KevBurns said:Hello,
I am having some very similar BSOD problems as some people in this thread. here is a summary of my experience, hope it helps.
One day, my computer decided to reboot in
the middle of a game. WOW, COOL, AWESOME. But thats not all. It
rebooted and ran fine, but every once in a blue moon it would hard
reboot at random for no apparent reason. Recently, it has gotten really
bad, and the computer will not run for longer than 5 minutes before
dying, regardless of load. In fact, all this hard booting has messed with
the operating system files, and even after reformatting the computer
continues to blue screen during windows XP installation.
Nothing is overheating, and all the hardware is physically
secure. I started troubleshooting and...
This is what I wound up replacing:
1) the harddrive with a fresh 40gb drive and windows XP install
2) the power supply with a 485w Noisetaker
3) the motherboard with a P4C800E-Deluxe
4) the RAM with two Corsair TwinX 512 DDR400
5) the cpu heatsink with a gigantic copper heat draining monster.
STILL HARD REBOOTING LIKE EVER.
Literally the only thing that has not been replaced is the CPU.
Behold, my powers of deduction!!!
I am going to replace it tomorrow, and will keep you posted.
- Kev Burns
Kev;
After reading your post I just can't help thinking that you might be devoting too much energy to the hardware in your box. If you are still getting BSOD's after changing all that you changed,I was wondering if maybe you want to do some setting changes in the GUI for your Vid card.Tone down the accelration,anti-aliasing,Video cache in BIOS etc.
Games as you know max out the capabilities of any Box and each game can have different settings because of the way they are written.
I have a friend that has a different hardware Profile in which he plays games only.That setting has every possible service shut down to allow his box to devot it's processing to the game itself.
Just wanted to give you a nudge in case you needed it.If you have done all/any of the stuff I mentioned then, I apologize for wasting your time.
Good luck with your problem.