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Old 11-17-2009   #22
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All of those are great ideas. Let me know how things go.

Since it's a hardware fault, rolling back the drivers may not help but it's worth a try. If it doesn't though, a new network card is cheap.
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Rolling back drivers didn't do anything. I also haven't had a chance to test the video card, so I'm kinda screwed at the moment as far as that goes. I didn't run memtest, I'll prolly try that tonight again.

I received a bluescreen on the 17th trying to play Left 4 Dead 2. I notice this too, I usually only receive bluescreens once a game is loaded. I never received one while at a game's main menu. It either happens right after a loading screen right as the game should start to play, or in the middle of playing. When it bluescreened for Google Earth, it displayed the loading screen then bluescreened right before the program window opened.

I dunno if that holds any significance to the problem, it's just something I've took note of.

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That last dump was exactly the same as the others with the hardware failures, but it listed steam as the problem again. You could try uninstalling and reinstalling steam. Here's a page with a list of things you can try to fix steam issues. I'm tending to start to think it may be a network issue. Any chance you have a friend with an extra network card laying around that you can borrow for a bit and do some testing?
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I dunno if it would be steam. Bluescreens happen regardless if I'm using steam or not, but steam keeps showing up because the games I play are mainly through it.

As far as network cards go, no one I know uses one. Like me they use the integrated ethernet port.

What if I were to disable my ethernet port and unplug the cable? If I tried playing a game with no internet at all and still came up with a bluescreen would that tell you anything?
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Yeah, that would let us rule out the network issue if it bsod's again. That would pretty much narrow it down to memory or video card and running memtest once more all night should decide if it's memory or not and then that leaves the video card.
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Sweet deal, I'll try that then. Thanks dude.
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No problem. Let me know how things go.
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