Help regarding Predator G3-605

SaraLinnea

Hi there everyone, this is my first post here, so please bare with me. I have an "old" Predator G3-605, who'm i got back in 2013-2014.

It has recently started to behave strangely, with BSODs popping up frequently, and the semi well know "watchdog" thing being the error code. Finally my computer just went and died, completely. At least temporarily. It did not respond to anything, even though it was plugged in and had power and all of that. So i unplugged all cables, let it sit undisturbed for an hour or two, crossed my fingers and plugged it in and it started up again.

That's when i decided to do fresh install of Windows 10 Home. I picked the option where it lets you keep your personal files, and let it run it's course. It took some hours, but finally it was done, and i started upon the task of installing drivers and essential programs.

To my surprise, i had a BSOD again, with the same "watchdog" error code, the computer rebooted, and not knowing what to do (Google has not been very helpful at all) i continuted in getting my computer in somewhat working order.

Now to the strange part. In the middle of all this, i can't really remember what i was doing, the screen went entirely green. Just all of it, every pixel, green like the lushest and most well trimmed tennis court you have ever seen. And it stayed that way. It did not respond to commands from either keyboard nor mouse, so after several minutes of this strange green screen (might have been up to 30 minutes), i did a hard reset.

This is where i am at now. I have gotten yet another BSOD after this, same message, and i am starting to feel quite helpless here. I have updated all that i can from Windows Update, I have also updated the necessary drivers from Nvidia (for the GPU) and Intel, but the drivers i manage to find on Acers website when searching using the code on my computer are at least 5 years old, and that does not feel right, so i have not installed any of those yet.

I have a sneaking suspicion that something is amiss with my GPU, since i first enquntered the BSOD while gaming, and that strange green screen sort of points my suspiciouns in that direction as well.

I hope that you excuse my somewhat shoddy grammar, as English is not my first language. I appreciate all the help i can get! Thank you very much!

(I will attack the .txt from my DxDiag in the post, if that is of any help)

AnhEZ28

You can try to check the temperature with HWMonitor. If the temps are some where about 90C, you should get the PC cleaned and replaced the thermal paste.

GotBanned

Ho there!

Sorry to say that it could be many things. Thermal paste between the heatsink and CPU (or even GPU) losing its thermal conductivity, tons of dust cooking things up (CPU or GPU), power supply going bad, GPU or CPU fan(s) being faulty etc. Are the fans running at full tilt even when sitting at desktop?

Like mentioned above, try to monitor temps. If the thermal paste hasn't been changed since you got the system, cleaning the old paste and replacing it with something like Arctic MX-4 or MX5 will certainly not be a bad thing.

Could you list the components you have? At least CPU and GPU. Thanks!

If your CPU has an internal GPU on it and the motherboard has HDMI or DisplayPort for a monitor, you could try removing the graphics card and see whether things work then.

billsey

Try to take a picture of the next blue screen, there is often more info there than just the watchdog timer. Watchdog timer errors are often caused by a driver that takes control of the bus, then doesn't release it quickly enough. What are you running for an antivirus?