T61 Bsoding while gaming.

I have a T61 (sig) and recently its been bsoding quite a bit while in game, i can be playing Half-Life 2 EP1 and a few months ago it was fine for hours on end, no problems what so ever. Now though within 1 hour it will BSOD, same with CNC 3 and Forged Alliance, all of which used to play perfectly now they all BSOD, usually the error is IRQL_not_less_or_equal (or something very close) or the most recent was an error with W32 something it went by pretty fast. At first i thought it was RAM, but i remember i was running Workstation 08 and it would cache all 4gb no problem. I reinstalled with a ghost image of a clean install from the recovery disc and it is still doing it, all up to date drivers, no performance drivers, all lenovo stuff. Now im starting to worry that it could be the G86 issue because it does get quite hot rather quickly. During normal usage just browsing, using VM's, or watching movies it is cool, and has never bsoded.

Any help/suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

 

See if there is a Minidump folder in the Windows Directory, and upload the .dmp files in it.

 

how much hot ?

I don't have any problems, and mine is overclocked I've played C&C 3 for 4 hours with GPU running at 87 deg C, and still no BSOD.

 

A quick googling got me to this post

From the reading, although it's kind of an error that is hard to diagnose, I think it's likely a driver problem of any possible device that you have. As you know, sometimes new drivers (even whql certified ones) come out with flaw. I suggest clean-installing from the recovery partition, which would be much quicker than going over one driver at a time.

 

Seconded. This is the only sure way to begin to understand the causes of the crash.

 

Uploaded, found 3 files

Hot enough to concern me, it seems hotter than it used to and it seems to get hotter quicker, ill get a measuring program on it.

And the driver issue doesnt make alot of sense, this is all after a reinstall and several updates.

 

(3rd dump)
First - "StorageCraft Volume Snap-Shot Development Edition" - Reinstall or Uninstall it. And make sure "SymSnap.sys" (Windows\System32\drivers) has been replaced by another version. Or if its too much of a hassle, rename the .sys file to SymSnap.sys.OLD to make it unusable.

And also run EventVwr.msc, and check the System Log for faulty Devices and Drivers.....

 

I think that may have something to do with the u3 stuff on Sandisk flash drives, i never installed it though, i deleted the file, and event viewer shows nothing around the time of the bsods that would explain anything.

 

When idle, just browsing my GPU is reading 55 degrees celcius
just opening forged alliance brings it to 60 within 1 or 2 minutes
and after 10 minutes of Half Life 2 EP1 it was at 75, this seems kinda fast for it to rise that high.

 

Those temps are fine, just stay below 90 for the gpu

 

I ran memtest86 and it had 80 errors on test 7, almost exactly 40 on each stick. Now ive heard of people getting many many more errors. Right now im running workstation 08 64 and its crashing in every game, games that have been tested to work great in it, no bsod's (i dont think it can). It will just say "your game has expierienced an error and has been closed" tommorrow im borrowing some ram to try that out and see what happens.

 

looks like the RAM is your problem then