Blue Screen of Death now Falcon BMS won't run
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Captain obvious here, if your DSP overheats, what about the rest of components???
That is, mobo chips, SATA controller, USB controller, CPU, GPU. They can and WILL burn down and not just remind with BSODs.
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Captain obvious here, if your DSP overheats, what about the rest of components???
That is, mobo chips, SATA controller, USB controller, CPU, GPU. They can and WILL burn down and not just remind with BSODs.
Good evening, sthalik,
I’m not sure what DSP is, but if that refers to the graphics card I had overheat that prompted my new computer, the fan failed on the card and I didn’t notice. Of course it was 8 yrs old with many thousands of hours on it (CAD, GAMES, etc.). But, just in case, I’ve got plenty of cooling capacity now. I have found a couple driver problems thanks to the help from this forum and kind folks like yourself, so I’m confident it’s closer to being solved. Watching football tonight, though, so I’ll finish this weekend!
Thanks again!
All my best, Rob
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Hi there Rob:
I see you are taking the things with patience and this is a very good recipe for a final success.
I am very confident that you will solve the problem once you check the sound card. The good thing of your BSOD is 1) that is clearly pointing at the soundcard and 2) that the BSOD can be reproduced very easily. (In your detailed reports you have said that it happens when comitting to a furball). That is a good sign that it may be software related.
I have one new question for you:
on the screen to set up a 1v1 dogfight furball, when I clicked commit I got the BSOD
This has always been the case, or it worked before and started happening suddenly one day?
Best regards
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DSP=digital signal processor commonly for sound cards.
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Good morning, all,
Although not assured of success yet, I did find the following problem and corrected it:
The eVGA card is plugged into my monitor with an HDMI cable. I kept my monitor when I upgraded since it was fairly new, but had originally had it connected with a DVI cable since my old graphics card didn’t have HDMI. The new graphics card can send sound over the HDMI to a device with speakers. My monitor has speakers…didn’t remember that since the speaker grills are in a location where they’re not visible! So, I disabled the HDMI sound and after an hour or so this morning it ran without crashing.
I’m not sure I’m home free yet since it would run before and crash after a couple hours, but I did go back and forth between the game and the furball screen several times and changing the adversary airplane and everything ran as it should. I’ll try saving the world a bit this weekend and test the stability over a period longer than a couple hours and report back.
I probably should have figured this out, but I’d forgotten that HDMI had the bandwidth for sound, too. Alas, the technology once again is outrunning my (limited) knowledge!!
I know absolutely nothing about it, but I suspect the sound card driver for my sound card shown on the BSOD was flagged as it was competing with the HDMI driver, and the HDMI driver must have had a higher priority. Once again, keep in mind that I’m going out on a limb and know nothing about it in reality…just a WAG.
Thank you again to all you gents for your time, assistance, and patience. I’ll be sure to report back and close the loop.
Warmest regards,
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If speakers by HDMI do something, it’s in your interest to analyze it.
Still, worst case it can turn out is breaking the jack or ADSP itself. In the former case, you got a spare jack in front of the PC.
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Good afternoon, All,
Sorry for the delay. After a while, the BSOD returned, and still identified the driver for the Asus sound card. I finally removed the card and all it’s drivers and went into the bios and turned on the on board sound. Now, after 3 days and many hours, there are no more BSOD. It appears to be a problem only with Falcon and the card since every other use of the sound card (CD, DVD, iTunes, Strike Fighters 2, etc.) never had a problem. Only Falcon BMS.
On board sound is not nearly as good for the music and movies, but it’s OK for the game.
Thanks again to all for your help, input, and patience. I wouldn’t have got as far as I did without your assistance.
Warmest regards,
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Same story I had with a Creative Sound Blaster EX did the same thing looooong time ago.
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Good afternoon, Arty,
Funny you should say that; I had a Creative Sound Blaster audio card in the last computer that worked well with Falcon BMS until I upgraded drivers in 2013…then, Falcon crashed (but no BSOD). Once I restored to before the drivers it was fine again. That was actually the reason I went with a different brand sound card; I blamed the sound card. Perhaps that was hasty.
Perhaps the Falcon BMS audio stuff is very finicky with sound cards? Maybe someone far more knowledgeable with computers than me will know the answer!
Thanks again for the feedback and information. It’s very helpful!
All my best,
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Nope Falcon has a thing with audio in general, or the audio part driver wise is problematic via pci slots.
Sound Blaster is long gone before Open Falcon era.