Hello everyone! I have been having lots of STOP 0x0000007F (0x0000000D, 0x0, 0x0, 0x0) blue screens while running certain games and sometimes while running an anti-virus scan with avast! 4.8 Home Edition (which I manually update daily.) Usually, even though I had it set up to create a minidump in the default location and not automatically restart, the dump files would never finish being created (according to the blue screen) no matter how long I left it at that state. Fearing my RAID drivers could be the issue, I downloaded the latest nvidia nForce4 chipset drivers for my motherboard straight from nvidia and updated them all and rebooted. Then I played one of the games that guaranteed a BSOD within minutes, and sure enough it did. To my surprise, the dump file was successfully created in an instant. I had a peek into it with the Windows Debugging tools and noticed that amdk8.sys was the possible cause, so I looked around online to find out about it. One remedy was to rename the amdk8.sys located in C:\Windows\System32\drivers to amdk8.old.sys and to disable the AMD Cool'n'Quiet control in the motherboard BIOS. I did so and once again tried Oblivion, the BSOD inducer. For a moment I thought it had worked, until it bluescreened about 3 minutes later than usual, producing a BugCheck 1000008E, {c000001d, 86cc25a5, 803ecc1c, 0} (according to the Windows Debugging tool.)
I'm sure the files obtained via the methods of this post provide all the information about my computer specs but I'll list them here anyway.
CPU: AMD Athlon 64 X2 6400+ Windsor 3.2GHz Dual-Core
Mobo: Gigabyte GA-M55SLI-S4
Mem: OCZ 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800
Video: ATI Radeon HD 4870 512MB
HDD: 2 Western Digital Raptors 80GB each in RAID0, 1 Western Digital 160GB 7200rpm
Sound: Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi XtremeGamer Fatal1ty Pro
OS: Windows Vista Business 32-bit SP2
Video drivers BEFORE the amdk8.sys file change were Catalyst 9.5. Video drivers AFTER the amdk8.sys file change are Catalyst 9.7, which is most recent available.
Sound drivers are version 2.18.004, which are not most recent, but most stable and functional on my system. Onboard sound is disabled via BIOS.
I have ran Memtest v2.11 for approximately 10-11 hours with 0 errors and plan on downloading a utility from Western Digital to Chkdsk my hard drives.
List of games currently installed that DO produce a BSOD:
The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion
Guild Wars
Tomb Raider: Underworld
List of games currently installed that DO NOT produce a BSOD:
Team Fortress 2
Left 4 Dead
I have not tested Left 4 Dead or Tomb Raider since the amdk8.sys file change, but have tested the others and they still remain in their respective lists above. I have also not tried another anti-virus scan since the amdk8.sys file change so I do not know if that will produce a BSOD. All BSODs before the amdk8.sys change were the STOP 0x07F and all BSODs after the amdk8.sys change were the 8E.
It would be great if I could find a fix to my problem other than a reformat, cause I also tried that to no avail. If you need anymore information, please ask and I'll provide to the best of my ability.
I'm sure the files obtained via the methods of this post provide all the information about my computer specs but I'll list them here anyway.
CPU: AMD Athlon 64 X2 6400+ Windsor 3.2GHz Dual-Core
Mobo: Gigabyte GA-M55SLI-S4
Mem: OCZ 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800
Video: ATI Radeon HD 4870 512MB
HDD: 2 Western Digital Raptors 80GB each in RAID0, 1 Western Digital 160GB 7200rpm
Sound: Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi XtremeGamer Fatal1ty Pro
OS: Windows Vista Business 32-bit SP2
Video drivers BEFORE the amdk8.sys file change were Catalyst 9.5. Video drivers AFTER the amdk8.sys file change are Catalyst 9.7, which is most recent available.
Sound drivers are version 2.18.004, which are not most recent, but most stable and functional on my system. Onboard sound is disabled via BIOS.
I have ran Memtest v2.11 for approximately 10-11 hours with 0 errors and plan on downloading a utility from Western Digital to Chkdsk my hard drives.
List of games currently installed that DO produce a BSOD:
The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion
Guild Wars
Tomb Raider: Underworld
List of games currently installed that DO NOT produce a BSOD:
Team Fortress 2
Left 4 Dead
I have not tested Left 4 Dead or Tomb Raider since the amdk8.sys file change, but have tested the others and they still remain in their respective lists above. I have also not tried another anti-virus scan since the amdk8.sys file change so I do not know if that will produce a BSOD. All BSODs before the amdk8.sys change were the STOP 0x07F and all BSODs after the amdk8.sys change were the 8E.
It would be great if I could find a fix to my problem other than a reformat, cause I also tried that to no avail. If you need anymore information, please ask and I'll provide to the best of my ability.