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Joey M.
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As the title states, I've been having somewhat frequent BSODs since I've been using Windows 10. At first, I upgraded from Windows 7 and thought perhaps something had gone wrong with the upgrade (they were happening quite often and giving me a wide range of stop codes). I tried redoing the upgrade and various other things to attempt to fix the problem, but nothing worked. I eventually ended up getting a new SSD and a completely fresh install of Windows 10 on that drive (discarding my old hard drive entirely). The rest of my hardware remained the same.
I thought this fixed the problem, as it didn't seem like I was getting BSODs any more, until I did, a few days, perhaps, after the fresh install on the brand new drive. So I've continued trying to figure out what's causing it: replaced my older 2 sticks of RAM (still have 2 others from before), updated as much as I could, etc. I got some new RAM since I suspected it might be a problem with that (and I figured I could use more RAM anyway...), and the sticks I replaced were quite old, so I figured the most likely ones to be bad. Nothing has helped, I still get the blue screens now and then (though at least now it is pretty consistently giving me the "System Service Exception" code). I don't know why and can never predict when they will happen; they occur whether I'm doing something intensive like gaming or using less intensive programs (I just had one when I was working in the Unity game engine on something small).
My primary suspect right now is my headphone drivers. I'm using a Gamecom 780 headset, which is also quite old. It doesn't have Windows 10 drivers, so I had to install drivers for Windows 8 (or 8.1, I don't remember right now). They work fine, but maybe the drivers malfunction occasionally for some reason. I just figured I'd see if I can get some answers here before getting a new headset too, since this one works fine other than this potential problem.
Hopefully I can get this figured out here, finally.
(I know there's a way to share the dump file, but don't remember how to do that, so if that is required, I'll need some instruction on that.)
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I thought this fixed the problem, as it didn't seem like I was getting BSODs any more, until I did, a few days, perhaps, after the fresh install on the brand new drive. So I've continued trying to figure out what's causing it: replaced my older 2 sticks of RAM (still have 2 others from before), updated as much as I could, etc. I got some new RAM since I suspected it might be a problem with that (and I figured I could use more RAM anyway...), and the sticks I replaced were quite old, so I figured the most likely ones to be bad. Nothing has helped, I still get the blue screens now and then (though at least now it is pretty consistently giving me the "System Service Exception" code). I don't know why and can never predict when they will happen; they occur whether I'm doing something intensive like gaming or using less intensive programs (I just had one when I was working in the Unity game engine on something small).
My primary suspect right now is my headphone drivers. I'm using a Gamecom 780 headset, which is also quite old. It doesn't have Windows 10 drivers, so I had to install drivers for Windows 8 (or 8.1, I don't remember right now). They work fine, but maybe the drivers malfunction occasionally for some reason. I just figured I'd see if I can get some answers here before getting a new headset too, since this one works fine other than this potential problem.
Hopefully I can get this figured out here, finally.
(I know there's a way to share the dump file, but don't remember how to do that, so if that is required, I'll need some instruction on that.)
Continue reading...