BSOD's Galore

[Anamodiel]

Bah. Stupid BSOD's. Don't you know I'm trying to study?!

Alright, came home from the library at midnight because I had been there since 4:30 and I was going to finish studying here because I needed a change of scenery. Went up to my room, woke my computer up from sleep like I normally do, went to watch a youtube video real quick, and WHAMO!

BSOD. It tried to restart itself after it, and it would no go past the blank screen where the '_' blinks at you. It's definitely my video card. Shut down, waited 30 seconds, and restarted. A bunch of green and red horizontal lines were on the screen, only one monitor would turn on, and my resolution was down to something like 800x600. Scared the poop out of me. Everything still functioned fine, so I went to nVidia's website to install the latest drivers, downloaded, installed, and let it restart itself. Lines were still there, so I shut down. I unplugged everything and went to clean the dust out of my computer. In all honesty, even though I haven't cleaned it out in a while, there wasn't very much dust in there. At least, not a noticeable enough amount to be causing the video card to overheat. There was none on its fan. Blew for a few minutes around there, and then blew some more around the main fan. Some dust came out, but nothing to write home about. Closed her back up, and started plugging things back in. I turned it back on with only one of my monitors plugged in, and everything looked fine. I thought I was out of the woods. Once I got to the log-in screen I shut it back down and plugged in both of my monitors. Started back up fine and I thought I was home free. Went to go watch that damn youtube video I wanted to watch... and it BSOD'd again. I had my phone camera ready so I could get the error code before it disappeared. Here it is:

STOP: 0x00000116 (0xFFFFFA8006E7A4E0,0XFFFFF8800FFC2354,0X0000000000000000,0X0000000000000000)

nvlddmkm.sys - Address FFFFF8800FFC2354 4d27c6da

Other technical information:

Windows 7 64-bit
8800 GT nVidia Card
4 GB RAM

Obviously I can look this up tomorrow on my own. My main point in posting this was to rant, get this in a place so I would just be able to copy it for tomorrow so I could have a reference of exactly what happened while it was still fresh in my mind, and to let you guys know that, if there is something seriously wrong with my hardware... I might be very shit out of luck until I get my first paycheck in the middle of May.

I'm going to pray it's a software issue...

[JP]

Vid card driver, download driversweeper, clean them out and reinstall fresh, that doesnt work, try swappin out vid card if u have an old one lying around.

reference  - http://www.carrona.org/bsodindx.html#0x00000116

[Ghisteslwchlohm]

Did it look something like this? This happened to my computer when the video card fan seized and the card overheated.

[Ash]

I think it's because he was trying to watch this...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHmvkRoEowc




LOL.  Sorry, but I had to...

[NoCry]

Togi; I think I love you.

[Subb]

Aaaahahahaha.

Srsly; stop looking at porn.

[Anamodiel]

I think it's because he was trying to watch this...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHmvkRoEowc




LOL.  Sorry, but I had to...

Normally I would ignore this, but you're actually so close to the money it's unbelievable.

http://www.youtube.com/user/BritneySpearsVEVO#p/u/0/qzU9OrZlKb8

I hate you.

[Enoch]

Same thing was happening to me last year. I kept "fixing it" with driver updates and cleaning out the computer, but my card was just dying. When it finally gave up, I took it out to clean it when I saw that two of the transistors or whatever they're called had exploded. I took a picture to commemorate the event.



It looks like you'll be having to replace yours soon. Good luck.

[Ash]

Same thing was happening to me last year. I kept "fixing it" with driver updates and cleaning out the computer, but my card was just dying. When it finally gave up, I took it out to clean it when I saw that two of the transistors or whatever they're called had exploded. I took a picture to commemorate the event.



It looks like you'll be having to replace yours soon. Good luck.

Contact the manufacturer of your PC for a possible recall on your make/model.  I say this because a few years back there were a shit-ton of capacitors (they're not called transistors) from a Vietnam company were exploding left and right.  Unfortunately these capacitors were put into almost every brand of machine and component, fortunately any reputable company gave the customer a free replacement as a result.

[Enoch]

The card was pretty old already and needed an upgrade badly. I've since upgraded the replacement, so I'm two generations from the broken card. It would not be worth it to get another one. And thanks on the capacitor clarification. I really need to learn electronics better.