Blue screen of death

**Theonemafia** · 01-27-08, 10:54 AM

My rig has been acting up lately. about a month ago i start having one or two blue crashes but then lately its been really bad to were it crashes anywhere between 25 to 35 or more a day. The bad part is that everytime it crashes i gives a different code so idk even know what is really wrong with my rig. Some one told me that my hard drive is going bad. Is that right? My hard drive is about 2years old and its only a 80Gb.

What should I do?

**SAMBO** · 01-27-08, 11:06 AM

Hook up your hd to another pc and see if it works.

Does your pc over heat? Could of fried a few capacitors on the mobo. If they look rounded on the ends then they are fucked.

**SapiensErus** · 01-27-08, 11:51 AM

What OS is it, how long have you been running it, and what are your general specs?

**Theonemafia** · 01-27-08, 01:32 PM

Amd 3500+
1Gb ram ddr 400
BFG 7800gtx
750 power supply
80Gb hard.
XP.

**Forquet** · 01-28-08, 12:27 PM

Depending on the amount of time you want to spend...you can down load and install Debug and get a dump of the files loaded into memory. The Debug will show you where you system kicks out the error. Unless you're really up on this kind of stuff ( I wasn't), the mem dump cam be a little cryptic. I was able to email it to a MS customer service tech and was told it was my sound card drivers. I updated the drivers and problem solved. I took me many weeks of frustration to get that far.

PS Also try searching the error code on MS's knowledge base. That's where I learned about the Debug utility.

Hope this helps.

**Scrum** · 01-28-08, 04:07 PM

Hey Maf,

Usually when its HD trouble you will get errors popping up in your event viewer under the system log.

Did you install anything recently (a driver, a piece of hardware)?

Did you overclock your system?

Also, windows is prone to the BSOD - a good repair of Windows could help as well.

**roadhog0** · 01-28-08, 06:31 PM

This has happend to me a couple times, open your comp and pull you memory, then reseat it. You should be good after that!

**SapiensErus** · 01-28-08, 08:05 PM

Originally Posted by Theonemafia

Amd 3500+
1Gb ram ddr 400
BFG 7800gtx
750 power supply
80Gb hard.
XP.

Think of anything that might have changed between when it was working normally and now. Did you change or update any drivers? Did you install any programs?

Other than that... just troubleshoot. Fire it up with nothing in it but minimal CPU and RAM, try to make it crash, add hardware until crash occurs.

In the end, if it has been a long time, just reinistall everything. I like to reinstall all my systems once yearly.

**Theonemafia** · 01-29-08, 11:20 PM

Beautiful! My rig wont even boot up now! every time it boots it says CMOS checksum error. I really don't think it's my battery, I think after all this crashes my MB or the Bois give up. What do you guys think?