Solved BSOD playing games(UT3, Tribes:Ascend etc) Graphics or hardware issue?

[Shauner]

Hi,

I am posting since I have an issue with my computer as you may have guessed.
I use an Alienware M15x with nVidia GeForce GTX 260M, 4GB RAM and i7 Q 740 1.73 GHz octacore processor.
The issue I have is that whenever I start a game, such as Unreal Tournament 3 or Tribes: Ascend the game launches fine, however 5-10 minutes into a game, the display crashes and freezes. This happens almost 100% of the time, on other occasions I can play the game peacefully but this is very rare.

From time to time, the computer Blue Screens aswell, and I have 3 bluescreen messages.

Problem signature:
Problem Event Name: BlueScreen
OS Version: 6.1.7601.2.1.0.768.3
Locale ID: 2057

Additional information about the problem:
BCCode: 1000007e
BCP1: FFFFFFFFC0000005
BCP2: FFFFF80002CB5C35
BCP3: FFFFF88003585698
BCP4: FFFFF88003584EF0
OS Version: 6_1_7601
Service Pack: 1_0
Product: 768_1

Files that help describe the problem:
C:\Windows\Minidump\010112-21013-01.dmp
C:\Users\Sean\AppData\Local\Temp\WER-110433-0.sysdata.xml





Problem signature:
Problem Event Name: BlueScreen
OS Version: 6.1.7601.2.1.0.768.3
Locale ID: 2057

Additional information about the problem:
BCCode: 116
BCP1: FFFFFA800790C140
BCP2: FFFFF8800FEEEAA4
BCP3: FFFFFFFFC000009A
BCP4: 0000000000000004
OS Version: 6_1_7601
Service Pack: 1_0
Product: 768_1

Files that help describe the problem:
C:\Windows\Minidump\061012-26816-01.dmp
C:\Users\Sean\AppData\Local\Temp\WER-92180-0.sysdata.xml




Problem signature:
Problem Event Name: BlueScreen
OS Version: 6.1.7601.2.1.0.768.3
Locale ID: 2057

Additional information about the problem:
BCCode: ab
BCP1: 0000000000000001
BCP2: 0000000000000210
BCP3: 0000000000000000
BCP4: 0000000000000002
OS Version: 6_1_7601
Service Pack: 1_0
Product: 768_1

Files that help describe the problem:
C:\Windows\Minidump\021312-23103-01.dmp
C:\Users\Sean\AppData\Local\Temp\WER-78624-0.sysdata.xml

Those are the BlueScreen messages that I received after rebooting the computer.
The question I have is:
1. What kind of issue am I having, is it an overheating issue, hardware issue or an software issue?
2. What is causing the issue to beging with?
3. Is there a way to fix this issue, and if so how?

To save time for people, and before anyone asks, I have checked and now am certain that my Graphics driver is up to date, and I recently installed the latest version of Microsoft Visual C++ 2010 Redistributable - x86 and x64 and Microsoft Framefowrk Redistributable 4.0.

I would really appreciate your help, I hope that somebody could help me out with this as quick as possible!
Thank you for your assitance in advance

 

[HonorGamer]

Please follow http://www.sevenforums.com/crashes-debugging/96879-blue-screen-death-bsod-posting-instructions.html

This way we can determine the problem a lot better.

-Gamer

 

[Shauner]

Sorry, will take time to read that, and will edit the post shortly.

EDIT: post moved to http://www.sevenforums.com/crashes-...-etc-graphics-hardware-issue.html#post2016814