Frequent BSOD's started after playing CS:Source

[Crwood]

I wasn't recieving any errors playing Starcraft 2, but after the BSOD's happened a few times playing CS:S now I am getting them even when playing Starcraft 2. I GREATLY appreciate the help to find a solution! I love these games and it's painful not to be able to play them.


System specs:

Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 64-bit, and everything installs in to Program Files (x86)

Original OS was Windows XP, but I wiped the partition to install Windows 7.

I bought an OEM and installed it myself.

Hardware purchased in 2008, except for GPU and RAM.

My current OS install is about 1 year old.

Hardware specs:

CPU: AMD Athlon 64 X2 6400+ Windsor 3.2GHz Socket AM2 125W Dual-Core

mobo: ASUS M2NPV-VM AM2 NVIDIA GeForce 6150 Micro ATX AMD Motherboard

memory: CORSAIR XMS2 2GB (2 x 1GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (i also bought some newer, 2 x 2gig sticks)

GPU: SAPPHIRE 100315L Radeon HD 6850 1GB 256bit GDDR5 PCIE 2.1x16

Sound Card: Integrated, w/ downloaded Soundmax drivers.

Monitor / reso: FLATRON W1952tq 1440x900

Hard Drive: Western Digital Caviar Blue WD3200AAKS 320GB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive -Bare Drive

Cooling: Rosewill RCX-Z3 92mm Ball CPU Cooler + like 2 other case fan


Just had another crash! Additional information about the problem:
BCCode: 50
BCP1: FFFFF8800B848038
BCP2: 0000000000000000
BCP3: FFFFF880045240B9
BCP4: 0000000000000002
OS Version: 6_1_7601
Service Pack: 1_0
Product: 768_1

 

[Golden]

Please follow steps outlined here to get BSOD help:

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

 

[Crwood]

Here you are! Thank you so much!! I will be checking this thread frequently

 

[Golden]

crash dump file: E:\Debug5\042013-13884-01.dmp
uptime: 00:35:58
This was probably caused by the following module: dxgmms1.sys (dxgmms1!VIDMM_GLOBAL::ReferenceDmaBuffer+0x169) 
Bugcheck code: 0x50 (0xFFFFF8800B848038, 0x0, 0xFFFFF880045240B9, 0x2)
Error: PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA
file path: C:\Windows\system32\drivers\[B]dxgmms1.sys[/B]

Are your video card drivers up-to-date? Please update if not, then check if your system still BSOD's.

 

[Crwood]

Yes I just downloaded AMD's "Driver Autodetect" and it says that my drivers are current.

 

[Golden]

Did you follow instructions here???

http://www.sevenforums.com/bsod-hel...ring-bsod-problems-get-them-while-gaming.html

 

[Crwood]

I'll be following those steps 1 by 1, trying to induce a crash, and then I'll keep going down the list until (hopefully) the crash stops. I'll update periodically.

Completed so far:
1. I'm downloading and installing ATK0110 driver for WindowsXP/Vista/Win7 32&64-bit
Update: After downloading ATK0110 driver, my games were running smooth all night last night, but this morning it began crashing and I got a bluescreen. So far, stability seems better, but still not perfect.

2. I'm running sfc/scannow in an elevated command prompt.
Update: It said Windows Resource Protection did not find any integrity violations.

3. I'm enabling Driver Verifier now.
Update: I could not even log in to windows after enabling Driver Verifier. All I could see on my screen once it got to the log in, was thick blue rectangular streaks all the way across my screen.

 

[Crwood]

Can someone PLEASE help me now?

I can't find many of the drivers listed online.

 

[Crwood]

i dont have a laptop!

 

[Arc]

Hello Crowdd.

The BIOS is very backdated there.

BiosVersion = ASUS M2NPV-VM ACPI BIOS Revision 1103
BiosReleaseDate = [COLOR=Red]09/06/2007[/COLOR]

If possible, plan to update it. Get the version 5005(though it's a beta, but its the latest), dated 2010.07.15
Get it from ASUS - M2NPV-VM

Then let us know which driver you want to update.

As per your motherboards specifications ...

 Chipset [B]:[/B] NVIDIA GeForce 6150 + nForce 430

But not finding any later version of nforce 430 series update. It seems to be not supported anymore. No chipset update from motherboards page. You may have a look in Drivers - Download NVIDIA Drivers

 

[Crwood]

Okay thank you, I will try what you suggested. In the meantime I had a question:

Could a driver be causing my computer to overheat? Because I was able to game all night last night when it was colder in my room, without a crash. But also the streaking I saw when running Driver Verifier leads me to believe it's more than just over-heating. I hope this helps someone.

 

[Arc]

No, a driver should not cause overheating. If it is overheating, the reason behind it is to be searched either in hardware or in the computers environment.

The things those may cause overheat are ....

• an old GPU
• dust within the computer..... if the air vents and the fan grills are blocked by dust
• insufficient and not properly working fans/cooling
• insufficient power supply
• dried thermal paste
• overclocking

etc some things. But usually not a driver. Drivers initiate the hardware and keep them working, nothing more.