DMA Violation BSOD

[MGWT1981]

Yesterday, I downloaded Fallout 3, since it was on sale from Steam. Shortly after, my PC crashed with a BSOD.

The info is that it rebooted due to a bugchck (code below). I searched online and it says the code refers to a DMA violation. And that is what the BSOD stated as well. However, I did not recently update any drivers.

0x000000e6 (0x0000000000000026, 0x0000000000000000, 0x0000000045050400, 0x0000000000000004)

 

After the reboot, the Computer functioned fine. I even restarted it after the reboot to be sure. Was able to play Marvel's Spiderman with no issues. 

But it still bothers me. 

Is this just some random weird thing that happened or should I be concerned?

 

Thanks 

[solado]

DMA violation refers to a driver in most cases.

 

If it's a one off, not to worry really. If it happens again go through your system and upgrade the drivers. GPU, Chipset etc.

[MGWT1981]

13 minutes ago, solado said:

DMA violation refers to a driver in most cases.

 

If it's a one off, not to worry really. If it happens again go through your system and upgrade the drivers. GPU, Chipset etc.

Thanks for the reply.

I will do that if it happens again. I suppose what confuses me is that all my drivers are up to date. I make sure the GPU is especially up to date and windows updated just a few days ago, so not sure why it occurred. Oh well. 

Is there a "time-limit" to determine if it is a one off? Or is it just "wait and see." 

I am currently on the PC and it is working just fine. 

Thanks again

[solado]

9 minutes ago, MGWT1981 said:

so not sure why it occurred

New drivers and actually bring about BSOD and crashes. I upgraded mine recently and had to roll it back to an older version because it was crash in production applications.

 

10 minutes ago, MGWT1981 said:

Is there a "time-limit" to determine if it is a one off? Or is it just "wait and see." 

With these things, it can happen once and never again or happen every day, hard to say. Just wait and see.