Freeze Up/BSOD While Playing Games in Windows Vista (Updated)

[DrSatanDracula]

Right now I am playing the game and it maxes out at:

CPU#1/Core#1           50c
CPU#1/Core#1           50c
CPU#1/Core#1           48c
CPU#1/Core#1           48c
GPU Diode              80c
Samusng HD642JJ        27c

It seems it has averaged to cool down to about:

CPU#1/Core#1           48c
CPU#1/Core#1           48c
CPU#1/Core#1           46c
CPU#1/Core#1           46c
GPU Diode              74c
Samusng HD642JJ        27c

After playing even mroe the average was more like:

CPU#1/Core#1           49c
CPU#1/Core#1           49c
CPU#1/Core#1           47c
CPU#1/Core#1           47c
GPU Diode              76c
Samusng HD642JJ        27c

Post-freeze, the game ran fine for about an hour and a half.

[computeruler]

Woa, this sounds just like a problem I used to have. I tried rmaing the gpu like 5 different times and I installed a billion different drivers.  Nothing solved it.  Then I installed windows 7... Never a problem since.  Thats the only other thing I can think of to fix it if nothing else works.  Win 7 is better then vista anways

[Broni]

It doesn't look like overheating problem.

Go Start>Run ("Start Search" in Vista), type in:
sfc /scannow
Click OK (hold CTRL, and SHIFT, hit Enter in Vista).
Have Windows CD/DVD handy (with Vista, most likely, you won't need it).
If System File Checker (sfc) will find any errors, it may ask you for the CD/DVD (rarely in Vista case).
If sfc won't find any errors in Windows XP, it'll simply quit, without any message.
In Vista you will receive the following message: "Windows resource protection did not find any integrity violations".

[DrSatanDracula]

Woa, this sounds just like a problem I used to have. I tried rmaing the gpu like 5 different times and I installed a billion different drivers.  Nothing solved it.  Then I installed windows 7... Never a problem since.  Thats the only other thing I can think of to fix it if nothing else works.  Win 7 is better then vista anways

I'm not really keen on trying Windows 7 because Windows 7 is so new, ya know? I'm concerned with the fact that MS usually puts out crap to start off with. IT takes a while for it to get good.

I wouldn't even be running Vista if I had a choice. But this compter came with it and mjy older version of Vista as only 32 bit.

[DrSatanDracula]

It doesn't look like overheating problem.

Go Start>Run ("Start Search" in Vista), type in:
sfc /scannow
Click OK (hold CTRL, and SHIFT, hit Enter in Vista).
Have Windows CD/DVD handy (with Vista, most likely, you won't need it).
If System File Checker (sfc) will find any errors, it may ask you for the CD/DVD (rarely in Vista case).
If sfc won't find any errors in Windows XP, it'll simply quit, without any message.
In Vista you will receive the following message: "Windows resource protection did not find any integrity violations".

Running it now, thanks friend.

[computeruler]

Trust me, windows 7 is already good.  And it solves all my problems.  Its not anywhere close to being vista.  Way better then when vista was first released.

[Mulreay]

Nothing wrong with Vista. Lets not flog a dead horse. We all know that for what every reason people hate Vista..

[DrSatanDracula]

It doesn't look like overheating problem.

Go Start>Run ("Start Search" in Vista), type in:
sfc /scannow
Click OK (hold CTRL, and SHIFT, hit Enter in Vista).
Have Windows CD/DVD handy (with Vista, most likely, you won't need it).
If System File Checker (sfc) will find any errors, it may ask you for the CD/DVD (rarely in Vista case).
If sfc won't find any errors in Windows XP, it'll simply quit, without any message.
In Vista you will receive the following message: "Windows resource protection did not find any integrity violations".

I have Vista but it quit without any sort of message after 100 percent. So it seems nothing is wrong through that.

Sorry for the wait.

[Broni]

A. If you have more than one RAM module installed, try starting computer with one RAM stick at a time.

NOTE Keep in mind, the manual check listed above is always superior to the software check, listed below. DO NOT proceed with memtest, if you can go with option A

B. If you have only one RAM stick installed...
...run memtest...

1. Download - Pre-Compiled Bootable ISO (.zip)
2. Unzip downloaded memtest86+-2.11.iso.zip file.
3. Inside, you'll find memtest86+-2.11.iso file.
4. Download, and install ImgBurn: http://www.imgburn.com/
5. Insert blank CD into your CD drive.
6. Open ImgBurn, and click on Write image file to disc
7. Click on Browse for a file... icon:



8. Locate memtest86+-2.11.iso file, and click Open button.
9. Click on ImgBurn green arrow to start burning bootable memtest86 CD:



10. Once the CD is created, boot from it, and memtest will automatically start to run.

The running program will look something like this depending on the size and number of ram modules installed:




It's recommended to run 5-6 passes. Each pass contains very same 8 tests.

This will show the progress of the test. It can take a while. Be patient, or leave it running overnight.



The following image is the test results area:



The most important item here is the “errors” line. If you see ANY errors, even one, most likely, you have bad RAM.

[DrSatanDracula]

A. If you have more than one RAM module installed, try starting computer with one RAM stick at a time.

NOTE Keep in mind, the manual check listed above is always superior to the software check, listed below. DO NOT proceed with memtest, if you can go with option A

B. If you have only one RAM stick installed...
...run memtest...

1. Download - Pre-Compiled Bootable ISO (.zip)
2. Unzip downloaded memtest86+-2.11.iso.zip file.
3. Inside, you'll find memtest86+-2.11.iso file.
4. Download, and install ImgBurn: http://www.imgburn.com/
5. Insert blank CD into your CD drive.
6. Open ImgBurn, and click on Write image file to disc
7. Click on Browse for a file... icon:



8. Locate memtest86+-2.11.iso file, and click Open button.
9. Click on ImgBurn green arrow to start burning bootable memtest86 CD:



10. Once the CD is created, boot from it, and memtest will automatically start to run.

The running program will look something like this depending on the size and number of ram modules installed:




It's recommended to run 5-6 passes. Each pass contains very same 8 tests.

This will show the progress of the test. It can take a while. Be patient, or leave it running overnight.



The following image is the test results area:



The most important item here is the “errors” line. If you see ANY errors, even one, most likely, you have bad RAM.

Thanks, friend. I am going to download this and do this over night. I'll post back and tell you guys how it works out.

[DrSatanDracula]

I just did another scan-now and put the command in after loading the CMD to avoid it disappearing right after the scan and I got this back:

Verification 100% complete.
Windows Resource Protection found corrupt files but was unable to fix some of them.
Details are included in the CBS.log windir\logs\CBS\cbs.log. For example C:\Windows\Logs\CBS\CBS.log

I think this is all the pertinent info in the attachment. I can't really make heads or tails out of it.



[Saving space, attachment deleted by admin]

[Broni]

The only issue, which couldn't be fixed was some issue with Sidebar ini file, so I don't think, it matters here.

[DrSatanDracula]

My memory test results were no errors over 15 passes (while I slept for some 7 hours).

[DrSatanDracula]

The only issue, which couldn't be fixed was some issue with Sidebar ini file, so I don't think, it matters here.

Hmm! Thanks for analyzing it. That's curious.

By the way: Thanks for your tremendous amoutn of help. As you might have seen, I've been thanking many of these posts.

[Broni]

You're welcome

My memory test results were no errors over 15 passes

Did you?

A. If you have more than one RAM module installed, try starting computer with one RAM stick at a time.

NOTE Keep in mind, the manual check listed above is always superior to the software check, listed below.