For the last few days, I have been having recurring problems while playing some games. During the middle of the game, the computer will go to either a pure blue-green screen, or pure green screen, both with no text. The computer will reboot and upon reboot the bios beeps 1 long, and 8 short beeps. From everything I can find, this is a graphics card issue. My hardware is as follows:
AMD X2 255 3.1GHz
Arctic Cooling Freezer 64Pro CPU Cooler
4GB Kingston Value Ram
ASUS M4A785TD -M EVO (On Board ATI Radeon HD 4200 GPU - (DISABLED in BIOS))
MSI N260GTX-T2D896-OCv2 GeForce GTX 260 896MB 448-bit GDDR3 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP
650W Power Supply
250 GB SATAII Hard Drive
Pioneer DVD-RW
LiteOn CD-RW
Linksys wmp54G Wireless Card
Logitech G15 Keyboard
Logitec G500 Mouse
ASUS 21" Widescreen Monitor
IOGear USB Hub
Windows 7 Professional x64
Upon reboot, I am presented with an unexpected shutdown report. The contents of this report are below.
Problem signature:
Problem Event Name: BlueScreen
OS Version: 6.1.7601.2.1.0.256.48
Locale ID: 1033
Additional information about the problem:
BCCode: 124
BCP1: 0000000000000000
BCP2: FFFFFA8004CFD8F8
BCP3: 0000000000000000
BCP4: 0000000000000000
OS Version: 6_1_7601
Service Pack: 1_0
Product: 256_1
Files that help describe the problem:
C:\Windows\Minidump\070811
-25178-01.
dmp
C:\Users\******\AppData\Lo
cal\Temp\W
ER-192552-
0.sysdata.
xml
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C:\Windows\system32\en-US\
erofflps.t
xt
Looking through the event log, I cannot see anything that stands out. I have a few errors upon boot, services not starting and a few other minor things, but right before the crash there are not any errors logged. I have updated drivers, cleaned my PC out, ran a checkdisk, performed a defrag and even used a program called OCCT that will test for heat or other problems. I ran the tests on both the CPU and GPU for 1 hour each, and the CPU reached a temp of 43 degrees and the GPU reached a whopping 86, but it did not crash the computer. I am at my wits end with this, as it is annoying to be in the middle of a game and have it crash and corrupt your save games.
What services aren't starting?
I'm assuming this is a new problem and that the same games were playing OK before - can you remember roughly when this started?
Could you give some example games where this happens? (& if there are equally hardware intensive games where this doesn't happen the names of those would be useful too).