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    0x7f blue screen while playing TF2

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by madroxinide, Jan 12, 2008.

  1. madroxinide

    madroxinide Notebook Deity

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    Everywhere I have looked this tells me I have hardware problems (I'm on a custom built desktop)

    But...I can run memtest86 for multiple hours. I can run prime95 torture test for mutliple hours... I can run OCCT for multiple hours. I'm going to try to play COD4 here in a bit to see if I get any BSOD's in that game. I seriosly think it is just a Steam+TF2 problem that doesn't like Vista. My temps of my processor never go above 45 while playing games.

    Anyone wanna shine any light on my subject?

    e6750
    8800gt
    750w psu
    vista ultimate
    3gb ddr2 800mhz g.skill ram.
     
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    Sorry, I can't help you, but right when I opened this thread, it bluescreened! Ironic.
     
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    So when you run a graphics-intensive application, your computer crashes. And then you run no-graphics, all-CPU applications to test your system... ;)

    Perhaps you'd get more useful information by stress testing with 3dMark or other games.

    It might be a hardware problem, it might be overheating, or it might be.... something else. It might even be a problem with TF2, but that is unlikely. (Generally speaking, only kernel-mode software (drivers and the OS) can cause a blue screen. Regular user-mode applications have no possible way to do it... Other than, of course, triggering a driver or OS bug somewhere.
    But when it's a bluescreen, it's very unlikely that it's a problem with TF2. It might only happen in TF2, but even then, the problem is more likely in the graphics driver. Or you have a hardware problem, of course.

    My money is on the driver though. Have you updated all drivers? Both for chipset, GPU and everything else? Updated bios too?
    Is anything overclocked?
     
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  4. madroxinide

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    Runs through 3dmark06 fine. Awesome speeds and everything.

    I just ran through 4 or 5 hours of Call Of Duty 4 on max settings....and it only hiccuped 2 times with an error known as "iw3sp.exe has had a problem and needs to close" Could this be somewhat tied in with my TF2 errors?


    I have tried various drivers for my video card, including the newest ones and the second newest ones etc. I have tried a couple of my audio drivers at different points, I'm using the chipset driver that came with my motherboard (gigabyte p35-ds3l) And i have my cpu overclocked to 3.2 ghz from 2.66.

    I havn't updated my bios.

    as far as I know cod4 is more intensive than tf2 and cod4 ran through almost flawless and without a single blue screen.
     
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    I just got a system32 bluescreen while watching youtube...wow this is annoying.

    Additional information about the problem:
    BCCode: be
    BCP1: 937E4030
    BCP2: 9AA08021
    BCP3: 8F327B9C
    BCP4: 0000000B
    OS Version: 6_0_6000

    I'm beginning to think its an audio problem.
     
    madroxinide, Jan 12, 2008
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