SOLVED Machine Check Exception Error

[RollingThunder]

I've been dealing with this message off and on for some time. System locks up needing a hard restart. It does not leave a typical BSOD, just a fuzzy blue screen and locked up tighter than a buss's a$$. I had never dealt with this error message previously or even heard of it.

Time to do something about it and I got lucky:

There were a few instances hinting at video problems so I updated nVidia video card drivers (883 MB) from original GTX 750ti (2015) and voila! Solved. I'm patting myself on the back now ...................

 

[Mr.Scott]

Mmmmmm......................keep an eye on it. Not typically a driver problem.

 

[RollingThunder]

Mmmmmm......................keep an eye on it. Not typically a driver problem.

Scotty,

I certainly will watch this. Are you implying that it's usually more of a hardware issue? When I assembled this machine there were three bend pins in the upper left edge / corner of the board. I continued to put it all together anyway with no known issues. This Machine Check Exception started to appear after one of the larger Win 10 updates about 18 months ago.

 

[Mr.Scott]

Yes. Machine Check Exception is usually hardware related. Only time I ever get that is when I'm overstressing something. Usually CPU.

BTW, good to see you Dave.

 

[RollingThunder]

Yes. Machine Check Exception is usually hardware related. Only time I ever get that is when I'm overstressing something. Usually CPU.

BTW, good to see you Dave.

Thank you Scotty........

Crap...............like an overclock or memory stix?
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I ask because my W10 overclock is very mild but my RAM stix pass AIDA64 but sometimes fails Memtest64.

 

[EarthDog]

Save your current profile to the BIOS (or USB stick), and revert to stock if it happens again. That would tell you if it's something in the overclock.

 

[RollingThunder]

Update & FYI:

It's been about four months since updating my nVidia video card driver. The driver was the first one for this card and was never updated (8 years old).

I realize Scotty said not usually a software problem and in this case it's been trouble free since updating to the latest driver (~850MB). Perhaps the newest driver fixed a hardware issue with this card, I don't know that but the newest driver seems to have corrected the problem.

 

[Mr.Scott]

I'm not always right.

Easy cheap fix. Nice.

 

[RollingThunder]

Easy cheap fix. Nice.

I needed that kind of fix!