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Getting the wonderful bluescreen

JAW96
By JAW96
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First off sorry if this is in the wrong section, couldn't find one that would seem to fit.

 

  every now and again my PC will blue screen without warning, and after a hard restart will act as if nothing happened, and go on for weeks, or months at a time without doing it again.

I have noticed a pattern with it though, that is it only seems to occur if I'm watching a YouTube videos for a long period of time, and is perfectly fine while surfing the web, playing video games, etc.

 

   This isn't super urgent, and so far has done no real harm (besides clearing out my SSD cache every time I hard restart!)

 

 

 

 

MoBo: 970A-D3P CPU: FX-8350 GPU: HD 7950 PSU: 1000watt RAM:8Gb of G,skill 1600

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Try downloading BlueScreen View ( http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/blue_screen_view.html#DownloadLinks )

It will highlight the files that caused the bluescreen you selected (Bluescreens are in the top half, files are in the bottom half), then what I've done is just google the file name followed by "BSOD" for solutions to the problem.

 

(I got BSOD 4 times today all because of a stupid wireless driver, and the bluescreen view program was what I used to find out what the problem was)

Specs: CPU - Intel i7 8700K @ 5GHz | GPU - Gigabyte GTX 970 G1 Gaming | Motherboard - ASUS Strix Z370-G WIFI AC | RAM - XPG Gammix DDR4-3000MHz 32GB (2x16GB) | Main Drive - Samsung 850 Evo 500GB M.2 | Other Drives - 7TB/3 Drives | CPU Cooler - Corsair H100i Pro | Case - Fractal Design Define C Mini TG | Power Supply - EVGA G3 850W

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Overheating issues? Try dusting out your PC and cleaning out the fans

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youtube uses adobe flash

 

and adobe flash don't like AMD drivers

 

but the fix is simple

 

just disable Hardware acceleration  

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Overheating issues? Try dusting out your PC and cleaning out the fans

my temps are fine, and besides if I didn't already check that why would it do it while watching videos, but not while playing games

MoBo: 970A-D3P CPU: FX-8350 GPU: HD 7950 PSU: 1000watt RAM:8Gb of G,skill 1600

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youtube uses adobe flash

 

and adobe flash don't like AMD drivers

 

but the fix is simple

 

just disable Hardware acceleration  

That's true, my laptop BSODs a lot when watching videos other than on Youtube, only it gives a little warning, that the display driver has crashed and has recovered fully (even though I know it hasn't) a full reboot solves everything... temporarily.

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