What causes the blue screen of death?

I was just playing counter strike source and the screen pop up blue and computer restarted. this had happened to me before but i overclocked my video card. my video card is stock when i played it.

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pentium 4 3.4ghz

2gig ram ddr2 sdram

Nvidia evga 9800gt 512mb

BSOD errors are hardware-related errors

it might just be a one off, in which case there's nothing to really worry about.

if it happens again, the first thing to do would be to check you're using the latest nVidia drivers and that Windows is up to date.

BSOD errors are hardware-related errors

it might just be a one off, in which case there's nothing to really worry about.

if it happens again, the first thing to do would be to check you're using the latest nVidia drivers and that Windows is up to date.

broken_bass_bin

I was just playing counter strike source and the screen pop up blue and computer restarted. this had happened to me before but i overclocked my video card. my video card is stock when i played it.

myspaces:

pentium 4 3.4ghz

2gig ram ddr2 sdram

Nvidia evga 9800gt 512mbiam2green

It should technically be a BSOD, not the BSOD, because there are different kinds. You would have to write down what it said the error was for us to help you better...

hmm, that might be the problem

i'd try going back to the other drivers

**** YOU ish27. jk jk, I swear that thing is a freaking virus man

BSOD errors are hardware-related errors

it might just be a one off, in which case there's nothing to really worry about.

if it happens again, the first thing to do would be to check you're using the latest nVidia drivers and that Windows is up to date.

broken_bass_bin

I get it like every 2 hours.

My pc still works fine though so i just ignore it.

I get it like every 2 hours.

My pc still works fine though so i just ignore it.

Blazingfury08

If you look what the Blue screen of error says it is a STOP error then code like #0000009c or something then look that code up in microsoft tell you what it means.

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BSOD errors are hardware-related errors

it might just be a one off, in which case there's nothing to really worry about.

if it happens again, the first thing to do would be to check you're using the latest nVidia drivers and that Windows is up to date.

Love_Hina_Lover

Yeah could be anything really. I've had BSOD from putting too many USB and over going the bandwidth.

it could be a motherboard in need of a bios update perhaps??

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BSOD errors are hardware-related errors

it might just be a one off, in which case there's nothing to really worry about.

if it happens again, the first thing to do would be to check you're using the latest nVidia drivers and that Windows is up to date.

teddyrob

Yeah could be anything really. I've had BSOD from putting too many USB and over going the bandwidth.

That would also be classified as a hardware issue : drawing too much power from the USB hub can causea PC to crash.

Well, you can use Windows Debugging Tools to find out what is causing the BSOD.

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[QUOTE="Love_Hina_Lover"] BSOD errors can be hardware related but now always. BSOD errors are unhandled errors that cause the system to crash. These can be from hardware related problems(the most common being memory related), to unhandled software or deadlock errors. The easiest way to troble shoot the error is to post what the error said and ill try to see if i can help youGog

Yeah could be anything really. I've had BSOD from putting too many USB and over going the bandwidth.

That would also be classified as a hardware issue : drawing too much power from the USB hub can causea PC to crash.

No it's a bandwidth issue. Nothing to do with drawing too much power. It will do it on all computers.

What this means is that you may run out of bandwidth if you try to connect another high bandwidth device to that host controller. Examples of such devices include other video cameras, USB headsets, and scanners.

I know this from running video cameras on USB. There is a limit to how many I can connect before the exceed the bandwdth. There fore it is only best to connect one to each host controller.

I run about 3-4 of them before it exceeds bandwidth. We need USB3.0

I dont understan how exceeding bandwidth though would cause a bluescreen through a USB host controller. If anything your transfer rates would simply drop wince they are sharing the bandwidth