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BSOD and freezing while playing video games
So the backstory:
I played 7 Days to Die last weekend and had an odd freeze where everything locked up and the monitor suddenly looked like this:
https://i.imgur.com/C9c5BGS.jpg
I figured maybe it was an issue of graphics card drivers needing to be updated so the next day I went ahead and updated my drivers. Later that day 7 Days to Die crashed again, the same way. Then later World of Warcraft did. At that point I figured something must be pretty wrong, as I'd been playing WoW on and off for weeks and never had any problems.
I tried dusting out the case, worrying that it was a heat issue. Eventually during one of the restarts/freezes I got to the point where the tower would boot up but the monitor stayed in Power Saver mode. After flashing the BIOS and removing the graphics card, I was able to get back into Windows. I figured maybe my graphics card was on its way out, but it couldn't hurt to format the SSD I keep Windows on and start clean before I put a new card in. So I did that, but held off on putting the card in right away as it took forever to get all the Windows Updates handled, and eventually I ended up installing Windows 10 as there were so many problems with Windows 7.
Fast forward to now where I still haven't installed a new graphics card, as when I tried to test my system out by running some games (Rocket League, which completely freezes up on the title screen; Beseige, which plays fine but within 5-10 minutes causes a BSOD of System_Service_Exception) it didn't end well. So now I'm here, hoping someone can help get my system back to gaming like it was built for instead of this shallow, empty existence.
So far the steps I've taken are:
- Dusted out the case/components.
- Removed the suspected issue (dead or dying graphics card).
- Formatted the SSD to get a clean Windows install.
- Ran 8 passes of MemTest with 0 errors.
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