My computer will play games sometimes. Help Please.

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Franknferter

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I built my PC about a month ago and was having some pretty serious problems, lots of BSOD. I have gotten the BSOD worked out but alas another problem has risen. It seems that the games that I want to play will randomly freeze and the stop responding and other times they work without an issue. The only box that appears after I manage to stop the program is (insert Program).exe has stopped responding. I would love some help in solving this.

Specs as follows:
Motherboard: Gigabyte 78lmt-s2 with current Bios running.
CPU: AMD FX-4100
RAM: 8GB PNY Optima
GPU: Sapphire 7870
Power Supply: 600watts
OS: Windows 7 w/ SP1
 
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Could be many things. More information on the BSOD's would be helpful. This can help with that http://www.resplendence.com/whocrashed. Whats the make and model of the power supply as a poor quality unit can put out alot of noise on the rails and cause system stability issues like what you are seeing.
 
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bignastyid

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Well I would suggest replacing it ASAP that power supply is complete garbage in terms of quality. Even the Newegg forums(http://www.eggxpert.com/forums/thread/323050.aspx) rate it a tier 5 unit(suggested to replace asap). Using that power supply you are actually putting the rest of the hardware at risk, when it blows(not if but when) it is likly ot will take other components with it, plus the noise it produces on the rails could very well be causing your stability issues. Replace it with a tier 3 or higher unit.
 
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Franknferter

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And here is a copy/past from the whocrashed program.


On Wed 5/22/2013 3:27:25 AM GMT your computer crashed
crash dump file: C:\Windows\Minidump\052113-16582-01.dmp
This was probably caused by the following module: atikmdag.sys (atikmdag+0x23C5C)
Bugcheck code: 0xA0000001 (0x5, 0x0, 0x0, 0x0)
Error: CUSTOM_ERROR
file path: C:\Windows\system32\drivers\atikmdag.sys
product: ATI Radeon Family
company: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
description: ATI Radeon Kernel Mode Driver
A third party driver was identified as the probable root cause of this system error. It is suggested you look for an update for the following driver: atikmdag.sys (ATI Radeon Kernel Mode Driver, Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.).
Google query: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. CUSTOM_ERROR

 
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Franknferter

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Funny you should mention the drivers. It was causing the BSOD. If I update to the most current it will do it from time to time. I switched to an older driver and it hasn't done it since. Now it will just boot me out of games randomly.
 
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