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Chronic BSODs when playing mid to high-end games
I went to Microcenter almost exactly a year ago, and with their help bought an entire PC piece by piece. I can't remember exactly when it started happening (I think it was from the 2nd or 3rd day) but I started getting BSODs when playing Arma 3 (high end game). I figured it was some software or driver issue so I just ignored it. In the past few months I have been trying to fix the issue, I even formatted windows and installed every driver disk I have + downloaded updated drivers but I still got a BSOD within 3 days - so I am pretty sure this isn't a driver issue. When I play a lot (like on a Saturday) I will get two or three.
Most of the time it is while I am playing a high end game, or closing a high end game. I can leave my computer running at the desktop for days on end and 9 times out of 10 I don't have a problem. I just ran Windows Memory Diagnostics Tool and it found no problems. I have ran other 3rd party tools that test memory and didn't find any issues either. The minidumps I have so far are as follows:
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INTERRUPT_EXCEPTION_NOT_HANDLED
SYSTEM_SERVICE_EXCEPTION
DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL
DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL
SYSTEM_SERVICE_EXCEPTION
IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL
DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL
All except for the blank minidump list ntoskrnl.exe as a Address In Stack.
Also, my GPU runs at about mid 70s Celsius when playing games..
Cany anyone please help me?? I am so frustrated...spent nearly 2k and the computer BSODs all the time! I appreciate any help I can get...
Thanks,
Paul