A set of monthly BSODs

toottoot

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Hi all,
I was hoping to have my minidump's looked at to give me an idea of what's wrong.
For more than a year my computer would freeze then BSOD. This occurs 3 or 4 times in one week, every 2 or 3 months. After that one week everything is fine. Then 2 months later it happens again, like a cycle.
When these Freeze/BSOD occur I'm not doing anything much, browsing the internet, reading documents, small stuff...
I did memtest and Dell Diagnostic, everything pass except video card, it failed two "user" tests where it ask "Is this RED, Is this Brown", that sort of question, A couple of the colors were wrong at lower resolution. I did not think this was a big thing, I don't notice any problems in Windows.

What do my minidumps tell you? I'd really appreciate the help.
(I could not upload them to forum, they were 277kb)
http://www.mediafire.com/?nk0i6jgzv2wibrd
http://www.mediafire.com/?ukhhdb81b0j3oj3
http://www.mediafire.com/?u5b37h7urap63pk
 
Please use the zip feature built in to the Attachment utility. Read and follow these instructions:
https://www.techspot.com/vb/topic51365.html

All the way at the bottom are the instructions on how to post minidumps, but in the mean time learn how to test the memory and the hard drive before we go the minidump route
 
I zipped the minidumps, I hope it was successful.
 

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The minidumps show nothing that really helps here, but thanks for posting them properly... Are you over-clocking?
What are your computer specs including video card and power supply?
 
Thanks for checking them.
It'd be so nice if they said "It's this" so I'd know. :(
I will get you that information soon, I will edit this post sometime today. (busy doing housework).

Edit: As I was gathering system info I noticed that in "Devices and Printers" there was an unknown device. I recall on two or three other occasions where the computer was BSOD, that there an unknown device at those times as well. The unknown device turned out to be the webcam. Unplugging it from usb slot to another makes it appear again in the Devices and Printers properly. Is this due to plugging into a USB hub? Scratch that...it happened when connected to the back of computer too, awhile back. I don't why it's doing that, it works and drivers are updated, I recently did a reformat as well.

here's some system info anyway, maybe the computer crashing does that to the webcam.
Dell, Studio XPS 435T/9000
i7 920 @2.66
12 GB RAM ddr3
Geforce GTX 260
I have creative soundblaster card, 7.1, with the drivers installed, though im not using it, using usb BOSE system.
475 watt power supply
 
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