I have been getting more frequent Blue Screens of Death over the past months. After allot of head scratching, searching and help from others in my Staffel I think my PC is finally quite stable.
So, as I know how annoying this is I thought I might share it with others in case it helps, as there is virtually no thread on this anywhere on the web that I could find. - Although allot of people are having this problem.
SPECS:
Operating System: Windows 7 Home Premium,
Processor: AMD FX (tm) 4170 Quad Core Processor (4CPU) @ 4.2 Ghz,
Mother board: ASUS M5A78L-M/USB3,
Memory: 8Gb DDR3 RAM,
Gfx card: ASUS HD EAU6850CU.
Gfx Driver: 8.950
DirectX 11
The problem:
BSOD on boot about 80% of the time, it started off occasionally but peaked over time to where it was pretty much garenteed to BSOD on the first boot.
After watching videos or playing high demand games then changing to another or pretty much doing anything before playing clod without a fresh boot, the game would minimise to desktop and windows would display a small message saying "Graphics Driver stopped responding but has recovered.". After this crash restarting the game would be fairley stable.
Flash player would also crash when ever you skipped ahead in a video say on youtube or tried to load a different video half way through the first one. - On screen message "Flash player crashed".
The solution:
Aside from having to activate the extra two cores on this mother board - which i still dont understand I also had to do the following. - made processor faster
Went into BIOS and disabled motherboard "antisurge protection". - Cured BSODS.
Went into BIOS settings (delete on boot) went to chipset, choose the 2nd (?) option and changed "Surround View" to "disabled" - Cured gfx crash
I am still testing this and so far after 24 hours so good. I tried to recreate some of the crashes and problems and so far I am unable too.... I do have out dated drivers and will try the new ones once I am convinced this setup is stable. The only game this effects is Skyrim so far and I can live without that for stability.
Just goes to show if you have a problem... -
Perservere!