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    BSoD

    Discussion in 'Alienware M15x' started by KumquatWrath, Jan 17, 2012.

  1. KumquatWrath

    KumquatWrath Notebook Evangelist

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    Hey guys, today while watching a video online (Honcast, if it really matters) when out of nowhere I BSoD'd. This happened once when I was playing LoL maybe a week earlier? I'm slightly worried if something is wrong with my computer, and if so is there anything I can do to remedy it? Thanks for your help :eek:
     
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    Re u overclocked? Are u using an SSD?
     
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  3. KumquatWrath

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    Nope, neither of those.
     
    KumquatWrath, Jan 17, 2012
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    i place my bets on the driver. use 11.7 instead. seems stable for me (well this's what i'm using).
     
    Hel20eS, Jan 18, 2012
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    Can you play BF3 with those drivers?
     
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    You should be getting memory dumps with those blue screens. Get a dump file viewer (I use bluescreenview.exe) and locate the .DMP files. A good resource to read on the topic: How to read the small memory dump files that Windows creates for debugging

    Basically you should get to see what caused it, whether it be a driver or a memory error.

    It's always nice to know exactly what caused the problem, rather than just updating a bunch of drivers and applying all the latest patches, you know you've nailed it then.
     
    jarvmeister, Jan 18, 2012
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    Tinderbox (UK), Jan 18, 2012
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  8. KumquatWrath

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    Thanks guys, I will take a look and see what I can learn, or at least find out.

    Sent from my SCH-I405 using Tapatalk

    where do you find the dump files :confused: My minidump folder is empty o.o
     
    KumquatWrath, Jan 18, 2012
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    in my case, it's the hardware acceleration thing that bring BSOD when watching any online video.

    turned it off on setting and never got any BSOD anymore,

    it also happen on VLC when hardware acceleration enabled, so yeah this is kind of graphic hardware, windows & driver messed up...
     
    otosan, Jan 19, 2012
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    Ok, just got another BSoD (3rd one) but apparently it's the first one that got recorded so its the only one in my dump folder.
    [​IMG]

    anyone know what this means? :confused:
     
    KumquatWrath, Jan 20, 2012
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