Machine Check Exception (BSOD)

2010-02-21 12:27:04

#1

Bevo: Nah; +718|6780|Austin, Texas

Been getting a lot of these lately on my PC. Wikipedia suggests it's a hardware issue. My PC is cool as a cucumber, so it's not overheating. Seems to be happening whenever it's under a decent but not exuberant amount of stress.

Crashes usually occur when I'm playing BF2:BC or whenever I have hammer and tf2 open simultaneously.

I can't afford to do anything drastic because my laptop was just sent in for repair and I need a computer for school work. It's not a dell computer so there's no real support to call, and the place that built it will probably just tell me to bring it in.

Anything I can do? I can pursue it more easily once I get my laptop back, but that might be another week or two.

2010-02-21 12:27:59

#2

Flaming_Maniac: prince of insufficient light; +2,490|6965|67.222.138.85

run memtest86

2010-02-21 12:30:37

#3

Bevo: Nah; +718|6780|Austin, Texas

Flaming_Maniac wrote:
run memtest86

only installable from a floppy?

2010-02-21 12:32:34

#4

Flaming_Maniac: prince of insufficient light; +2,490|6965|67.222.138.85

or a bootable cd/usb stick

2010-02-21 12:34:51

#5

Bevo: Nah; +718|6780|Austin, Texas

Flaming_Maniac wrote:
or a bootable cd/usb stick

how do I get it to boot from the usb?

2010-02-21 12:39:34

#6

bugz: Fission Mailed; +3,311|6571

"Removable device" should be an option in the Boot priority section of the BIOS

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2010-02-21 12:46:58

#7

Bevo: Nah; +718|6780|Austin, Texas

my kb and mouse don't get power until after the windows splash. I can't even get to the boot menu. Wtf.

ed: also TF2 now takes forever to "prepare to launch", dunno if it's connected.

Last edited by Bevo (2010-02-21 12:59:14)

2010-02-21 18:21:51

#8

Bevo: Nah; +718|6780|Austin, Texas

bump? Bevo is sadface.

2010-02-21 18:34:16

#9

Flaming_Maniac: prince of insufficient light; +2,490|6965|67.222.138.85

use one of various utilities to make a bootable image

might need ps/2 devices to get to boot menu

2010-02-21 18:35:39

#10

Bevo: Nah; +718|6780|Austin, Texas

Flaming_Maniac wrote:
use one of various utilities to make a bootable image

might need ps/2 devices to get to boot menu

thats what my friend said, i dont have random old shit lying around

is there no way to tell it to enter boot menu upon reboot?

2010-02-21 18:37:48

#11

Flaming_Maniac: prince of insufficient light; +2,490|6965|67.222.138.85

If you can't get into BIOS then you're pretty much fucked.

2010-02-21 18:39:03

#12

Bevo: Nah; +718|6780|Austin, Texas

Flaming_Maniac wrote:
If you can't get into BIOS then you're pretty much fucked.

cooool

2010-02-21 20:52:25

#13

Catbox: forgiveness; +505|6975

run chkdsk
you can right click on the C drive that has your OS on it... then choose properties... tools
then choose error checking.... than it will need to reboot to check for errors before startup.

it also might be your power supply under stress?

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2010-02-21 21:19:05

#14

tazz.: oz.; +1,338|6433|Sydney | ♥

Did you know that the Windows Disk has memtest in it?

tru stori. I found i while i was changing the default wallpaper to pronz to prank a mate.

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2010-02-21 21:19:40

#15

GC_PaNzerFIN: Work and study @ Technical Uni; +528|6673|Finland

It just isn't very good memtest.

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2010-02-21 21:32:06

#16

Flaming_Maniac: prince of insufficient light; +2,490|6965|67.222.138.85

memory is finicky enough as it is...running a memtest that will give you any more false positives than the absolute bare minimum just makes things worse.

2010-02-21 23:46:35

#17

Bevo: Nah; +718|6780|Austin, Texas

just got a windows error saying it was unable to save some random shit in some place i've never heard of, then it said it was probably due to hardware failure.

2010-02-23 08:18:02

#18

Flaming_Maniac: prince of insufficient light; +2,490|6965|67.222.138.85

at least run Orthos for 20 min

2010-02-23 09:38:53

#19

steelie34: pub hero!; +603|6640|the land of bourbon

defo sounds like a memory issue. try removing and swapping sticks of memory to see if it goes away. and go find a ps/2 keyboard.

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2010-03-10 19:14:27

#20

Bevo: Nah; +718|6780|Austin, Texas

Gotten 6 more blue screens of death today. I loaded up BlueScreenViewer, and it seems they're all caused by hal.dll, Hardware Abstraction Layer DLL.

I'm assuming it's some sort of hardware issue then, but dunno what still. I want to drop it off at the place that built it while I'm off at spring break. If the repairs will be too high I'll probably just scrap this PC and build something from near scratch.

2010-03-10 19:20:25

#21

13urnzz: Banned; +5,830|6756

the hal is an essential system file. that means the os is essentially toasted. anything on the drive you wanna keep?

2010-03-10 19:35:44

#22

Bevo: Nah; +718|6780|Austin, Texas

burnzz wrote:
the hal is an essential system file. that means the os is essentially toasted. anything on the drive you wanna keep?

it can all go to hell as far as i'm concerned

so this is an OS issue not a hardware issue? I mean i'm no expert but it does say hardware...

2010-03-10 19:37:33

#23

Flaming_Maniac: prince of insufficient light; +2,490|6965|67.222.138.85

It could mean your hard drive is going bad and OS sectors are fucked, it could mean your memory is going bad and is making your OS fuck up, it could mean you just need to format and reinstall windows.

2010-03-10 20:41:51

#24

FFLink: There is.; +1,380|6950|Devon, England

You can replace the hal.dll file with one that's on your Windows disc, see if it sorts it.

Also, run HDTune to see if you do have any bad hard drive sectors.

2010-03-10 20:47:33

#25

13urnzz: Banned; +5,830|6756

FFLink wrote:
You can replace the hal.dll file with one that's on your Windows disc, see if it sorts it.

technically you can't - you could replace the file "hal.dll" which is a dynamic link library, the hardware abstraction layer itself is created each time you boot. it's part of the process. that's why it's important to have the correct drivers for your hardware.

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