Supposed BSOD playing many games, error 0x8080000000000000

I've been having crashes for going on two weeks now. During game play of many different games (WoW, SC2, L4D2, HAWX, the list goes on) as well as one or two whilst just watching media (Netflix in full screen, Itunes in full screen, and VLC in full screen).

At first I thought it may be a overheating problem so I reduced the settings on some of the games and monitored the temps up to a crash none of which were even near the "red zone". What seems to be odd about these crashes is that the BSOD is never actually displayed. The system freezes, most of the time the speakers or headphones emit a buzzing noise and then it restarts itself after a few minutes. The most recent crash, a crash while just loading the desktop, recovering from a crash of the same nature while playing WoW has even further baffled me.

The system is fairly new, it's a Asus G53jw-A1 I got it in January of this year. It's running Home Premium 64bit which came pre-installed and licensed.

Synec113 said:

I've been having crashes for going on two weeks now. During game play of many different games (WoW, SC2, L4D2, HAWX, the list goes on) as well as one or two whilst just watching media (Netflix in full screen, Itunes in full screen, and VLC in full screen).

At first I thought it may be a overheating problem so I reduced the settings on some of the games and monitored the temps up to a crash none of which were even near the "red zone". What seems to be odd about these crashes is that the BSOD is never actually displayed. The system freezes, most of the time the speakers or headphones emit a buzzing noise and then it restarts itself after a few minutes. The most recent crash, a crash while just loading the desktop, recovering from a crash of the same nature while playing WoW has even further baffled me.

The system is fairly new, it's a Asus G53jw-A1 I got it in January of this year. It's running Home Premium 64bit which came pre-installed and licensed.

Virtually all of these were related to pci.sys. Since that is an OS file you may be able to repair it by running a system file check

Has anything changed on the pci bus of late (ie a new card, etc)?


Run a system file check to verify and repair your system files.
To do this type cmd in search, then right click to run as administrator, then
SFC /SCANNOW

Read here for more information SFC /SCANNOW Command - System File Checker

Let us know the results from the report at the end.

The report did not find any integrity violations. Although I can upload the file if needed.

Nothing hardware related has changed in the past several months. The problems did arise around the time I updated to new drivers (I couldn't remember if it was before or after) but I have reverted back to the drivers I know I was using prior to the issue and it still persists so I have again updated to the freshest drivers.

Synec113 said:

The report did not find any integrity violations. Although I can upload the file if needed.

Nothing hardware related has changed in the past several months. The problems did arise around the time I updated to new drivers (I couldn't remember if it was before or after) but I have reverted back to the drivers I know I was using prior to the issue and it still persists so I have again updated to the freshest drivers.

Ok it is related to pci.sys since SFC passed it may not be software but rather hardware. Do you have any cards that are PCI?

I have an extra PCI card or two laying around somewhere, but as this is a laptop I don't know anyway to test the hardware other than sending it back to the company