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Complete lock up (No BSOD) while playing games
Ive been playing Final Fantasy 11 for many years, and for ~2 years on my current laptop (Dell XPS15; Windows 7 Home Premium 64x)
I never get a full BSOD, (so no dumps), but it does freeze completely. By completely I mean that the display stays on, the mouse stops moving, no response to any keyboard combination, if sound is playing the note hangs but keeps going. This happens within 5ish minutes of actually doing anything in game, or ~20min of standing around doing nothing in the game.
This doesn't happen while streaming videos or regular internet browsing.
I've downloaded recent drivers for my laptop and video card, disc defrag, ran some antivirus scans, and did Dell's diagnostic tests. The diagnostic test did come up with something about a PCI Express error, but I ran it again today so I could tell you exactly what it said, but if found no error today (sigh).
Any thoughts on the issue? Tests I could run?
Thank you