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Hey I've been having major issues with minecraft since I've gotten my new computer. Sometimes when I try to start minecraft I hit the login button and minecraft starts and then instantly crashs to the desktop. I sometimes have this happen a few times and then at some point when I try to start minecraft it ends up blue screening my computer with BSOD Error Codes 0x50 and 0x1a. Others times minecraft launches fine and then when I try to join a server it crashes to the desktop. Other times I can get into the server just fine without any crashes but sadly enough I still sometimes crash while playing on the server. This doesn't happen all the time but these crashes are scaring me while I play on certain servers because they have PvP-Log Plugins which kill me if I was hit in PvP and then log out within 20 seconds of being hit. I think that Java could be to blame for these crashes because other Java using programs sometimes crash out to the desktop but they dont Blue Screen my computer like Minecraft does.

I have 25 hs_err_pid**** that I have uploaded to mediafire that can be looked at to try and figure out why whats happening is happening. Each hs_err_pid**** is going to have a date after it that is shown something like this ---> 1,25,2013. This would stand for the date of when the error report was made so the example I listed would of been made on January 25 of 2013. The Links to the error reports will be listed in the spoiler below.

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What's your Operating System? I'll assume Windows for now.

Update java to 7.13. If you have a 64 bit OS, use the 64 bit version.
Force update MC.
Run a virus scan. Avast! is free.
See if other programs are running and taking a lot of Memory or CPU cycles. This can be done by opening the task manager. Press ctrl+alt+del and select "start task manager". Under processes, make sure you select "show processes from all users." You can then sort by CPU and Memory.

Quote from Hidinginthelight

Well now I'll start by saying I didn't look at all the reports, only checked 5 or 6.

The first one I opened was your graphics driver crashing java.
The rest were all java crashing on it's own.

Use windows remove program feature to remove any and all java installs that you have. Then reinstall the latest version. (Link in my signature). Next head to the Nvidia site (http://www.nvidia.com) and make sure you have the latest drivers for your graphics card.

If you still have problems, you may want to test your systems memory using memtest86 (http://www.memtest.org)

I dont think faulty RAM would be the problem because wouldn't I experience far more problems than what I'm already getting? Also a Few times while I was playing minecraft I had a message appear saying that the graphics card driver failed and then my game closed out. When I get home tonight I'll try uninstalling and then reinstalling java and see if that helps and I'll also check to make sure my Graphics Card Driver is up to date. Also I'll have my system specs posted just below.



System Specs

OS: 64 bit windows 7 home premium
RAM: 16Gb (Two 8Gb Sticks)
GPU: NVIDIA Geforce GTX 660 With 2Gb of Memory
CPU: i5 3570K Quad Core Processor


If any other information is needed from my end then don't mind asking because I want to get this problem fixed as soon as possible.

Thanks for reading,
-Killer7500

I remember that...

The dump I randomly looked at shows the crash here (the dump uses "=>" to mark the crashing thread)

=>0x0000000008ef6000 JavaThread "C2 CompilerThread0" daemon [_thread_in_native, id=4736, stack(0x000000000a6e0000,0x000000000a7e0000)]

This is the JVM hotspot compiler dying. That's just not a normal failure. This would only happen due to a JVM bug (which could happen) or memory corruption in the JVM (a JVM software bug or a system hardware issue).

I'm pretty sure hiding's problem was also in the compiler thread.

If there was a hot spot compiler bug in the most recent JVM, I would expect there to be flurry of people posting, because many people are using that JVM version, and they're all running the same Java program which would presumably trigger the same flaw on their systems.

another random dump

=>0x0000000002197000 (exited) GCTaskThread [stack: 0x0000000005e80000,0x0000000005f80000] [id=4940]

That's the garbage collector.. so either there's a bug there too, or it's memory corruption. (still could be hardware or software)

Is your new computer overclocking?

=>0x0000000008e62000 VMThread [stack: 0x0000000009e70000,0x0000000009f70000] [id=5468]

another different piece of code crashing... My money's on memory corruption... hardware.

Ok about to re-download Java and I was just wondering if it makes a difference if I download Java 64 bit over Java 32 bit.

Ok just want to quickly say that the problem seems to have been one of the two 8gb sticks of RAM I had in my computer. How we figured this out was that we were going to do a test on the cmputer by taking out one of the two RAM sticks to see if I would get the blue screens. So my dad removed one of the two sticks one night and the next morning when I tried to use the computer I couldn't even get it to get past the startup. So we switched RAM chips and after doing zo the computer worked great and I haven't gotten one bluescreen since and all the games I played that crashed haven't crashed once since removing the one stick of RAM. Now the only thing to figure out is why the minecraft java processess won't close but I can do that later. For now I'm just happy that I can actually use my computer and not run into endless problems.

Thanks to everyone who helped and see ya later.

-Killer7500