Windows 7 Crashes when opening games.

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MrMonkee

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Hi guys, I have recently booted up an old gaming machine of mine.
When i try and run WoW on it, the computer crashes. I think its blue screening but it just appears to disconnect from the pc.
I think it has something to do with the graphics card.
https://skydrive.live.com/#cid=8FD5A6795E6C3CE4&id=8FD5A6795E6C3CE4%21111
Above is the link to my last dump file form when my pc crashed.
Could you please help me figure out why this is happening as when my pc is running nothing bad happens but when i open games it seems to want to crash.
 
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Dhamilton
You should update your video card drivers and your Operating System.
You said you think its blue screening so I assume that you see it for a quick moment before the PC restarts.

Click Start, Right click Computer, Left Click Properties, Select Advanced System Settings, Select Startup and Recovery Settings, Uncheck "Automatically Restart".
Now if you Blue screen it will stay on the screen until you tell it to go away.

Can also use Event Viewer from Control Panel, Administrative Tools to see where your critical events are happening.

Most likely first solution would be to update your video card drivers to the lastest version for your specific card.
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gbryan101

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Run memtest86 to ensure your RAM isn't the problem. Next, use a burn in program or a CPU intensive benchmark program to test the CPU and eliminate it as a possibility. Move the card to another port, if possible. If it's the card or PSU, you should continue to have crashes.

Now, do you have a spare PSU? If you do, swap them out and test the card again. If it fails, your card is likely bad.
 
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you could try clean installing your driver and checking if thats causing the problem.

download driver fusion and install it, download latest display drivers.

uninstall display drivers and do not restart.
run driver fusion and clean your brands driver entries then restart.
custom install driver, only install display driver and hdmi driver.
 
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Dhamilton

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You should update your video card drivers and your Operating System.
You said you think its blue screening so I assume that you see it for a quick moment before the PC restarts.

Click Start, Right click Computer, Left Click Properties, Select Advanced System Settings, Select Startup and Recovery Settings, Uncheck "Automatically Restart".
Now if you Blue screen it will stay on the screen until you tell it to go away.

Can also use Event Viewer from Control Panel, Administrative Tools to see where your critical events are happening.

Most likely first solution would be to update your video card drivers to the lastest version for your specific card.
 
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