Solved BSOD while playing pretty much any game, 0x000000c4

[Haips]

Hello and merry Christmas!

I've been having issues with my graphics card drivers and windows crashing since Windows update updated my display driver at the end of November.

I tried muckering about with driver verifier, though with it enabled windows crashes way before i can login and it seems it's not dumping anything.

I've attached all the normal minidumps though if anyone can figure out anything from those.
The crashes started on 30th nov, though for some reason the dumps from the first two crashes on 30.nov, and 3rd dec are missing.

Any help would be appreciated.

EDIT: Forgot to mention that i have tried older, beta and reinstalling the latest drivers for my GFX Card , none of those made any difference.

 

[w1dpc]

post your computer specs. without that info not much help can be given

 

[Haips]

post your computer specs. without that info not much help can be given

It's in the zip.

 

[Layback Bear]

This will be of some help.
http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/180324-system-info-see-your-system-specs.html

 

[Haips]

This will be of some help.
http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/180324-system-info-see-your-system-specs.html

They're ALL in the zip...

 

[Layback Bear]

Okay lets try this. We do not go looking through a bunch of zip looking for specs.
If you do it as requested your specs will be in the lower left of your every post. Any one trying to help will just have to tick My System Specs in your post. Please tick My System Specs in this post and you will see what I mean.
Have a nice day.

 

[Haips]

Okay lets try this. We do not go looking through a bunch of zip looking for specs.
If you do it as requested your specs will be in the lower left of your every post. Any one trying to help will just have to tick My System Specs in your post. Please tick My System Specs in this post and you will see what I mean.
Have a nice day.

I'm sorry, shoud have read it bit more carefully, thought you linked the SF Diag tool, i can understand why people would be wary of opening random zips uploaded by unknown people... It's done now however.

And i might add that i just updated my chipset drivers and flashed my bios.. and there was a problem with the bios, the first flashing failed, it didnt boot up, just kept giving me "Reading failed!" error untill i removed all devices except my keyboard, then i was able to enter the flash utility again and flash the bios again, and on the second try it worked... was slightly worried there for a minute.

 

[clicky]

I'm having almost the same issues, and with exactly the same GPU. I don't know if that's a fluke or it's something about this particular GPU.

 

[Haips]

I'm having almost the same issues, and with exactly the same GPU. I don't know if that's a fluke or it's something about this particular GPU.

I've heard that the bios in MSI's GTX560 Ti had too low voltage that caused some trouble with some people, i've raised mine by 0.012 but it didn't work obviously. If you're brave enough, download nvidia inspector and raise yours by a bit more.

 

[clicky]

Hmmm....that's interesting. I've been having these BSOD's recently, and almost tried everything, reformatted twice and updated drivers, but none worked. So, I'm currently thinking of buying a new GPU as I think that it might be a faulty GPU, but still not sure though.

As for the voltage, I'm not really an expert, so I don't want to mess with that xD, but I do have MSI afterburner and it says that the voltage is currently at 987.

 

[Haips]

Hmmm....that's interesting. I've been having these BSOD's recently, and almost tried everything, reformatted twice and updated drivers, but none worked. So, I'm currently thinking of buying a new GPU as I think that it might be a faulty GPU, but still not sure though.

As for the voltage, I'm not really an expert, so I don't want to mess with that xD, but I do have MSI afterburner and it says that the voltage is currently at 987.

Yeah, that sounds pretty low, mine is at 1.012, so that should still be well in the safe limits, afaik you can't really raise it too much with inspector, the max is 1.150

But anyhoo... with my voltage and clocks the GPU temperature stays under 80c at full load, so it's far from "too high".

 

[clicky]

Hmmmm....I might actually go for it. What's considered to be a safe voltage? it's 987v now.

 

[Haips]

Hmmmm....I might actually go for it. What's considered to be a safe voltage? it's 987v now.

I wouldn't go past 1.1, but then again i'm always too gentle with my components Go up by one increment at a time and run furmark or something to see if it's stable and not overheating, anything higher than 85c after 10mins under full load would be too high imho.

 

[clicky]

Btw, have you tried updating your mobo's bios? I gotta say it really did solve a lot of issues after I updated the BIOS, so if you haven't done that, you might wanna give it a try.

 

[Haips]

Btw, have you tried updating your mobo's bios? I gotta say it really did solve a lot of the issues after I updated the BIOS, so if you haven't done that, you might wanna give it a try.

Just did it a few hours ago, as i mentioned in an earlier post, latest version is only little over a month old, came out in November this year. Cant really tell if it made any difference yet. And yeah last time i flashed my bios few months ago cause AHCI mode wasn't working properly. Anyway, i'm off to bed, i'll update the situation in a few days after i do some test to see if the chipset and bios update made any difference.

 

[Haips]

Well it's been over two weeks and not a single crash, guess i'll mark this "Solved" then.