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Black Screen of Death or Black Gaming Screen of Death
Hi
My first time I had this BlackSOD problem was while playing BF3 , a few months ago, one day all good , next BlackSOD , the only way out, was a reboot , as keyboard and mouse where non- responsive. The only thing I had done was install an ATI 13.1 beta driver. I got rid of it and went for the normal one ATI driver 13.1
Since then I have come to suspect the drivers for ATI, ( now using 12.10 non Beta, tried ATI 13.1 ones still got the BlackSOD) & Razer deathadder when I was using the Synapse 2.0 version. I'm now using the legacy DeathAdder_driver_v3.05_Eng instead. Still getting BlackSOD.
But since I'm here posting , I would like know how to stop the BlackSOD. as would half the planet.
At this time 3/5/2013 my PC has been running for hours will out any problems , using the ATI 12.10 but last week , when I was using the ATI 13.1 drivers it took 6 attempts of trying to get the PC to stay ON.
As of the 3/5/2013 PC boots up with out any problems , Until of course I run anything like a GAME!. Then I can be certain a BlackSOD will happen at some point. like a few nights ago while playing BF3 for a few hours. BlackSOD in the middle of a game, The BF3 gamers nightmare!.
I tried to do an Up-grade using my Win 7 64 home , that is, keep all my stuff and let window re-install itself , but the Windows Compatibility Report comes but BLANK , only saying "An error prevented a required compliance check from completing. Cancel the installation and try upgrading again. " A clean install is something I don't want to do as yet, but that seem to be the path. unless there a FIX.
Things I have noticed, Black screen ,lol.
1) Synapse 2.0 after using their update button , my mouse had a bar not a pointer, Got rid of Synapse 2.0.
2) 1 long beep followed by 3 short one. Only heard it once. yep it's the graphics card , but here I'm posting, so it may not be. this only happens sometimes when tying to re-install the ATI driver software, NEVER when the PC starts & then goes into a BlackSOD. I get one beep saying ok , then BlackSOD after I have logged in , and start moving my mouse around and doing stuff. OR BlackSOD within seconds before I get to log in.
3) Plugging in my Razer usb headphones only sometimes the PC beeps , soon after BlackSOD. USB confilcts maybe?. Update: have move USB stuff around to different ports,
4) Strange Audio garble sometimes after the BSOD happens, Using the sabertooth On board RealTek. Have not installed the ATI HDMI audio.
Fixes so far
1) After the BF3 BSOD a few months back , I used a back up (Paragon Software Backup and Recovery 2012 Free) to re-install. System was stable for a while , but updating ATI dirvers and Razer brought the BlackSOD back. The Paragon backup is oldish so saving the important data now using Genie Time line pro.
2) Now using Atiman Uninstaller 7.0.2 to remove and then re-install ATI. Before I followed net directions deleting all by hand.
3) Auslogics BoostSpeed to clean and do what it does , Plus CC cleaner.
4) run SFC /scannow , only got to 47% , can't fix errors , which I suspect is the reason for the Compatibility Report & upgrade won't work, stuff that's missing is jpegs from window screensaver I guess , given what in the CBS log. plus desktop ini.
5) post here :)
Ps I don't suspect malware , as i have all the goodies to keep me safe ,plus I don't go near weird sites :) . unless Gaming and Nasa is weird .
Any help would be good cheers.
Update: Have install Afterburner, to controls fans , and last night after two hours of planetside2 system had another BlackSOD , inside the zip are files from system events logs from last night... This is the first time that the system has recorded, anything to events, expect to say , "system was shutdown unexpectedly" which is me doing a hard reboot. So progress :)
Have all the tools , and have set the dump files , ran Driver Verifier , didn't get a BlueSOD dump file no idea why.
Here are the two Error codes. generated by Driver Verifier copied form the BlueSOD.
0x000000c4 (0x00000000000000e1) 0xfffff9800195af9c 0x0000000000000000
Driver Verifier set up differently gave me this:
0x000000c9 0x000000000000021f 0xfffff88000ffd000 0xfffff980021b6e10 0x0000000000000000
ksbus64.sys fffff88000ffd000 base at fffff88000ff400 Datestamp 4e554ead
For ksbus64 I re-installed TotalMounter1.50.exe.
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*NOTE* My OS is not showing up in msconfig , nor where you configure system dumps. Was there at one point.
Hope this helps.
Last edited by sutex; 06 May 2013 at 09:50.