Big BSOD problems

pingo · 01-18-2009, 07:39 AM

Hi there. I have big problems with BSOD's on my recently bought and built computer ( see profile for specs...) It worked fine to a certain degree in the start, but after a week or so, it started throwing BSOD's liked a mad dog, with different stop codes...

I lived with this a while until it got to the point where it became unbearable.

I delivered my pc to a repair shop, and they stated that I had one defect RAM chip. Great! I thought, so I bought a new set of 4 Gb Corsair dominator RAM's (2x2Gb) and installed them. I fired up the computer and to my surprise the problem(s) was not resolved. In the course of about 11 hours i got 17 BSOD's, in average more than 1 per hour.

I have a bunch of piled up minidumps from this period, and i have tried to run them in WIN debugger, but the program says i don't have permission to open the files , nor the minidumps or the core memory dump, so that was a dead end as i don't know how to obtain access

I have attached the crash dumps in a zipped folder to this message.

the next I did was to uninstall and remove the wireless network card, an jensen AirLink 7354 card, as some of the BSOD's listed tcpip.sys netio.sys
and athrx.sys as the culprits. I linked the last .sys file to the Atheros AR5005G network adapter (may be the chipset on my network card?).

This did not help a lot. BSOD's continued appearing.

I then decided to run the Windows memory test, and I saw in yellow writing the second the test started that " there has been discovered hardware issues and that you should contact the pc manufacturer etc..."
hmm.. i thought: "my RAM is all new! this cant be right!"

I then changed the RAM's over to the other pair of ports on my motherboard, an reran the test. This time no hardware problems was detected. The test finished and notified me that no memory errors was detected.

The pc has now run fairly stable for 8 hours, with only one BSOD..

I have attached this last BSOD in a zipped folder..

So what could this mean? Are there faulty and corrupted RAM ports on the motherboard?? is it possible that the repair shop didn't think of the ports and blamed the RAM chip??

Thanks in advance for any you can offer.. I really need some help with this..

Notify me if you need some more info, or if there's any tests i could run

I apologize if this is the wrong place to post this issue. I really don't know what could be the cause, i only have a slight feeling it could be RAM related, be it ports or the chips...