- Sep 26, 2011
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This is going to be lengthy. To start off about three years ago I built my own computer. It has the following specs:
Fx-4100
Seasonic 620 watt psu
HIS ICEQ 6850 turbo
Corsair Vengance 8GB 2 x 4 ram
Windows 8.1
GIGABYTE GA-970A-UD3 AM3+
The issue: At any time, my computer screen will turn a random color, this color is almost always the color of my taskbar based on my current wallpaper. Soound still works, in fact during the latest crash I could even skype. My only option is a manual reboot.
The steps I took to try and fix it.
Updated EVERYTHING. I even flashed my Bios.
Reinstalled windows.
Ran Memtest.
Ran furmark.
Ran prime 95.
REPLACED PSU WITH NEW SEASONIC PSU.
Underclocked GPU and messed with voltages to try and make it stable. Has seemed to have worked for a while but might have been placebo as this issue can go away for weeks and then appear 5 times in a day.
Reseated everything.
For the longest time I was sure it was my psu, I even replaced it. The next conclusion is the GPU, however it rarely ever crashes during a game. I play a lot of league of legends, among other games and in the 2000 games I have probably played, it has only crashed twice during league.
The crashing first became apparent during my playing of kotor, a very old and very undemanding game. For some reason, the less resources I am using the more likely a crash is to occur.
However as of last night I made a discovery
I looked in event viewer, and noticed something I hadn't before.
The driver \Driver\WudfRd failed to load for the device SWD\SensorsAndLocationEnum\LPSensorSWDevice.
So I went and started driver verifier. For those who don't know, it tries to force a blue screen and then creates a dump file of what caused it.
So I tried reading the dump file, however most of the dump file was text about symbols being unable to be read (???) but at the end it said the most likely reason for the crash: ntoskrnl.exe[ ( nt+692934 )
What next? I already spent a good sum of money replacing one part. I don't want to randomly replace parts and I am willing to try anything.
Fx-4100
Seasonic 620 watt psu
HIS ICEQ 6850 turbo
Corsair Vengance 8GB 2 x 4 ram
Windows 8.1
GIGABYTE GA-970A-UD3 AM3+
The issue: At any time, my computer screen will turn a random color, this color is almost always the color of my taskbar based on my current wallpaper. Soound still works, in fact during the latest crash I could even skype. My only option is a manual reboot.
The steps I took to try and fix it.
Updated EVERYTHING. I even flashed my Bios.
Reinstalled windows.
Ran Memtest.
Ran furmark.
Ran prime 95.
REPLACED PSU WITH NEW SEASONIC PSU.
Underclocked GPU and messed with voltages to try and make it stable. Has seemed to have worked for a while but might have been placebo as this issue can go away for weeks and then appear 5 times in a day.
Reseated everything.
For the longest time I was sure it was my psu, I even replaced it. The next conclusion is the GPU, however it rarely ever crashes during a game. I play a lot of league of legends, among other games and in the 2000 games I have probably played, it has only crashed twice during league.
The crashing first became apparent during my playing of kotor, a very old and very undemanding game. For some reason, the less resources I am using the more likely a crash is to occur.
However as of last night I made a discovery
I looked in event viewer, and noticed something I hadn't before.
The driver \Driver\WudfRd failed to load for the device SWD\SensorsAndLocationEnum\LPSensorSWDevice.
So I went and started driver verifier. For those who don't know, it tries to force a blue screen and then creates a dump file of what caused it.
So I tried reading the dump file, however most of the dump file was text about symbols being unable to be read (???) but at the end it said the most likely reason for the crash: ntoskrnl.exe[ ( nt+692934 )
What next? I already spent a good sum of money replacing one part. I don't want to randomly replace parts and I am willing to try anything.
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