I have been getting BSOD often while playing skyrim and guild wars 2. I have done everything i thought possible (driver sweeper included) and i am still getting the same BSOD. i need some ideas
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It looks like the NVIDIA Graphics filter drivers are causing a problem. You may want to reinstall the drivers for your graphic card afresh first by uninstalling them from control panel then delete remnants of the drivers using Driver Sweeper again
For reference, go through this thread: STOP 0x116: VIDEO_TDR_ERROR troubleshootingCode:******************************************************************************* * * * Bugcheck Analysis * * * ******************************************************************************* Use !analyze -v to get detailed debugging information. BugCheck 116, {fffffa80072f8100, fffff88004779704, ffffffffc000009a, 4} Unable to load image \SystemRoot\system32\DRIVERS\nvkflt.sys, Win32 error 0n2 *** WARNING: Unable to verify timestamp for nvkflt.sys *** ERROR: Module load completed but symbols could not be loaded for nvkflt.sys Probably caused by : nvkflt.sys ( nvkflt+31704 ) Followup: MachineOwner --------- 7: kd> lmvm nvkflt start end module name fffff880`04748000 fffff880`04790000 nvkflt T (no symbols) Loaded symbol image file: nvkflt.sys Image path: \SystemRoot\system32\DRIVERS\nvkflt.sys Image name: nvkflt.sys Timestamp: Wed Oct 03 00:21:49 2012 (506B30BD) CheckSum: 0004E9FE ImageSize: 00048000 Translations: 0000.04b0 0000.04e4 0409.04b0 0409.04e4
i uninstalled my drivers using driver sweeper numerous times. i even tried reinstalling different versions on my card. It does not fix the problem
Are the game settings enhanced? Did you check the temps while gaming?
For monitoring the heat/celsius of the system, use Speccy or HWinfo:
My temps fine. Does the program pchealthboost really work? i see this as one of my last options
No, it does not work, specially it has nothing to do with Video TDR.
Can you tell us the temps? Anything over 60C is not fine.
The highest i saw it get was around 70. I thought about buying a cooling pad, but i really didnt think that was the cause of the blue screens. Alienware wants me to $120 dollare to repair, because they believe it is a software problem.
I can say that i have noticed i can play gw2 longer without a crash when i havnt played for alittle while. If i jump right back in after a crash, i get another one in about five minutes.
If you think it's a software problem, the best way to eliminate that is doing a clean install. Do it and see if the blue screen problems come back. Make sure you have the latest drivers for graphics card, chipset/motherboard drivers, get them from relevant manufacturers websites. Do not install anything tweaking stuff like you mentioned above this post.
Lower the games settings, enhancing them is probably putting the GPU in stress and causing the heat.
BTW, also like to know if this is a knew system and is under its warranty. Does the motherboard have an onboard VGA slot? You'd want to connect or switch to it and see if you're getting these BSODs.
The system is about six months old and is under only a hardware warranty. Apparently nothing is wrong with my hardware. How do I check for the vga on motherboard?
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