Been having an annoying BSOD 50 for several months when running a routine scan with avg, and a search in Regedit often pulled the same error. The machine had to be looked at in depth the other day for a UDB problem, so the BSOD was also investigated. It took a while to find the problem, but in the end, it turned out to be a corrupt record in the registry that was causing it, and it was 100% repeatable.

The specifics were that it was eventually tracked down to being a corrupt (unreadable) record in current user, microsoft/explorer/MRU. It’s slightly worrying that a corrupt record in a registry file can pull a stop crash in Xp after this length of time, at this stage, having spent hours looking for it, I am just glad it’s been tracked down, I had to do sequential step back through the registry doing finds, as none of the registry cleaners I tried, and I tried a lot, were finding this problem!! The real lesson for me is that the apparent link was meaningless, in that the suggested area of error had no real relation to the real problem.

I tried different OS (Win 7, Win XP SP3). BSoD happens when playing games. On Win 7, it simply crashes on desktop, without giving any blue screen (but it still crashes regularily every 5-10 min in game). On Win XP SP3, I play usually more than 10 min (sometimes even 1 hour), but it stll crashes (BSoD). In the last month I formated comp 4-5 times, and I’m a little bit annoying with doing these things. I found on some forums that there is a remedy for this BSoD, but only on Win XP SP2 (there are 2 critical updates for, what they call, “Squeal of Death”). Now, I cann’t beleive that in SP3 these updates weren’t included, but I remained without any other solution. The last thing to do, before I take my PC in assistence, would be to install Win XP SP2 and try to install these updates.

By the way, I tried various benchmarks for RAM and graphic card (MemTest, SuperPi, FurMark), and no errors found. My graphic card is running without problems in benchmark for hours (not going over 71 degrees on max). And no component is overclocked. And this is a strange thing, because in game it crashes, giving me this driver problem (ati3duag.dll) with a specific sound that repeats in background (thats why they call it Squeal of Death)

Even I tried latest drivers downloaded directly from Sapphire (and not ATI), but there is allways the same problem. On next format I’ll try not to install Avira antivirus or any other antivirus, to see if this is making some conflicts (even this is said to be a possible problem)

sounds like a problem with your video card.

If your able to boot into Windows you can try these:
Run a virus and spyware scan.
Make sure your drivers for your card are up to date.
Do a windows update, there could be a fix for it if its a Windows problems.

If your unable to boot into normal mode, try safe mode.
Info on safe mode can be found here.
http://bsods.com/downloads-and-tools/safe-mode/

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ati3duag.dll error

Can somebody explain what could be the problem, because I haven’t found a solution on web (and there are a lot of persons whit the same problem)