Hey all, thanks for taking the time to read this
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about an hour ago I tried logging back into wow for the first time in a long time, and noticed come graphical bugs at a distance at the boundaries between surfaces. I attempted to tweak the graphics settings a little bit to see if it would fix it, and immediately got a BSOD w/ the error listed in the title. I tried to reboot multiple times and couldn't get past the windows log-in screen without going into safe mode, which is how I'm posting this thread.
System Specs are essentially stock Dell XPS 15 L502x w/ Sandy Bridge specs (i.e. i7 2630QM @ 2.0 GHz, 6 GB ram, running Windows 7 64 Bit Home Premium). The computer is only about a year old, and I have never reinstalled the OS. The only "under the hood" modification I've made to the computer is too replace the Intel 1000 b/g/n wireless card with a Bigfoot Killer Wireless-N wifi card. That installation also caused a BSOD, so I had to use system restore to go back to before when I installed the card, deleted some Intel PRO/Set software that I thought might be causing the problem, and the computer was working fine until this new issue popped up.
Looking through these forums, it seems like you guys are wizards; thanks in advance for any help you can provide
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I also tried to run a perfmon /report as directed in the sticky, but whenever I did I got a "could not find x at path specified error" (maybe b/c I'm running in safe mode?), so hopefully the information provided in the dump file should be enough.
Also, in case it matters, I installed a zip utility (32-bit 7zip) *after* running jcgriff's dump collector utility, hopefully it won't affect anything significant.
about an hour ago I tried logging back into wow for the first time in a long time, and noticed come graphical bugs at a distance at the boundaries between surfaces. I attempted to tweak the graphics settings a little bit to see if it would fix it, and immediately got a BSOD w/ the error listed in the title. I tried to reboot multiple times and couldn't get past the windows log-in screen without going into safe mode, which is how I'm posting this thread.
System Specs are essentially stock Dell XPS 15 L502x w/ Sandy Bridge specs (i.e. i7 2630QM @ 2.0 GHz, 6 GB ram, running Windows 7 64 Bit Home Premium). The computer is only about a year old, and I have never reinstalled the OS. The only "under the hood" modification I've made to the computer is too replace the Intel 1000 b/g/n wireless card with a Bigfoot Killer Wireless-N wifi card. That installation also caused a BSOD, so I had to use system restore to go back to before when I installed the card, deleted some Intel PRO/Set software that I thought might be causing the problem, and the computer was working fine until this new issue popped up.
Looking through these forums, it seems like you guys are wizards; thanks in advance for any help you can provide
I also tried to run a perfmon /report as directed in the sticky, but whenever I did I got a "could not find x at path specified error" (maybe b/c I'm running in safe mode?), so hopefully the information provided in the dump file should be enough.
Also, in case it matters, I installed a zip utility (32-bit 7zip) *after* running jcgriff's dump collector utility, hopefully it won't affect anything significant.
My Computer
At a glance
Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bitIntel Core i7-2630QM @ 2.00 GHz6.00 GB (5.90 GB usable)NVidia Gforce 525M
- Computer Manufacturer/Model Number
- Dell XPS 15 w/ Sandy Bridge (l502x)
- OS
- Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit
- CPU
- Intel Core i7-2630QM @ 2.00 GHz
- Motherboard
- ???
- Memory
- 6.00 GB (5.90 GB usable)
- Graphics Card(s)
- NVidia Gforce 525M
- Sound Card
- Onboard Realtek Audio
- Monitor(s) Displays
- Built-in 1080p display
- Screen Resolution
- 1080p
- Hard Drives
- ST9500420AS (built-in, 7200 rpm, 4500 GB)
- PSU
- Built-in
- Case
- Built-in
- Cooling
- Built-in
- Keyboard
- Built-in
- Mouse
- Logitech AnywhereMX
- Internet Speed
- Comcast BLAST (abt. 35Mbps down, 5Mbps up)
- Other Info
- The computer is essentially stock, except I've switched out the stock Intel 1000 b/g/n Wifi card with a Killer Wireless-N around 9/24/11.