Hello everyone, I'm going to try and be as precise and to the point as I can to minimalize questions and to help get helpful advice (as I always do on this forum!)
I have been having issues ever since I built this computer for Christmas with BSODs and random shut downs and/or freezes while playing graphic intensive games. These games include Payday 2, Assassin's Creed IV, Civilization V, and even Roller Coaster Tycoon 3: Platinum Edition. When I play these games, I typically use Skype at the same time to chat with friends while we game together. Here is a detailed description of what happens:
I turn on my computer, log in to my profile and wait for everything to boot up. I then get on Skype, and open up the game I want to play. Within about 15 minutes to an hour worth of playing, my game will do the BSOD, freeze, or random shut down. Once the BSOD has collected 100% of the crash info, I restart my computer and basically just repeat the process again of rebooting, etc.
If I blue screen, I wait for the data to be collected for the minidump file before I restart.
When my computer randomly freezes in game, I just restart my computer and it usually runs just fine.
When I play and my computer just randomly shuts off without warning, it tries to restart itself and I don't even have to do anything. However, when it tries to restart, it usually gets stuck in a reboot loop of trying to start back up. To explain, it turns on, but my monitor, mouse, and keyboard are not responding to it turning on. After about 5 seconds or so, it powers down, and 5 seconds later it tries to reboot itself again.
My rig is below:
Operating System
Windows 8.1 64-bit
CPU
Intel Core i5 3570K @ 3.40GHz
Ivy Bridge 22nm Technology
RAM
8.00GB Dual-Channel DDR3 @ 804MHz (11-11-11-28)
Motherboard
MSI Z77 MPower (MS-7751) (SOCKET 0) (Running on BIOS version from Dec. 2012)
Graphics
VG248 (1920x1080@60Hz)
2047MB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 770 (EVGA)
PSU
750W Corsair
Storage
931GB Seagate ST1000DM003-1CH162 (SATA)
111GB KINGSTON SH103S3120G (SSD)
Optical Drives
ASUS DRW-24B1ST i
Audio
NVIDIA Virtual Audio Device (Wave Extensible) (WDM)
To continue on, I have taken my full rig to a computer repair shop near where I live, to which they did a full scan/diagnosis of my problems and found that there are no hardware issues and that my rig was constructed successfully. I have also checked myself to see if the wattage was fine coming out of my wall (which it is, it reaches a maximum wattage of 336 while running a graphic intensive game). With all of this in mind, I've also ran tests on my own, such as memtest86 from bootable CD-ROM, Furmark for my GPU and CPU, and scanned both of my hard drives via the MS-DOS commands "chkdsk .. ". None of these tests found any problems either.
Out of all of my frustrations, I found a program called "WhoCrashed?" that read my Minidump files that the BSODs produced. Most of this information is over my head, but I could still give you some of the images from the errors they had. It also gives the error codes as well. Granted, the images may be a bit blurry..but still possible to see the codes.
Most recent to oldest:
http://gyazo.com/a40d207fd00129580ca691f57115fde9
http://gyazo.com/bc340e9aed3f9b68a65302264d9a3b23
http://gyazo.com/3f69aae6015548cc9e5820f355486088
Other than that, I think I covered everything that I could think of. It's extremely frustrating to take my computer into a guy to repair it, to which he did, then within the next few days it goes back to its old habits.
Oh, my computer literally just BSOD'd right now, how convenient..you'll be able to see that in the screenshots above. The only thing I was running this time was Soundcloud, this forum post, and had my email sectioned to share the screen with my internet browser. I'm also going to get in touch with my campus tech support in the meantime, but until then, all views are greatly appreciated.
But until then..does anyone know what could be wrong from the description above? I've exhausted all of my attempts at things I can do within my power, so I'll let it up to people who have better knowledge than myself.
Again, thanks everyone for looking and trying to help out another user, it's a pleasure to be on here with so many knowledgeable people! Have a nice weekend!
I have been having issues ever since I built this computer for Christmas with BSODs and random shut downs and/or freezes while playing graphic intensive games. These games include Payday 2, Assassin's Creed IV, Civilization V, and even Roller Coaster Tycoon 3: Platinum Edition. When I play these games, I typically use Skype at the same time to chat with friends while we game together. Here is a detailed description of what happens:
I turn on my computer, log in to my profile and wait for everything to boot up. I then get on Skype, and open up the game I want to play. Within about 15 minutes to an hour worth of playing, my game will do the BSOD, freeze, or random shut down. Once the BSOD has collected 100% of the crash info, I restart my computer and basically just repeat the process again of rebooting, etc.
If I blue screen, I wait for the data to be collected for the minidump file before I restart.
When my computer randomly freezes in game, I just restart my computer and it usually runs just fine.
When I play and my computer just randomly shuts off without warning, it tries to restart itself and I don't even have to do anything. However, when it tries to restart, it usually gets stuck in a reboot loop of trying to start back up. To explain, it turns on, but my monitor, mouse, and keyboard are not responding to it turning on. After about 5 seconds or so, it powers down, and 5 seconds later it tries to reboot itself again.
My rig is below:
Operating System
Windows 8.1 64-bit
CPU
Intel Core i5 3570K @ 3.40GHz
Ivy Bridge 22nm Technology
RAM
8.00GB Dual-Channel DDR3 @ 804MHz (11-11-11-28)
Motherboard
MSI Z77 MPower (MS-7751) (SOCKET 0) (Running on BIOS version from Dec. 2012)
Graphics
VG248 (1920x1080@60Hz)
2047MB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 770 (EVGA)
PSU
750W Corsair
Storage
931GB Seagate ST1000DM003-1CH162 (SATA)
111GB KINGSTON SH103S3120G (SSD)
Optical Drives
ASUS DRW-24B1ST i
Audio
NVIDIA Virtual Audio Device (Wave Extensible) (WDM)
To continue on, I have taken my full rig to a computer repair shop near where I live, to which they did a full scan/diagnosis of my problems and found that there are no hardware issues and that my rig was constructed successfully. I have also checked myself to see if the wattage was fine coming out of my wall (which it is, it reaches a maximum wattage of 336 while running a graphic intensive game). With all of this in mind, I've also ran tests on my own, such as memtest86 from bootable CD-ROM, Furmark for my GPU and CPU, and scanned both of my hard drives via the MS-DOS commands "chkdsk .. ". None of these tests found any problems either.
Out of all of my frustrations, I found a program called "WhoCrashed?" that read my Minidump files that the BSODs produced. Most of this information is over my head, but I could still give you some of the images from the errors they had. It also gives the error codes as well. Granted, the images may be a bit blurry..but still possible to see the codes.
Most recent to oldest:
http://gyazo.com/a40d207fd00129580ca691f57115fde9
http://gyazo.com/bc340e9aed3f9b68a65302264d9a3b23
http://gyazo.com/3f69aae6015548cc9e5820f355486088
Other than that, I think I covered everything that I could think of. It's extremely frustrating to take my computer into a guy to repair it, to which he did, then within the next few days it goes back to its old habits.
Oh, my computer literally just BSOD'd right now, how convenient..you'll be able to see that in the screenshots above. The only thing I was running this time was Soundcloud, this forum post, and had my email sectioned to share the screen with my internet browser. I'm also going to get in touch with my campus tech support in the meantime, but until then, all views are greatly appreciated.
But until then..does anyone know what could be wrong from the description above? I've exhausted all of my attempts at things I can do within my power, so I'll let it up to people who have better knowledge than myself.
Again, thanks everyone for looking and trying to help out another user, it's a pleasure to be on here with so many knowledgeable people! Have a nice weekend!
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