Bsod testing

[egaylord05]

Hi all,

I have been having issues with my computer where it will crash whenever doing anything graphically intensive. Like the reasonable person I am I decided to take it to Geek Squad after being stumped when trying to fix the issue. Just wondering if there is some way to test for BSODs outside of windows or if it was total bs for the reason why they needed to keep my PC longer. 

[Bombastinator]

53 minutes ago, egaylord05 said:

Hi all,

I have been having issues with my computer where it will crash whenever doing anything graphically intensive. Like the reasonable person I am I decided to take it to Geek Squad after being stumped when trying to fix the issue. Just wondering if there is some way to test for BSODs outside of windows or if it was total bs for the reason why they needed to keep my PC longer. 

Crash after boot doing hard things has a pretty good possibility of being a memory problem in either the dram or the video card. Memtest86 can do a rough check on the dram.  Need special tools and expertise to check for memory problems on video cards though.  Stuff hardcore enough geek squad might not even have the tools and will just RMA the card.

[egaylord05]

8 minutes ago, Bombastinator said:

Crash after boot doing hard things has a pretty good possibility of being a memory problem in either the dram or the video card. Memtest86 can do a rough check on the dram.  Need special tools and expertise to check for memory problems on video cards though.  Stuff hardcore enough geek squad might not even have the tools and will just RMA the card.

In other words it sounds like there is no way to check BSODs outside of windows.

[Bombastinator]

9 minutes ago, egaylord05 said:

In other words it sounds like there is no way to check BSODs outside of windows.

Outside of windows?  BSOD are literally a windows thing.  With other OSes you’ll get crashes but not BSODs  The BSOD is actually sort of a feature, because it will theoretically help tell you why something crashed (though it often doesn’t in practice)  You could load, say a Linux off a liveCD which might tell you something if it DOESNT crash, but frequently Linux versions of PC games are just the PC game in a wrapper.