Dolphin gave me a BSOD.

[EmuFan23]

The first thing you are probably gonna ask me, is if i oc´d. NO. Drivers are updated. Everything is in order. This is the FIRST TIME i got a BSOD with the operative system i am using. And it happened while i was using Dolphin. What gives?

I don´t remember precisely what revision i was using, but it was one of the 19xx revisions. (I just remembered it was build 1943.)

Why did Dolphin (And it was MOST DEFINITELY Dolphin) give me a BSOD?

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[ARC@NO]

I think the crash could be due to various things, the message that appeared on the BSOD should be more precise about the crashing.

Also, is it happened again or just that time???, I had a hang using Dolphin a days ago, but just that time, 'till now all seems normal.

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[Phil]

I doubt it was dolphin. A trojan is more likely

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[Squall-Leonhart]

applications don't cause bsods.

Bad drivers, and failing hardware cause bsods.

Latest = / = Most stable

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[EmuFan23]

Originally Posted by Squall-Leonhart

applications don't cause bsods.

Bad drivers, and failing hardware cause bsods.

Latest = / = Most stable

You know, your logic kinda fails, since my hardware is pretty new, my temperature is good, and my drivers are stable. Oh, and there is NO trojan here. I am 100% positive on that.

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[Squall-Leonhart]

New doesn't mean ****, hardware can fail at any time if they are made of low quality parts, or incorrect configuration is applied.

you keep believing that dolphin caused the bsod though, it only makes you look like a noob.

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[EmuFan23]

Originally Posted by Squall-Leonhart

New doesn't mean ****, hardware can fail at any time if they are made of low quality parts, or incorrect configuration is applied.

you keep believing that dolphin caused the bsod though, it only makes you look like a noob.

The BSOD occurred FIRST when i played Dolphin. It never happened when i played with other emulators, or other games like GTA IV. What do you expect me to believe? And it also didn´t happen after. Ever. And i changed NOTHING. Look, i´m not trying to start some kind of agenda against Dolphin, what happened was that i was playing a game in Dolphin, i pressed the stop button, and i got a BSOD, and made a WTF face.

That´s what happened, and it didn´t happen again. So i will just leave it there. I also checked the temperature after it rebooted, nothing wrong there. I did a few checks and some error searches here and there. My stuff is in perfect condition. I checked my drivers, i did a video card stability test. Nothing. It could have been a bad code in the program. Face it, that happens.

And i resent that attitude.

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[DaStinger77]

You can argue with him all you want, but the BSOD was caused by a hardware fault. How and why a piece of hardware caused your PC to crash is for you to read within the BSOD message.

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[Phil]

What OS are you Using by the way??

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[Squall-Leonhart]

Originally Posted by DaStinger77

You can argue with him all you want, but the BSOD was caused by a hardware fault. How and why a piece of hardware caused your PC to crash is for you to read within the BSOD message.

considering emulations usage of memory, its probably incorrectly set or damaged memory.

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[Phil]

They dont use that much memory....unless he's running vista

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[XTra KrazzY]

Originally Posted by Phil

What OS are you Using by the way??

Windows 98? Plenty of BSoDs there.


@OP:
From Wikipedia:
The Blue Screen of Death (also known as a stop error, BSoD, bluescreen, or Blue Screen of Doom) is an error screen displayed by some operating systems, most notably Microsoft Windows, after encountering a critical system error which can cause the system to shut down, to prevent damage.

Bluescreens on NT-based Windows systems are usually caused by poorly-written device drivers or malfunctioning hardware. In the Win9x era, incompatible DLLs or bugs in the kernel of the operating system could also cause bluescreens.

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In any case, you should really check your hardware.

Do some stress tests to find out where the problem is:
1. Memory/RAM: PRIME95 (don't worry it works on vista)
Memtest86+
2. OpenGL: Furmark
3. DirectX: 3dMark
4. CPU: Play some x264 HD movies on media player
5. Sound Card: goto 4

That's about it. Please don't take out your rants here

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[sl1nk3]

Originally Posted by XTra KrazzY

In any case, you should really check your hardware.

Do some stress tests to find out where the problem is:
1. Memory/RAM: PRIME95 (don't worry it works on vista)
Memtest86+
2. OpenGL: Furmark
3. DirectX: 3dMark
4. CPU: Play some x264 HD movies on media player
5. Sound Card: goto 4

My brain is stuck in a loop



btw, i have to insist on the memtest part, it's an important cause of hardware failure, i had one of my two ram sticks which was defect the day it came out of the box... hopefully these things are lifetime guaranteed.

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Well an application can cause a BSOD in cases where it make you ran out of memory. (well... the hardware is also in cause here...)

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[chrrox]

I had dolphin cause a blue screen of death with the nvidia drivers.
it happened when I saved state with open gl selected and then tried to load state with dx plugin. my display driver stopped working and caused a bsod.
I have not had any other program do this.

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[EmuFan23]

I ran memtest. NOTHING. Not one damn error. ZERO. It could simply be a bad code in the emu, it happens. After all, the coding is rather messy. (Sorry, but it IS). They have cleaned up a few chunks here and there, but it is still messy, regardless of how well it works.

There is nothing wrong with my hardware. My drivers are the latest, STABLE (Meaning not the absolute latest, but the most recent stable ones) drivers.

What i know is that it hasn´t happened since. So let´s just leave it and shut the hell up, ok?

Close the thread, please.

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[Squall-Leonhart]

Yeah, close the thread, before he makes himself look like more of an idiot/tool/fool.

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[GiGaHeRz]

Really computers are made by people, and so they are bound to be imperfect.
given the right set of conditions, it's "easy" to get a one-time BSOD, which would be nearly-impossible to reproduce. It just happened, nothing else to it.
If you want stress testing, run pcsx2 with some heavy game (and turn off frame limiting). If your PC still stands after half an hour, your PC is rock-solid.

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[Phil]

To prove it, i got a bluescreen while opening Pcsx2. pretty random.

I also got a bluescreen and a message saying that my overclock had failed. i simply rebooted, and everything runs fine now.

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[EmuFan23]

Originally Posted by Squall-Leonhart

Yeah, close the thread, before he makes himself look like more of an idiot/tool/fool.

Look who´s talking.

Originally Posted by GiGaHeRz

Really computers are made by people, and so they are bound to be imperfect.
given the right set of conditions, it's "easy" to get a one-time BSOD, which would be nearly-impossible to reproduce. If just happened, nothing else to it.
If you want stress testing, run pcsx2 with some heavy game (and turn off frame limiting). If your PC still stands after half an hour, your PC is rock-solid.

I played GTA IV on high, highest resolution for an hour, before the game simply crashed (Which is understandable, since my graphics card is barely above minimum video memory. I can play it perfectly on medium texture quality, though.) The computer itself held on just fine until i shut it off a few hours later. Still, i might just try that.

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