BSOD Regularly during gaming

hawkeyedds · 11 Apr 2012

32bit Windows 7 Ultimate (Reinstalled a week ago)
Bought all of the hardware individually around February 2009

I put the computer together in Feb 2009 and it worked fine for the first few months then during any video game and youtube video it would freeze, display horizontal colored bars across the screen, then BSOD and reboot. It started out infrequently(once weekly) but increased as time went by(every 5-10 minutes of game time). I gave up on the computer but recently tried to get it going again. I cleared everything and reinstalled the OS fresh. For the first week it was working great with no crashes and now it started to have the same symptoms about an hour into the game(Which currently is Crusader Kings II).

-ASUS VH226H Black 21.5" 2ms(GTG) HDMI Widescreen LCD Monito r
-LG 22X DVD±R DVD Burner Black SATA Model GH22NS30 - OEM
-Broadway Com Corp 939PL-BLACK Steel ATX Mid Tower Computer Case Okia ATX 550W Power Supply
-HITACHI Deskstar P7K500 HDP725050GLA360 (0A35415) 500GB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" -Internal Hard Drive -Bare Drive HIS H487F1GP Radeon HD 4870 1GB 256-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready CrossFireX Support Video Card
-ASRock A780GXE/128M AM2+/AM2 AMD 780G ATX AMD Motherboard
-PC Power and Cooling S75CF 750W EPS12V SLI Certified CrossFire Ready 80 PLUS Certified Active PFC Power Supply
-OCZ Reaper HPC 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 1066 (PC2 8500) Dual Channel Kit Desktop Memory
-AMD Athlon 64 X2 6400+ Windsor 3.2GHz Socket AM2 125W Dual-Core Processor ADX6400CZBOX

Thank you for the help.

zigzag3143 · 11 Apr 2012

These were related to the amdk8.sys driver. When the processor drivers are listed as the probable cause it usually signifies a processor fault. You can attempt to confirm this by running a CPU stress test CPU - Stress Test with Prime95 - (run the Blend test as well as the SmallFFTs test)

Try this free stress test: Free Software - GIMPS

Prime95 Setup:
- extract the contents of the zip file to a location of your choice
- double click on the executable file
- select "Just stress testing"
- select the "Blend" test. If you've already run MemTest overnight you may want to run the "Small FFTs" test instead.
- "Number of torture test threads to run" should equal the number of CPU's times 2 (if you're using hyperthreading).
The easiest way to figure this out is to go to Task Manager...Performance tab - and see the number of boxes under CPU Usage History
Then run the test for 6 to 24 hours - or until you get errors (whichever comes first).
The Test selection box and the stress.txt file describes what components that the program stresses.

hawkeyedds · 13 Apr 2012

Tried the blend test and it blue screened within 5 minutes and I had to use a previous restore point to reboot my computer back. I'm thinking I will update BIOS and if that fails find a CPU and try it out. If you guys can think of anything more effective let me know. Thanks for the help.

zigzag3143 · 13 Apr 2012

hawkeyedds said:

Tried the blend test and it blue screened within 5 minutes and I had to use a previous restore point to reboot my computer back. I'm thinking I will update BIOS and if that fails find a CPU and try it out. If you guys can think of anything more effective let me know. Thanks for the help.

If I run into anything I will let you know. Let us know if you need help.