Catchy title? I'll get to it. Its at the end of my autobiography below.
Recently, while playing Oblivion my pc has been displaying the blue-screen-of-death. Sadly, there is nothing written on the blue-screen-of-death. Its only an empty blue screen. It just turns blue after about 40 minutes of playing and I just restart my pc. It didn't always used to be like this though.
I used to play Oblivion a lot. 3-4 hours at a time. Until one day, after a couple of hours of playing, I got the BSoD. The first thing that came to mind were those hundreds of ffdshow audio icons that appear in the system tray when exiting Oblivion (if you've played oblivion and watched movies on the same pc you know what I'm talking about). So, following the advice of a FAQ on the offical Oblivion site, I configured ffdshow not to open with Oblivion.
Then it truly began. Everytime I would play Oblivion for more than half an hour, the audio would start messing up and then eventually I would get the BSoD. The first thing I did was re-install the audio drivers, graphics card drivers, and even ffdshow. No help.
I had already purchased a new 450 Watt PSU (for soon-to-come upgrades I hope) to replace my 350 Watt one. So I put that in (its in now), and: no help.
Upon restarting my computer after one of those BSoDs, Windows informed me (as it usually does afterwards) that it has recovered from a serious error. This time, I decided to submit the error report. Internet explorer opened and took me to a webpage informing me the Microsoft was aware of this error and they needed more people to give them full memory dumps to help them analyze it. However, they needed the full dumps and I only had minidumps so I couldn't help them out, at least until I reproduce the error and get a full dump.
Anyway, you now know the story of my life so can you help me out? I don't think my problem is on the top of Microsofts to-do list. You may wonder why I haven't posted this in some sort of Oblivion forum and I'll tell you 1) I got the BSoD _once_ while playing FEAR. I was playing many games to test out the new 450Watt PSU and I played Doom 3, Half-Life 2, FEAR, Quake 4, and the Chronicles of Riddick all day long. I got the BSoD when exiting FEAR. I haven't been able to reproduce the BSoD for FEAR since. For this reason I don't think this is strictly an Oblivion problem; and 2) this place is the most helpfull among the many forums I have seen (the Oblivion forum is full of annoyed and annoying people).
Here is the error I get upon restarting (if anyone can decipher it)
BCCode : 1000000a BCP1 : 00000054 BCP2 : 0000001C BCP3 : 00000001
BCP4 : 80501FF4 OSVer : 5_1_2600 SP : 2_0 Product : 768_1
And here are my specs:
- Pentium® D Processor 820 with Dual Core Technology (2.80GHz, 800FSB)
- 1GB Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM at 533MHz- 2DIMMs
- 250GB Serial ATA Hard Drive (7200RPM) w/DataBurst Cache™
- 256MB PCI Express™ x16 (DVI/VGA/TV-out) ATI Radeon X600 SE HyperMemory
- Sound Blaster Audigy™2 ZS (D) Card w/Dolby 5.1, and IEEE 1394
- FSP PSU | AX450-PN 450W RT
Recently, while playing Oblivion my pc has been displaying the blue-screen-of-death. Sadly, there is nothing written on the blue-screen-of-death. Its only an empty blue screen. It just turns blue after about 40 minutes of playing and I just restart my pc. It didn't always used to be like this though.
I used to play Oblivion a lot. 3-4 hours at a time. Until one day, after a couple of hours of playing, I got the BSoD. The first thing that came to mind were those hundreds of ffdshow audio icons that appear in the system tray when exiting Oblivion (if you've played oblivion and watched movies on the same pc you know what I'm talking about). So, following the advice of a FAQ on the offical Oblivion site, I configured ffdshow not to open with Oblivion.
Then it truly began. Everytime I would play Oblivion for more than half an hour, the audio would start messing up and then eventually I would get the BSoD. The first thing I did was re-install the audio drivers, graphics card drivers, and even ffdshow. No help.
I had already purchased a new 450 Watt PSU (for soon-to-come upgrades I hope) to replace my 350 Watt one. So I put that in (its in now), and: no help.
Upon restarting my computer after one of those BSoDs, Windows informed me (as it usually does afterwards) that it has recovered from a serious error. This time, I decided to submit the error report. Internet explorer opened and took me to a webpage informing me the Microsoft was aware of this error and they needed more people to give them full memory dumps to help them analyze it. However, they needed the full dumps and I only had minidumps so I couldn't help them out, at least until I reproduce the error and get a full dump.
Anyway, you now know the story of my life so can you help me out? I don't think my problem is on the top of Microsofts to-do list. You may wonder why I haven't posted this in some sort of Oblivion forum and I'll tell you 1) I got the BSoD _once_ while playing FEAR. I was playing many games to test out the new 450Watt PSU and I played Doom 3, Half-Life 2, FEAR, Quake 4, and the Chronicles of Riddick all day long. I got the BSoD when exiting FEAR. I haven't been able to reproduce the BSoD for FEAR since. For this reason I don't think this is strictly an Oblivion problem; and 2) this place is the most helpfull among the many forums I have seen (the Oblivion forum is full of annoyed and annoying people).
Here is the error I get upon restarting (if anyone can decipher it)
BCCode : 1000000a BCP1 : 00000054 BCP2 : 0000001C BCP3 : 00000001
BCP4 : 80501FF4 OSVer : 5_1_2600 SP : 2_0 Product : 768_1
And here are my specs:
- Pentium® D Processor 820 with Dual Core Technology (2.80GHz, 800FSB)
- 1GB Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM at 533MHz- 2DIMMs
- 250GB Serial ATA Hard Drive (7200RPM) w/DataBurst Cache™
- 256MB PCI Express™ x16 (DVI/VGA/TV-out) ATI Radeon X600 SE HyperMemory
- Sound Blaster Audigy™2 ZS (D) Card w/Dolby 5.1, and IEEE 1394
- FSP PSU | AX450-PN 450W RT
