Windows 7 Frequent BSOD Crashes During Web Browsing and Music Playback: Driver Help Needed

DragonSpawn · May 7, 2010

I keep getting random crashes. They can are as a rule when I am surfing the internet or listening to music. I tend to play a few computer games, so far there has not been a BSOD while playing those. The problem is really getting annoying, with one BSOD coming every 24-48 hours or so. I am not sure if it is driver related or not. Since I manually installed a realtek audio driver and an intel chipset driver.

Thanks

ickymay · May 18, 2010

well memtest86 is our best shot but by no means definitive , to quote Link Removed Microsoft have stated about memory testing programs

Defective memory chips may not be detected by memory checking tools. Some memory checking programs are not adequate tests because they do not test RAM in the same way that Windows uses RAM. Most memory checkers use read/write cycles when scanning memory. Since Windows is executing code from memory, it uses execute cycles. Execute cycles are different from read/write cycles and are more vulnerable to parity errors. It is possible for memory checking programs to find parity errors if the memory is extremely faulty.

maybe it is your audio drivers but that would surface when playing games...

ickymay · May 27, 2010

DragonSpawn said:
I tried updating the most recent mobo drivers and I had BSODs deluxe until I removed them, since i think there I had a driver conflict with windows.

However you gave me an idea. I never flashed my BIOS, my PC is still running on a 2-3 year old version. I looked at the changelog. It stated that one of the BIOS updates included:

Enhanced support for high tick DDR3 RAM

So I just flashed my BIOS. I am running 4gb DDR3 RAM at 1333 mhz. I am not sure if this will help the problem, but I'll keep my fingers crossed. I'll report back if there are any more BSODs.

it's all pointing at sound drivers and now you have updated your BIOS you need to goto your motherboard manufacturers site and grab all the latest drivers

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