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Intermittent BSOD - STOP: 0x0000007E Possibly hardware issue
My computer is crashing with a BSOD intermittently. I can't do anything to reliably reproduce it, it just happens seemingly randomly. It seems to happen every other day. Most of the time it happens when I play the game Medieval II: Total War, but I've gone entire sessions for hours without it happening too. It also happened today when watching videos on steam.
I reinstalled Windows 7 (Home Premium 64 bit edition) very recently about 2 weeks ago. I don't have any hardware that's listed as unknown or missing its driver in the Device Manager.
The error looked like this (I took a picture but I don't want to type the whole thing here):
A problem has been detected and windows has been shut down to prevent damage to your computer.
If this is the first time you've seen this Stop error screen, restart your computer. If this screen appears again, follow these steps:
Technical information:
*** STOP: 0x0000007E (0XFFFFFFFFC0000005,0xFFFFF80002C6EBD6,0xFFFFF880031B6688,0xFFFFF880031B5EE0)
I'm hoping the dump file I attached will be sufficient.
Any help is appreciated, Thanks.
System Configuration:
Alienware Aurora R3
CPU: Intel Core i5-2300 (2.8GHz)
GPU: GeForce GTX 560 Ti
HD: 320GB Western Digital 7200RPM
RAM: 8GB Dual Channel DDR3 at 1333M Hz (4 sticks of 2 GB)
Sound Card: Sound Blaster X-Fi Xtreme Audio
DVD Burner: 24X CD/DVD burner (DVD+/-RW)
OS: Windows 7 (Home Premium 64-bit)