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Seemingly random BSOD's.
Hey all, I've got problems with reoccuring BSOD's so I hoped I could find some help here as I don't know what to do anymore.
I'll try to make this post as detailed and clear as possible. :)
The problem:
I've started getting BSOD's at seemingly random times and I do not know what's causing this.
BSOD's usually occur when I'm gaming but that could be a coincidence as I pretty much only game when my PC is on.
Most BSOD's happened while playing Counter-Strike: Global Offensive but after tweaking some game settings it has no longer occured.
I've had a BSOD happen right when I clicked restart now as I wanted to fix a problem with Arma 2 (DayZ).
What I've tried:
- Uninstalled Hola, this was (one of?) the first BSOD's and I didn't need Hola anymore so I just removed it, sadly enough BSOD's kept coming.
- Used Driver Verifier which leaded to the multiple bluescreens (always pointing to HIDclass.sys) of which only 2 got a dump, at 26/07/2013.
Using DV made me go into a constant loop of BSOD'ing at "Starting Windows" until I disabled DV in Safe Mode.- Ran Memtest86+ 4.20, 3 passes, no errors.
- Ran chkdsk /f on both my HDD and SSD, no errors.
Useful(?) information:
- The day the first BSOD happened (19/7) I did not install anything but my Adobe Flash Player updated to 11.8.800.94
- The next 4 BSOD's all occured on 22/7, all of them happened while playing Counter-Strike: Global Offensive in less than 15 minutes of gametime.
I have since tried a lot of things as I thought the problem was only CS:GO related as that really triggered them fast.
I had 3 (if I remember correctly) more bluescreens until the changes I made caused it to not occur while playing CS:GO anymore (or not yet).- 4 more BSOD's occured after I (think I) fixed the ones that happen while playing CS:GO, these 4 times I was not playing CS:GO, though.
- The time I got a BSOD after clicking restart was at 21:12 (2/8), I had no games opened (which is when most BSOD's happened).
- At 5:09 (3/8) I had a BSOD while playing Smite, I alt-tabbed to Skype and back to Smite and right after tabbing back it tossed a BSOD.
- I don't remember having a BSOD before the ones in the minidumps, my last Windows install should be in January, when I bought my SSD.
I bought my PC in october/november 2010 though, with no BSODs I can remember.- I've 2 monitors, which I've been using since november 2010, without any problems other than a few game compatibility problems.
That's all I can think of now, I may have missed something/made silly mistakes as it's 7:55 AM without having slept.
I have the SF Diagnostic Tools grabs in the attachments.
I hope I gave enough information, if not, please feel free to ask and I shall try my best to supply more information.
Thanks in advance.
With kind regards,
Bert.
Last edited by Mztic; 03 Aug 2013 at 09:55.