Blue Screening in Games (AMD A Series)

[MrSparkzz]

Everytime I play Call of Duty 4 it tends to blue screen, but the thing is, it's completely random. Sometimes I can play for hours, sometimes it's mere minutes. But that seems to be the only game it blue screens in, sometimes it just freezes and crashes.

I get around 100 FPS solid all settings maxed out, until it crashes (specs below).

I have overclocked the apu to 4.2GHz (stock cooler), and increased the vram to 512MB. There is no dedicated graphics card. The RAM is also overclocked to 2133MHz (default 1866MHz).

I have heard other people having this problem with replies like "Maybe it's overheating?" It only started to crash/blue screen about two days after the overclock and that same day was the day I changed the gun camos. I'm gonna try removing the custom camos and if that stops the crashing, I will come back here.

Help would be greatly appreciated!

Specs:

• AMD A10-5800K Quad Core - 3.8GHz default; 4.2GHz boost
• Stock AMD Cooler
• ASRock FM2A75M-DGS Micro ATX FM2
• PNY 8GB (4GB x 2) - 1866MHz default; 2133MHz overclock
• Thermaltake TR2 430W PSU

 

[Finch]

Try Running it with no overclock and see if you still get the same problems.

 

[yassarikhan786]

Have you re-tried with default settings?

 

[dragoonk]

Obviously there is an overclock problem here. Got to stock settings, then rethink your overclock.

 

[MrSparkzz]

Obviously there is an overclock problem here. Got to stock settings, then rethink your overclock.

I removed the custom camos in Call of Duty and it seems to run fine, kinda a bummer that I can't use custom camos. :/ Or maybe its just delaying the crash/blue screen (only played it for about an hour).

 

[dragoonk]

Play more, keep the stock sett. for a couple of days. If there are no blue screens happening then you can rule out other issue and blame the overclock. Then try overclocking it slightly till it becomes unstable, then revert to last known stable OC configuration and keep it there. Also you may want to increase the Vcore a bit when it becomes unstable, and watch the temps... it helps. Overclocking can take time so don't rush it.

 

[MrSparkzz]

Play more, keep the stock sett. for a couple of days. If there are no blue screens happening then you can rule out other issue and blame the overclock.

I removed the Overclock on the APU, but the boost clock finally started working so it's back up to 4.2GHz Auto, I oveclocked the IGPU to 950MHz. It ran Call of Duty 4 fine for about 3 days straight, but I got another blue screen, I think it has something to do with the RAM, because one of the times I was playing it just crashed without a blue screen and I couldn't do anything. A message kept popping up when I tried to open an application that said something like "0xNUMBERS could not access memory." (not exactly that). I'm thinking maybe reseating the RAM or underclocking it?

 

[dragoonk]

If you suspect the RAM then reset everything to stock and test each memory module with Prime95 blend test or Memtest for extended periods of time. Also try setting the RAM at its rated voltage manually, and you should take the RAM out of the slots and try reseating them.
Did running everything at stock help?

 

[Deejeta]

My money is on the temps, ram, psu or the game itself.
Check your temps - hwMonitor etc.
Do memTest
Run a single stick at stock then oc'd. Stress test (cod4 in your case)
Do this for both.
Should determine if you have bad ram.
Are you loading the xmp profile or doing it manually? You may have to play with the timings a little for 2133 speeds.

Also is this happening in other games apart from cod?

Could also be that cheap and nasty psu buckling under the pressure of heavy workloads.

Best of luck.

 

[BPRSM]

Just a thought, it could be a power supply problem. I had a PC that had similar problems (without overclock though) and I kept getting crashes when running intensive games and I bought a new power supply and it solved the problem.

Don't take my word for it, but it could be something looking into.