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What does this BSOD mean?



So far i've bluescreened a few times on Total War Rome II, Napoleon Total War, and once when I was just browsing the internet.

MOBO: M5a97 le r2.0
CPU: AMD FX 8350
GPU: GTX 680
PSU: Ultra HS750 Modular 750 Watt Power Supply
RAM: 8GB DDR3 1333 PNY
HDD 1: 500GB SATA III 6.0Gb/s 7200RPM Hard Drive
HDD 2: WD Green 3 TB Desktop Hard Drive
 


any ideas?
 


(you didn't specify what OS so if you're using windows 7 try this first) Bring up the start menu, click on Computer, right click whichever drive windows is installed on, go to properties, click the tools tab, and under "Error-checking" click "Check now..."

Have you been playing these games and using the PC successfully for a long period of time and the blue screens only recently started happening? Another thing you can do is check application & system logs in event viewer, look for any events occurring around the exact time of day that a blue screen occurred
 


Well I used to have 2 incompatible pairs of RAM so when I played games the BSODS were constant but now that I have 1 pair of compatible RAM It's been happening every now and then. For example I've played NTW for about 6 hours this week and it just BSOD'd for the first time with the new RAM, which made me make this thread.
 


Alright I let chkdsk run over night and it booted itself right back up when it was done. If this was the problem, should it be fixed now?
 
try playing total war and see if you get any blue screens
 


This seems to have worked, and it was the final problem in a years worth of problems. Thank you so much.
 


NEVERMIND. I was wrong. It worked for a week and right after I tell you it worked, guess what happens? BSOD. Any other suggestions man?
I got this message after starting up again:
Problem signature:
Problem Event Name: BlueScreen
OS Version: 6.1.7601.2.1.0.768.3
Locale ID: 1033

Additional information about the problem:
BCCode: 1000007e
BCP1: FFFFFFFFC0000005
BCP2: FFFFF8000310A622
BCP3: FFFFF880033E06D8
BCP4: FFFFF880033DFF30
OS Version: 6_1_7601
Service Pack: 1_0
Product: 768_1

Files that help describe the problem:
C:\Windows\Minidump\082314-26520-01.dmp
C:\Users\Derek\AppData\Local\Temp\WER-68344-0.sysdata.xml

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