Hi, I'm getting a recurring blue screen, rendering my computer basically unusable.
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My specs:
OS: Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit
Processor: AMD Phenom II X4 965 Processor 3.40 GHz
RAM: 4.00 GB
Graphics: ATI Radeon HD 5870 1GB PCI Express Video Card
Age: About 3 months, from Newegg. Full specs are here
It started a few weeks ago, and only seemed to start crashing when I would be playing WoW. When I would try to restart after the BSOD, the problem seemed to snowball and it would crash on startup, directly after startup, etc. If I left the computer off for a while and came back, it would be back to normal, leading me to believe it was an overheating issue.
I seemed to solve the problem for about a week by pointing a fan at my open tower and raising the tower up off the carpeted floor (the design is kind of open in the bottom which some reviewers said caused problems for them). If the fan was off while playing WoW, I would quickly BSOD.
I thought I had figured out the problem and was controlling it with the fan, but over the past few days it has gotten much worse. I get the BSODs even with the fan on, and just when doing simple things like browsing the internet.
The nature of the BSODs is strange. Before going to the blue screen, my screen turns into weird rainbow pixels and a garbled sound blasts through the speakers. Sometimes on the blue screen, the memory dump seems to get frozen and the sound gets more intense/strange. The error message is not consistent either. Perhaps it is graphics card-related?
Any advice or ideas would be greatly appreciated! Thanks =)
Dump Files: View attachment Minidump.zip
My specs:
OS: Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit
Processor: AMD Phenom II X4 965 Processor 3.40 GHz
RAM: 4.00 GB
Graphics: ATI Radeon HD 5870 1GB PCI Express Video Card
Age: About 3 months, from Newegg. Full specs are here
It started a few weeks ago, and only seemed to start crashing when I would be playing WoW. When I would try to restart after the BSOD, the problem seemed to snowball and it would crash on startup, directly after startup, etc. If I left the computer off for a while and came back, it would be back to normal, leading me to believe it was an overheating issue.
I seemed to solve the problem for about a week by pointing a fan at my open tower and raising the tower up off the carpeted floor (the design is kind of open in the bottom which some reviewers said caused problems for them). If the fan was off while playing WoW, I would quickly BSOD.
I thought I had figured out the problem and was controlling it with the fan, but over the past few days it has gotten much worse. I get the BSODs even with the fan on, and just when doing simple things like browsing the internet.
The nature of the BSODs is strange. Before going to the blue screen, my screen turns into weird rainbow pixels and a garbled sound blasts through the speakers. Sometimes on the blue screen, the memory dump seems to get frozen and the sound gets more intense/strange. The error message is not consistent either. Perhaps it is graphics card-related?
Any advice or ideas would be greatly appreciated! Thanks =)