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Freezes while playing minecraft and a recent bsod(0x000000d1)
Hello all. Sorry for wall of text but I want to give as much info as possible.
I don't remember what I was doing while I had the bsod on the 17th July, but I remember the system freezing twice while playing the game Minecraft. I have had this computer over a year and have played Minecraft for a long time without problems though. The freezes only started recently, after the bsod perhaps.
Description of freeze: Minecraft will freeze then turn white after a little while, I will still be able to move my cursor but nothing I click on will work.
The first freeze I had, I pressed the reset button, but it was very slow to load, didn't get to the motherboard logo screen before I pushed the power button to turn it off. It first displays numbers very fast at bottom right(this is normal) and hanged at A2(before I turned it off). Then computer was fine for days.
The second freeze, I waited and after maybe 5 minutes, there was a blue screen, but it had no error code. It said it was collecting bug report info or something(took a long time about it too, I'm not sure if it got anything) and it suggested I try a windows repair. When it had finished, my computer restarted, but it was slow again, but I waited this time, and it failed to boot and gave a screen I don't remember, probably suggesting fixes. Actually I think it said it failed to boot because a file was missing(didn't give file name I don't think). Maybe that was the screen that suggested a repair.
So i tried inserting the win7 dvd and selecting language and clicking repair my install. It gave me a weird message saying it was incompatible with my windows, yet it is the same disc I used to install windows.
I tried googling the incompatible windows dvd and someone suggested the boot order in the BIOS needs to have your windows hard drive as the primary boot option for repair to work. I looked in BIOS and it says UEFI hard drive as the first boot option. Idk if this is my primary/windows drive(I have two) which is an SSD, but I know my other drive was listed later, so i doubt it's my second drive. I just wonder if there is some sort of problem with it since the BIOS isn't giving me it's actual name, just UEFI hard drive w/e that is.
System spec.:
Processor: Intel Core i5-3570k 3.4GHz
Installed memory (RAM): 8GB
System type 64-bit Operating System(windows 7 Home premium)
Graphics card: Nvidia GeForce GTX 660
Primary hard drive(windows): Samsung SSD 840 PRO Series
Secondary hard drive: I forget
Optical drive: LG super multi dvd-RW
Motherboard: Z77A-GD65 Gaming(MSI)
Sound: Sound Blaster Z
Antivirus: Kaspersky Internet Security 2014
Thanks very much if you took the time to read, I appreciate it.
I'm very worried because after the freezes, it seemed like the problems continued all through the blue screen and restart process, seems serious.