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BSOD when playing demanding games, STOP: 0x0000007a
The BSOD says: KERNEL_DATA_INPAGE_ERROR
STOP: 0x0000007a (0x00....20, 0xFF...C000009D, 0xFF...A800DC20078, 0x00...0)
I think my problem started about 9 months ago, but now I started noticing it often because of new game(PlayerUnknown Battlegrounds) where it happens almost every time. When playing, after 2-20 minutes (but mostly right when the match starts) my PC will freeze. When I alt+tab it is just a black screen, can't ctrl+alt+delete. It will stay like this for about 3 minutes and then either PC starts responding again, or it reboots or I get this bluescreen(rarest).
I also had it happen in Witcher 3 and Fallout 4(and some others, randomly after 30 minutes), both being pretty demanding while Battlegrounds is also badly optimized.
5 full runs of Memtest (4/4) ran fine, I had a computer technician do some tests and everything including PSU seems to be fine. I checked my HDD with HD Tune and Data Lifeguard Diagnostics(Western Digital) and both quick and extended tests passed here twice, also included SMART data screenshots(and BSOD photo).
I suspect either HDD or motherboard to be faulty and these can't really be tested without replacements as far as I know. I was getting error in event viewer no.11 : "The driver detected a controller error on \Device\Ide\IdePort0." which was my HDD. I disconnected my CD-Rom, swapped their SATA cables and ports but that didn't help. I got rid of that error spam by connecting my HDD to the 3rd never used SATA.
I tested my GPU and CPU with different temperatures, ranging from 65-76 celcius under load (extra cooling, open/closed case) but that didn't change anything. I also know that GPU and CPU usage drop below 10% during the freeze.
I updated my BIOS to latest version but that didn't fix anything. Also tried many BIOS setting(not overclocking).
The weirdest thing is that when I ran both tests on my HDD with DLD utility, after those 2 hours I played the game for 5 hours straight without a freeze. But then the next day it happened again, even after running those tests again so it might be luck.
Edit1: Forgot to mention, after PC reboots itself (with or without BSOD) I have to turn it off because it doesn't see my HDD.
Any help would be appreciated, I was planning to just replace my HDD and hope for the best. This forum is my last chance :)
Last edited by Kemott; 18 Jul 2017 at 13:42.