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Seemingly random BSODs and freezes
Running 64 bit Windows 7 Home Premium, I've started having both BSODs and freezes. The computer is a laptop by Sony (Vaio VGN-FW465J) that is about 3.5 years old.
The most recent changes to my computer before these began were installing/beginning to play Guild Wars 2 and obtaining a new Razer Abyssus mouse. I went through a few incorrect drivers before finding one that worked for the mouse (originally tried installing Synapse 2.0, thinking Abyssus was compatible, but it could never recognize it. I also found another driver from Razer's site that didn't work before I grabbed one that did. Possibly related?).
After those things (maybe three or four weeks ago), my computer began getting BSODs. I've tried googling the errors a few times to no avail, but I didn't think to write them down. I will try to add them here once it happens again. The computer restarts, generally booting without any signs something was wrong beyond the standard 'unexpected shutdown, do you want safemode?' screen. Two or three times, however, it has done memory checks- I don't think it found anything, but my technical knowledge doesn't really include much about that sort of thing.
Crashes seem random in nature. Some occur right after I start a game. Some occur in the middle of me playing a game. Some happen when all I have running is Skype and netflix. Some occur soon after startup (~10mins after), and sometimes I can have my computer running for 8 hours straight without problems. Generally I get a crash every day or two.
Most of these crashes are, as I said, BSODs. Some, however, are something I've not previously seen on Windows 7: freezes. First programs will stop doing whatever they're doing, but I'll be able to click to cycle through which is in front. Then I will no longer be able to click, but will be able to still move the mouse; finally, all mouse and keyboard control disappears, leaving me with just my screen showing me a snapshot of what had been going on. I've tried leaving this for ~1 hour without it returning to a normal state, so each time it's happened I've had to use the button on the laptop to shut it down, causing the same 'windows shut down unexpectedly' screen as in a normal crash.
I came here a week or so ago and tried following the directions about having dumps produced on crash, but for some reason they have not worked. I have never seen a MEMORY.DMP file in C:\Windows, and my minidump folder only has three things from before the problem started. Here is an image of my settings:
I did run the SF Diagnostic Tool as the post instructed, but it took 3 attempts before I could do so without a crash, and on that third attempt a crash occurred when the program seemed (?) to be finished. This is the only thing I can think of so far that has regularly caused crashes. I have uploaded the results of that, as requested.
I actually recently ordered a new computer anyways since this one was getting old- I got it during the summer of 2009. Despite this, I would certainly prefer that I could find a fix for this issue so that I could continue using this computer for other things- aside from this, it has been working well recently, in general.
If there is any other information I forgot, I'll try to post it as soon as possible. Thanks in advance for looking over all this!
Edit: Didn't link the image correctly, fixed it.