1st BSOD In Years

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Neptune24
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1st BSOD In Years

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Hi guys,

Ok so my girlfriend was playing her game (Sims 3) and the computer blue screened.

Now this is the first one I have seen in years so some questions.

Does windows create a log when this happens?
If it does, where can I find it?
And if the GPU gets too warm can this cause a BSOD?

Will update as and when.

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Re: 1st BSOD In Years

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Too many possibilities to just shoot out ideas.

See if you can find a log of the error and if not run CrystalDiskInfo to make sure the hard drive is okay.
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Re: 1st BSOD In Years

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Windows 7 Log File Location:
Right Click on Computer->Manage->Event Viewer->Windows Logs->Application. Look for Yellow Triangles or Red Circles. Select the Error and open the General tab. From there you can see what caused the problem. If you still can't figure it out then Google the Exception code.

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Re: 1st BSOD In Years

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OK poking about in the log files (and not being allowed to open the dump files) it would seem that a bug check was the issue.

To what this actually means I have not the foggiest but so far (touch wood) it hasn't happened again.

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Operating System: Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit (6.1, Build 7600)
Mother Board: Gigabyte GA-880GM-UD2H
BIOS: Award Modular BIOS v6.00PG
Processor: AMD PhenomII X4 965 Processor, 3.4GHz(Stock)
Memory: 16GB RAM
Graphics Card: GeForce GTX 550 Ti Memory: 1024 MB
GPU Driver:
8.17.12.7061
Direct X 11
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