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Self-built gaming PC having BSODs and freezes; can't pinpoint cause.
Hello,
Over the past few months I've gotten countless BSODs and freezes ( the screen freezes on whatever was last displayed and is accompanied with a buzzing noise in my headphones which I believe is the last sound played). The blue screens and crashes occur randomly While playing games, watching YouTube/Newgrounds videos, browsing the internet, while just idling on the desktop with only Skype running, and even a few times at the Windows login screen (happened only a few times, and repeatedly selecting "start Windows normally" after it kept giving a BSOD at login, it stopped crashing and I logged in normally), none of the crashes consistently happening during a certain activity.
I've done quite a bit of troubleshooting but I'm stumped, because the error reports don't point to the same thing most of the time. I've tried downgrading my graphics drivers, and then when that didn't fix the problem updating them to the latest version. I've monitored my hardware heat output with several programs and nothing seemed above acceptable levels, whether gaming or idle. I've scanned for viruses with Norton 360 and Malwarebytes and nothing was found. I ran MemTest86 for 18+ hours with no errors found. I've tested my hard drive for errors and defects and it appears healthy in both software and hardware.
Before anyone tells me to do so, I should mention I haven't tried removing one RAM stick or using another video card, but I plan to do so in the next few days; I'm just hoping someone can give me some useful info from the crash data while I do some physical troubleshooting, and maybe someone can even throw out some educated guesses as to what may be the cause of the errors.
I posted a topic on the Windows forums previously, but I wasn't really getting much help and it seemed like the guys on that forum were just spouting highly generic troubleshooting info and not anything specific to my problem. I do realize troubleshooting a computer is a process of elimination, but the guy I talked to was like a robot reading a list of responses. Please take a look at the topic here:
Please help! Can't figure out why computer keeps crashing! - Microsoft Community
And another forum I posted the same topic on:
Please help! Can't figure out why computer keeps crashing! - Homebuilt - Systems
My system specs can be found on my profile page; I filled out everything that I could.
I attached the SevenForums analyzer's report to this topic, but let me know if any additional info is required for troubleshooting. I had a lot more BSODs than just what's indicated in that folder (like "MEMORY_MANAGEMENT" crash etc.), but I accidentally deleted the dump files with CCleaner before I knew anything about dmp. files, so the ones in the folder are just the dmp. files created from the crashes I've had after a certain point (the system freezes leave no dump files and only show up under the reliability monitor as "windows was not properly shut down").
Any help is greatly appreciated!
I'll die of a stroke soon if I can't figure out the problem with my computer.
Last edited by Dem0nGam3r; 28 Mar 2013 at 03:21.