Author Topic: Computer freezes randomly (Read 2087 times)

Randomguy · May 11, 2009, 05:49:31 AM

Quote from: bloodnight on May 11, 2009, 03:50:55 AM

do you have a carpet of dust anywhere in your computer?
I fix computers alot, I have a job in it.
More then 40% of the computer i work on have dust bunny problems :D

I wouldn't be surprised if that was part of the problem. I may check that later today.

Quote from: Big Brother on May 11, 2009, 03:28:07 AM

Re-install.

Blockland isn't the problem.

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General Nick · May 11, 2009, 07:34:41 AM

Quote from: Bisjac on May 10, 2009, 04:31:47 PM

ram going stuffty does this stuff to.
and many times you would only see it in a game.

run a memtest also

Quote from: Gen. Nick on May 10, 2009, 03:45:46 PM

In my personal experience,I had a 1GB stick of RAM go bad and my Geforce 6800XT died. Removing the 1GB stick solved the problem for a few games, but it still BSOD'd on a few games.

Try finding the corrupt RAM and removing it.
Also, if the BSOD says anything about nvlddmkm.dll (Nvidia drivers) or the main driver file (Which can be found by going into dxdiag), then most likely you either have the wrong drivers or the GPU is messing up.

Orgodemirk · May 11, 2009, 08:19:42 AM

Disable Automatic restart on System Failure. That'll give you more time to collect data from the BSOD if it happens again.

I didn't see if you said what OS.

In XP, go to System Properties, Advanced Tab, Startup and Recovery. Just uncheck Automatic restart.

Randomguy · May 11, 2009, 02:47:02 PM

Quote from: Orgodemirk on May 11, 2009, 08:19:42 AM

Disable Automatic restart on System Failure. That'll give you more time to collect data from the BSOD if it happens again.

I didn't see if you said what OS.

In XP, go to System Properties, Advanced Tab, Startup and Recovery. Just uncheck Automatic restart.

I did that yesterday, which is how I was able to record the code on the previous page. My OS is Vista, by the way.

I tried running a memtest, but it BSOD'd about 4% into the test. I'd type out what it said, but pictures are worth a thousand words:

Inv3rted · May 11, 2009, 03:20:16 PM

All I can tell you is that there is a hardware failure.

Randomguy · May 11, 2009, 03:25:38 PM

Yeah, I'll try and look inside for any problems later today.

General Omega · May 11, 2009, 03:26:56 PM

It is a driver error. The problem is that I can not tell what driver it is but I can tell that it might be your video cards. Try finding any updates to them, but before doing so, you should backup the drivers you have now.

Randomguy · May 11, 2009, 04:01:21 PM

I downloaded DriverMax and checked to see if there were any driver updates, and it turns out that over half of my drivers are outdated. I'm downloading updates now to see if that helps.

Randomguy · May 11, 2009, 09:40:45 PM

Alright, problem solved, for now at least. Apparently 25 of my drivers had to be updated, and one or more of them was causing a problem.