Hi everyone, Ive been getting some bsods, maybe one a day. They happen when i'm not overclocked and when im overclocked, I've played crysis for hours with no problem at 1920X1200, but other times when im just surfing and listening to music, bam: bsod. In fact, two others came with little/no stress on the system, and one came on shutdown.
from what I can tell, (dump files and sysinfo attached) its corrupted memory, but I pass memtest86+ 9+ hours... so it's not corrupted memory:4-dontkno?
Realtemp reports 36C idle, 49C max load and prime95 passes after 9+ hours
Heres my build:
CM 690 case
CM realpower Pro 550W
E8400@3.6 with xigmatek HDT-S1283
4gb gskill 800 5-5-5-15 (2x2) (had errors on memtest at 1.8v, passes at 1.9v, but still getting bsods)
gigabyte EP43-DS3L
sapphire HD 4870 with fanspeed set to 45%, catalyst 8.7
pioneer blu-ray
segate barracuda 750 gig
running vista home premium x64 sp1
So I would suspect the power supply, except the crashes happen when I'm basically doing nothing, not when I'm stressing it. It's about a week old build... so really anyone have some ideas what else I can test to find what might be wrong, or even which part i should RMA? Thanks in advance
thanks a lot, in the meantime ive run chkdsk (no problems) and flashed the bios to f6 I'll also try testing the ram individually and on another machine.
Take a look in WERCON - the extract that I see in msinfo32 shows >50 errors in 1 minute on August 2 at 4:45 pm. The entries start on July 31, but I am not sure of the reason for this. One possibility is that so many entries were reported that the older ones rolled off.
START | type wercon.exe | right-click on wercon.exe above | run as admin - what do you see?
Oh and i'd assume the reason the entries start on july 31st is that I built the thing on that day.
Would it be worthwile to reformat/install windows? I recall when i installed windows it stopped prematurely, and only restarted when i opened and closed the cd drive - dont know if that could cause something like this.
Fire up driver verifier by going start>run>verifier.exe
1. Create Custom Settings
2. Select individual settings from list
3. Check Special Pool, Pool Tracking, Force IRQL Checking
4. Select drivers from a list
5. Click the provider heading to sort
6. Check everything that doesn't have Microsoft as the provider
7. Finish & reboot
Next time the box crashes, upload the dumps (zip c:\windows\minidumps). Driver verifier adds a bunch of checks to help us identify the culprit.
now it appears that one stick consistently fails memtest and the other consistently passes. Ive taken out the defective one for RMA and no bsods so far - looks like that was probably the problem.
I've attached a recent sysinfo and a minidump intentionally caused by using sleep mode once.
The odd thing is that sleep mode -seems- to work fine. (probably why I didnt identify it earlier) The computer goes to sleep, wakes up, everything seems to be working - but within ~10 mins it bsods.
I've gotten by these past months simply not using sleep mode but I'd like to try actually solving this.
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