Computer BSOD when playing games.

Fish1234

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When i start playing games like 5-10mins into them the computer goes to BCOD code.f4 and when looking my CPU and gpu temps they do not change when i am playing games they both are staying at 28-35 degrees and gpu core only goes to 35% does this mean there not running like the should be and it is causing my computer to crash?

120213-7066-01.dmp 12/2/2013 9:47:05 PM CRITICAL_OBJECT_TERMINATION 0x000000f4 00000000`00000003 fffffa80`089b8b30 fffffa80`089b8e10 fffff800`0378f7b0 ntoskrnl.exe ntoskrnl.exe+75bc0 NT Kernel & System Microsoft® Windows® Operating System Microsoft Corporation 6.1.7601.18247 (win7sp1_gdr.130828-1532) x64 ntoskrnl.exe+75bc0 C:\Windows\Minidump\120213-7066-01.dmp 8 15 7601 309,392 12/2/2013 9:47:33 PM

 
Solution
Ok so it's either a memory problem or a hard drive issue. This is the next order of steps to take, check memory first, then hard drive cable, then the IDE/AHCI controller on the software side.

If you can make a boot disk or boot USB with Memtest420 on it.
http://www.memtest.org/ has everything you need. Let it run for a few hours, or for least 2 full test passes.
If everything checks out OK, next thing to check out is the HDD cable, or the ahci/ide mode. Are you using a SSD? If so, you need to change the registry in Windows to allow AHCI mode (first, very important), then go into motherboard bios and change the Sata mode to AHCI, as it is faster and better than IDE.
(Instructions for AHCI from IDE)
Exit all Windows-based programs...

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BSOD makes a crash report. Go to start, right click on computer > Manage then go to the event viewer log. Write down any errors with a red symbol next to them on this post.
Also there is a program called BlueScreenViewer which is useful for compiling crash logs.
http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/blue_screen_view.html'
Run that and post what it finds here along with your system specs.
 

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Ok so it's either a memory problem or a hard drive issue. This is the next order of steps to take, check memory first, then hard drive cable, then the IDE/AHCI controller on the software side.

If you can make a boot disk or boot USB with Memtest420 on it.
http://www.memtest.org/ has everything you need. Let it run for a few hours, or for least 2 full test passes.
If everything checks out OK, next thing to check out is the HDD cable, or the ahci/ide mode. Are you using a SSD? If so, you need to change the registry in Windows to allow AHCI mode (first, very important), then go into motherboard bios and change the Sata mode to AHCI, as it is faster and better than IDE.
(Instructions for AHCI from IDE)
Exit all Windows-based programs.
Click Start, type regedit in the Start Search box, and then press ENTER.
If you receive the User Account Control dialog box, click Continue.
Locate and then click one of the following registry subkeys:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\Msahci
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\IastorV
In the right pane, right-click Start in the Name column, and then click Modify.
In the Value data box, type 0, and then click OK.
On the File menu, click Exit to close Registry Editor.

Then reboot the system. Remember you will not be able to boot into windows unless you change the IDE Controller Mode in the BIOS from IDE/RAID to AHCI.
Therefore you need to get into the BIOS and change those particular settings.
 
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