Random BSoDs

[TheMarshmallowBear]

For a year now I've been getting BSoD, mostly when playing Sims 3, which as we all know is frigging extensive on the CPU either way. ANYWAYS

Civilization 5 also did it, but a lot less often. Sims 2 hanged but no BSoD, just.. hanged.

So... I've been dying to figure out what's causing it. BlueViewer gave nothing except pointing to nskrnl or whatever( that kernel thingy)

Until today, somesite referred to checking the Errors in the Event Viewer.. to my surprise and horror, I saw this

"A fatal hardware error has occurred.

Component: AMD Northbridge
Error Source: Machine Check Exception
Error Type: HyperTransport Watchdog Timeout Error
Processor ID: 0

The details view of this entry contains further information."

Is this as obvious as it seems? Because if yes, then.. great.

 

[leif erikson]

Just did some google searches and do not think it is obvious at all.

Do not know your hardware configuration, but you can read some of these and see what you think:
From Tom's Hardware forum.

From a techspot forum.

This looked helpful.

From a STEAM forum.

Hope this helps.

 

[TheMarshmallowBear]

Thanks, everything points to hardware and I think it might infact be overheating since when at load my CPU reaches up to 70c, which usualyl when looked up I was told is fine.

 

[leif erikson]

Wouldn't be surprised if it is overheating. Probably the number one computer problem, besides the operator, of course.

edit - no reflection on your abilities, please be assured.

 

[TheMarshmallowBear]

Wouldn't be surprised if it is overheating. Probably the number one computer problem, besides the operator, of course.

edit - no reflection on your abilities, please be assured.

Oh believe me leif, to this I question how it is possible that I refer to myself as a gamer but have NO idea how to even properly format a computer

But I think my fault was ignoring my intuition all this time people many people said that the 70c for CPU is "normal" when at load so I have always assumed it was something else.

I think I'll try to tone down and just overall clean up the pc, thanks a lot leif :3 I appreciate this help immensly, just hoping that is it and I don't need to fork over any money to replace anything

 

[Zelig]

70C is fine.

Really, to diagnose "random" it's a process of elimination.

1. Boot to memtest86+, run for 24 hours.
2. Run Prime 95 on each of small/large FFT and blend settings for 24 hours.
3. Run Furmark for a while.