Recurring crash - red screen and sound loop

mookraken · Feb 21, 2014

Hi,

I have a question about a crash that I keep having.

It first happened about 1-2 months ago, while playing AC4 Black Flag. The game would run fine for about 5 minutes and then the game would crash, with an endless sound loop (kind of like a buzzing or vibrating noise, if that makes any sense) and my screen would go entirely red. I couldn't alt-tab or minimize or ctrl-alt-delete; I had to restart my PC completely.

It stopped happening, so just assumed it was a random crash and forgot about it.

Now I just got the exact same crash playing DX Human Revolution.

I run both games on max settings. My specs are:

ASUS R9 280x DC2T
FX-8350 w/ Thermalright TrueSpirit 120mm cooler
ASUS M5A99X Evo R2.0
FSP Aurum CM Series AU-650M 650W 80Plus Gold
Windows 8.1
Kingston HyperX Beast 8GB (2x4)
Xonar DG PCI sound card

Does anyone have any idea what might be causing this?

Hopefully I've included all the relevant info, but let me know if more is required. Thanks!

Gaming God · Feb 21, 2014

You Have Encountered With The Red Screen Of Death (RSOD)

When Red Screen of Death is displayed, the computer does not allow any modifications and it stops accepting any commands from keyboard or mouse. The only option in such cases is that users have is to cold boot the computer.

Red Screen of Death occurs due to the issues with the graphics card that a computer system may have. Many times the graphics card driver and/or its corresponding application automatically installs softOSD.exe and sds64a.sys files that are the main cause of the issue.

How to Fix a Red Screen of Death in Windows 8?

In order to fix a red screen of death in Windows 8, step-by-step instructions given below must be followed:
1.Log on to Windows 8 computer with the administrator account.
2.Click Desktop tile from the Start screen to go to the desktop.
3.Once on the desktop screen, hover mouse to the bottom right corner.
4.From the displayed options, click Settings.
5.From Settings pane, click Control Panel.
6.On Control Panel window, click Programs category.
7.On Programs window, click Uninstall a program option under Programs and Features
category from the right pane.
8.On Programs and Features window, from the right pane, search for softOSD software.
9.Once searched, right-click the software.
10.From the displayed menu, click Uninstall/Change.
11.On the displayed confirmation box, click Yes to remove the selected application from Windows 8.
Note: Skip the removal of sds64a.sys file when prompted for deletion which resides in
C:\Windows\System32\drivers folder.
12.Close Programs and Features window when done.

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