BSOD while playing games

[20thCenturyBoy]

Hi, Good day.

I was playing different games such as FF12 through PCSX2, League of Legends, and Rohan Online when my computer restarted. It happened before though not frequent. But last week and today I've encountered it again. It occurs randomly when I'm playing most of the time when I'm playing full screen. After reboot there's a message that the windows recovered unexpectedly then the problem says bluescreen though I didn't really saw any bluescreen.

Here are the things that I did to solve the problem:

- Reinstalled windows, changed it from ultimate to home basic
- memtest (no errors)
- updated nvidia driver to latest (blue screen still occurred, so I've decided to change it back to the old version where I encounter the problem less) I used driver sweeper.
- Burn test gpu and cpu, It didn't occur.

Can anyone kindly point me to the right direction?

Processor: Intel® Core™ i3-2100 CPU @ 3.10GHz 7.1 5.5
Memory: (RAM) 4.00 GB
Graphics: Palit GT 220 1gb
System type: Windows 7 Home Basic 64-bit operating system

Thank you in anticipation of your response.

 

[koolkat77]

Where did you get the copies of windows 7 from?

 

[20thCenturyBoy]

Where did you get the copies of windows 7 from?

Hi, From a friend he lend it to me to test since I've been experiencing random BSOD.

 

[koolkat77]

Does your motherboard have an onboard VGA slot? Did you connect your pc there and seen if it crashes?

 

[20thCenturyBoy]

Didn't tried the onboard vga because it doesn't boot when I plug the monitor there.

 

[koolkat77]

You have to change the settings from the BIOS first

 

[20thCenturyBoy]

ok ill look for it, can I still play the games that I play using the onboard vga?

 

[koolkat77]

ok ill look for it, can I still play the games that I play using the onboard vga?

Yes but they may not look as good as they do with the graphic card

Tell me if this is a new computer? Is it under it's warranty?

 

[20thCenturyBoy]

Some of the parts are under warranty cpu and the memory but the others are not. I wasn't able to find it. is my graphic card the culprit?

 

[koolkat77]

is my graphic card the culprit?

Maybe, maybe not.
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[20thCenturyBoy]

is my graphic card the culprit?

Maybe, maybe not.
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Hi, I'm done updating my system specs thanks for the help.

 

[koolkat77]

Okay. So connect to your onboard VGA play the games and let us know how it performs.

 

[20thCenturyBoy]

Hi, I switched to onboard vga now, everything looks different now. I'll test it.

 

[20thCenturyBoy]

Hi, I can't test it using the onboard vga since I can't play all the games that I used to play. there are errors such as shader model, my graphic card doesn't support etc etc..

EDIT: I switched it back to pci express.

 

[Arc]

20th centuryboy, you need to update the Graphics Media Accelerator for onboard graphics to enhance the texture sizes etc during gameplay.

Click on start button. Type dxdiag in the search bar, and click the resulting link. The DirectX diagnostics window will come up. Click on the display tab, see what is stated against "Chip Type". Download it and install it. If yours a intel motherboard, you will get in in Intel Download Center.

But, our main concern is to see if it crashes in onboard graphics or not. If not, the graphics card is the culprit there, for sure.

Let us know it, if it crashes on onboard graphics too, or not.

 

[20thCenturyBoy]

20th centuryboy, you need to update the Graphics Media Accelerator for onboard graphics to enhance the texture sizes etc during gameplay.

Click on start button. Type dxdiag in the search bar, and click the resulting link. The DirectX diagnostics window will come up. Click on the display tab, see what is stated against "Chip Type". Download it and install it. If yours a intel motherboard, you will get in in Intel Download Center.

But, our main concern is to see if it crashes in onboard graphics or not. If not, the graphics card is the culprit there, for sure.

Let us know it, if it crashes on onboard graphics too, or not.

thanks I'll try it. I'll post again after testing.

EDIT: I've downloaded the driver, I'll test it now.