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BlueScreen due to older graphics card or motherboard
I'm currently using an older P4 motherboard ASUS P4S800D-X and Radeon 9800 AIW with Windows 7 Pro 32bit. Whenever I run a game for a certain length of time (usually a minute or two).. or something graphically intensive I get a blue screen error. I've tried just about every solution going.
- BIOS - newest is 2006
- Vista drivers for graphics installed in compatibility/administrator (9.11 currently)
- Turned down W7 graphics features
Games will play for a little while (Battlefield 2/2142) and then the system will lock up. Multitasking with graphics and Video will lock it up, or right into reboot. Upon reboot I'll get a Blue Screen Kernel-Power event id:6 (something about firmware needs to be updated for BIOS etc). Also a WHEA-Logger I just noticed in Event Viewer (Processor Core - Internal Timer Error).
"Some processor performance power management features have been disabled due to a known firmware problem. Check with the computer manufacturer for updated firmware." <-- That's the kernel power event.
None of this happens under Windows XP Pro under vigorous stress testing. I've tried all the power management settings in BIOS and 7 (performance mode). From what I've read on these forums, it's probably just better to give up as ASUS doesn't seem to be providing the BIOS required to work with Windows 7. It's just strange that it seems linked closely to graphics as opposed to all the warnings about processor. I've stress-tested the cpu and memory and they're fine. Again, graphics card is fine under Windows XP.
Any help would be greatly appreciated though.. but I'm close to giving up.