Blue Screen of Death when gaming.

[Guest]

My system has been solid as a rock for the last 4 to 5 years. Now all of the
sudden, it seems, I get the BSOD when gaming. I've played this game for the
last 4 to 5 years and have my own server. I'm very clean and careful with my
PC and maintain it imbecilely. The only thing I can think of that I've done
recently that may have affected it is installing IE 7. I uninstalled it
because I found it buggy.

The BSOD does not stay up long enough for me to read it, but I do see a file
referenced at the bottom: sysaudio.sys.

I tried running sfc and that did nothing and I found sfc won't run in Safe
Mode for some reason.

Here is the message I get in the Event Log:

Event Type: Information
Event Source: Save Dump
Event Category: None
Event ID: 1001
Date: 11/7/2006
Time: 8:50:49 PM
User: N/A
Computer: NEW
Description:
The computer has rebooted from a bugcheck. The bugcheck was: 0x10000050
(0xc868246a, 0x00000000, 0xbac040d9, 0x00000000). A dump was saved in:
C:\WINDOWS\Minidump\Mini110706-03.dmp.

For more information, see Help and Support Center at
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.

I can't open the .dmp file.

Can someone help me on this?

Thanks!


-=CMD=-

 

[Ron Martell]

Description:
The computer has rebooted from a bugcheck. The bugcheck was: 0x10000050
(0xc868246a, 0x00000000, 0xbac040d9, 0x00000000). A dump was saved in:
C:\WINDOWS\Minidump\Mini110706-03.dmp.

The name of the error is PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA. "This indicates
that invalid system memory has been referenced."

See http://www.aumha.org/win5/kbestop.htm and click on the "50: Page
Fault..." link in the left side column.

Good luck


Ron Martell Duncan B.C. Canada
--
Microsoft MVP (1997 - 2006)
On-Line Help Computer Service
http://onlinehelp.bc.ca
Syberfix Remote Computer Repair

"Anyone who thinks that they are too small to make a difference
has never been in bed with a mosquito."

 

[Guest]

--
-=CMD=-

The name of the error is PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA. "This indicates
that invalid system memory has been referenced."

See http://www.aumha.org/win5/kbestop.htm and click on the "50: Page
Fault..." link in the left side column.

Good luck


Ron Martell Duncan B.C. Canada
--
Microsoft MVP (1997 - 2006)
On-Line Help Computer Service
http://onlinehelp.bc.ca
Syberfix Remote Computer Repair

"Anyone who thinks that they are too small to make a difference
has never been in bed with a mosquito."

Ron,

I discovered the problem. The drive that I ran the game program on, and only
that program, had quite a few bad sectors. I ran chkdsk /f and now all is
well so far. No more BSoD.

Thank you for you assistance.

Dave