Originally Posted by jephree

That is a rather unique dump.

When you run Steam do you close all other applications?

We can trace every line of your stack but I would wait till you get your hardware greased just so that we don't waste too much time.

Just a brief scan of that last stack which the debugger recommended raises questions as to multiple applications and your network connection.

Yeah that was the only thing i had open...well that and my NOD32 AV that's always running.

There was a large block near the top of that stack referencing your Graphics:

bf9c3000 bf9d4580 dxg dxg.sys Wed Aug 04 02:00:51 2004 (41107B93)
bf9d5000 bfa1a000 ati2dvag ati2dvag.dll Tue Aug 21 22:07:59 2007 (46CB9A7F)
bfa1a000 bfa88000 ati2cqag ati2cqag.dll Tue Aug 21 21:11:37 2007 (46CB8D49)
bfa88000 bfad9000 atikvmag atikvmag.dll Tue Aug 21 21:19:38 2007 (46CB8F2A)
bfad9000 bfb07000 atiok3x2 atiok3x2.dll Tue Aug 21 21:15:36 2007 (46CB8E38)
bfb07000 bfdf9bc0 ati3duag ati3duag.dll Tue Aug 21 21:47:21 2007 (46CB95A9)
bfdfa000 bff7d680 _ ? Tue Aug 21 21:35:39 2007 (46CB92EB)
bffa0000 bffe5c00 __bffa0000 ? Wed Aug 04 0356 2004 (411096C8)

Do you have any errors or issues under start > Run... > dxdiag > Display

Originally Posted by jephree

There was a large block near the top of that stack referencing your Graphics:



Do you have any errors or issues under start > Run... > dxdiag > Display

Nope, says "No Problems Found".

(check PM)

Originally Posted by jephree

Aha nice

Okay i went to the computer store today...and was going to get some thermal paste, but he didnt have any AS5! But he had some other stuff that was 21% silver...so i didnt get it. I wasnt sure if i should....ill get it some other time.

Did you get your cake yet?

Originally Posted by jephree

Did you get your cake yet?

No im actually stuck. Ill PM you...if you've beat it...im on the last level.

omg

i was in the middle of a TF2 game as a pyro...and it gave me a blue screen. So when it turns back on, i go to open up Steam quickly, and it gave me another

It only saved one crash dump...so here it is.

I havent gotten any thermal paste.....do you think it can REALLY fix it?

ks.sys is all over it. This is a Windows driver for audio and video.

Does your motherboard have on-board VGA? If so have you disabled it?

Also I have never known anyone to run a CPU without thermal paste.

This is not good at all. It's like running a car without oil.

Originally Posted by jephree

ks.sys is all over it. This is a Windows driver for audio and video.

Does your motherboard have on-board VGA? If so have you disabled it?

Nope, doesnt have onboard video. But i am using onboard sound. I thought i had installed the sound drivers that came with the motherboard...hm..ill check again.

Originally Posted by jephree

Also I have never known anyone to run a CPU without thermal paste.

This is not good at all. It's like running a car without oil.

Ah...i guess ill see what i can do...

(ill reply in the morning, if there is anything to reply to)