with newest available using this method.

Since yours is fairly current you may have to roll back a couple of revs to a stable version


Also of note I would remove Avast and replace with Microsoft Security Essentials

http://files.avast.com/files/eng/aswclear5.exe

Virus, Spyware & Malware Protection | Microsoft Security Essentials

Just wanted to update this and let everyone know that the problem was the video card itself. I attempted the nvlddmkm.sys fix and the same thing would happen. I then started to get the video errors when just loading into windows, so I opened up the case to check on the video card. Even after being off for the night when I tested it this morning (10 min after being on) it was hot to the touch. I didn't bother with any internal temp readings and just removed the card and drivers for it and went with on board chipset. So far I haven't had any trouble after card removal, so thanks for the help zigzag3143 and good luck to you other BSOD'ers.

My pleasure and glad you are working. Thanks for the update it will help others.