So I've been having computer crashes in increasing amount over the last couple months. I'm thinking it is a hardware failure of some kind, but I'm not sure how to verify besides swapping out parts, which I don't have. After a couple hours of gaming, my computer will completely crash, screen glitches out, speakers freeze on the last tone, then eventually I get a blue screen or I have to hit the power button which causes an immediate shutdown. I've been playing all games through steam as of late, but it doesn't seem to matter how graphic intensive the game is. Yesterday it happened while playing Minecraft. I was running the server though.
My computer is 4 years old now.
My specs:
Windows 7
ASUS P8 Z77-V PRO Motherboard
AMD Radeon 7800, 2 gb
i7 3770K 3.5 GHz
SSD HD for OS
2 reg HD for game installs
I recently wiped my SSD and reinstalled the OS hoping this would help. It did not. Since I just reinstalled, I should have all the latest drivers as I did not install anything but the OS from the disk and then Windows update anything it wanted to. My chipset is decent enough where I could run Minecraft for a while without the graphics card to test that it is a graphics card failure, but I'm not sure exactly how to force it to fail, so I would have to run like this for a couple days to be sure.
I have the two crash dump files (a dmp and xml) but I'm not sure how to read them or if the data would make any sense to me anyway. I work with computers all day, but not in an IT forensic respect. The Event Logger never says anything besides that the logger shutdown and the computer came back on.
I've run defrag and disk checks. Is there another test I could run? Is there some catches I can add to the event logger for next time? Please help point me in the right direction.
My computer is 4 years old now.
My specs:
Windows 7
ASUS P8 Z77-V PRO Motherboard
AMD Radeon 7800, 2 gb
i7 3770K 3.5 GHz
SSD HD for OS
2 reg HD for game installs
I recently wiped my SSD and reinstalled the OS hoping this would help. It did not. Since I just reinstalled, I should have all the latest drivers as I did not install anything but the OS from the disk and then Windows update anything it wanted to. My chipset is decent enough where I could run Minecraft for a while without the graphics card to test that it is a graphics card failure, but I'm not sure exactly how to force it to fail, so I would have to run like this for a couple days to be sure.
I have the two crash dump files (a dmp and xml) but I'm not sure how to read them or if the data would make any sense to me anyway. I work with computers all day, but not in an IT forensic respect. The Event Logger never says anything besides that the logger shutdown and the computer came back on.
I've run defrag and disk checks. Is there another test I could run? Is there some catches I can add to the event logger for next time? Please help point me in the right direction.
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