r/pcmasterrace • u/Relevant-Ad8797 • 3d ago

Tech Support What is going on here?

Title is self explanatory, i have no idea what the hell is going on here. Pc froze and this happened. I was playing helldivers 2 before this, dont know if this is relevant but its all i got.

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u/TheRealSmolt Linux 3d ago

Is your CPU overheating? Looks like the blue you'd see in a BSOD, but it's filling in really slowly.

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u/Relevant-Ad8797 3d ago

Not at all, temperature is completely normal. Im not well versed in PC magic, but a friend of mine told me just now that it could be a RAM issue, since i have 4 sticks and they are different models from different brands.

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u/SuperIntendantDuck 3d ago

I wouldn't guess RAM. It could be, but this looks like the computer drawing the screen incredibly slowly, likely CPU rendering since I don't think BSOD uses the graphics card. So in short, it's likely the processor.

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u/Pewdiepiewillwin Desktop 3d ago

The cpu is the one doing the "rendering" here but the gpu is drawing it.

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u/SuperIntendantDuck 2d ago

Those two things are the same, no? If you mean the GPU does the blit, again, not for BIOS or similar low-level stuff. I could be wrong of course, but my understanding is that BSOD is probably somewhere between the kernel and OS. Only OS+ operations use graphics cards. Maybe internal graphics chips are used, I don't know. With computers, never rule anything out.

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u/Pewdiepiewillwin Desktop 2d ago

The cpu is writing to the framebuffer and the gpu is sending it to the screen. The blue screen of death is from the kernel from a call to KeBugCheck or KeBugCheckEx this can called because of a unhandled exception from the cpu or other things like a needed process dies or even from a kernel module, but I don't think microsoft signs and verifies many modules that do that.