Bluescreen of Death (VISTA :( )

Homer99 · 02-03-2007, 05:48 PM

Ok so I've had Vista installed for a while now. Everything was running fine until I recently installed more RAM. Once I installed another piece of Kingston KVR400/512CR RAM in, to use the dual channel feature ( 2 pieces of Dell brand 256mb pc3200 RAM, 1 old piece 512mb kingston, one new piece 512mb kingston) everything went wrong. The two pieces of RAM are identical so its not to do with that. However, whenever I run vista, after about 10-20 minutes, i get the blue screen of death which restarts my computer. When I load back into Vista, i get the message:
Problem signature:
Problem Event Name: BlueScreen
OS Version: 6.0.5600.2.0.0.256.1
Locale ID: 4105

Additional information about the problem:
BCCode: f4
BCP1: 00000003
BCP2: 8589AD90
BCP3: 8EFB7D28
BCP4: 00000000
OS Version: 6_0_5600
Service Pack: 0_0
Product: 256_1

Files that help describe the problem:
C:\Windows\Minidump\Mini020307-02.dmp
C:\Users\Amir Vista\AppData\Local\Temp\WER-80265-0.sysdata.xml
C:\Users\Amir Vista\AppData\Local\Temp\WER75A8.tmp.version.txt

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This this happens in windows xp for some reason though :S. So this is really confusing me (I have two different partitions, one with vista, on with xp)

My system specs are:
Intel P4 2.8ghz HT Northwood 800mhz FSB o/ced to 3.5ghz
ATi Radeon 9800 XT
Two sticks 256 mb Dell RAM, two sticks 512 mb Kingston ValueRam (1.5gb)
120 gb Hardrive (Western digital 7200RPM, 8mb Cache)
Asus P4P800-e Deluxe
Ultra X-Finity 500Watt PSU dual rails
Aspire X-Cruiser Case
Sound Blaster Live! 5.1 (Dell edition)
Zalman CNPS7000-B Cu LED CPU cooler

Thanks :)

Nemesis · 02-04-2007, 11:35 AM

Try going here: [url=http://www.memtest86.com[/URL]
Download the program and boot to it and let it run for 2 hours or so. See if maybe some of your ram is bad.

dai · 02-04-2007, 02:23 PM

if you boot from the vista disk you will find the memory tester listed at the bottom of the first screen along with the repair option

Homer99 · 02-04-2007, 02:25 PM

Whoops I forgot to tell you I already ran the Windows Vista memory test. Currently, im running memtest86 and its been nearly two hours with No errors reported. Before I started, I read up on PAT and now enabled it.

dai · 02-04-2007, 02:46 PM

turn off the auto reboot so you get a more understandable error message that freezes the computer on the bsod then post it in full

Homer99 · 02-04-2007, 02:57 PM

welll, i tried that already, and, there is no message that comes up. Its just the blue screen with some white random lines across the screen.

dai · 02-04-2007, 03:18 PM

see what it lists in the event viewer

Homer99 · 02-04-2007, 03:21 PM

where is the event viewer in vista?
also, i ran memtest86, absolutely no errors, nothing is wrong
however, i turned off overclocking, and now there are no bluescreens in vista. I had the multiplier 5:4.

dai · 02-04-2007, 03:27 PM

you get to the event viewer through admin tools but it looks like you have already found the cause

Homer99 · 02-04-2007, 03:28 PM

however, do u know why this would be causing issues?

Homer99 · 02-04-2007, 03:28 PM

and only in vista :S

dai · 02-04-2007, 03:35 PM

in both

Homer99 · 02-04-2007, 03:41 PM

no thats the weird thing, it only happened in vista and not xp! thats what confused the heck out of me

dai · 02-05-2007, 07:58 AM

then you probably have a bad driver install in vista
in your inicial post you indicated the problem was in xp not vista

Homer99 · 02-05-2007, 08:03 AM

Quote:

This this happens in windows xp for some reason though :S. So this is really confusing me (I have two different partitions, one with vista, on with xp)

Sorry, I meant it doesnt happen in XP. And I also reinstalled Vista before coming to this post, nothing improved. Turning off O/Cing solved the issue, but i want to know why.

dai · 02-05-2007, 08:20 AM

you may need to up the voltages on the cpu and ram slightly for overclocking
personally i cannot see the point in o/c these days for a marginal improvement unlike years ago when you could achieve a 50% or more increase in speed

Homer99 · 02-05-2007, 03:01 PM

Ya I've been loooking, I am not getting a significant increase with overclocking. However, before I enabled PAT, everything was much slower. Thank you i865PE :D

And, I was just using the Auto adjustment feature on the Asus voltage selector in the bios, which is not recommended.

02-03-2007, 05:48 PM	#1 (permalink)
Homer99 Registered User Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Canada Posts: 294 OS: Vista Ultimate, XP Pro SP2, Ubuntu Feisty Fawn, Server 2003 Standard, OSX 10.5.3 My System	Bluescreen of Death (VISTA :( ) Ok so I've had Vista installed for a while now. Everything was running fine until I recently installed more RAM. Once I installed another piece of Kingston KVR400/512CR RAM in, to use the dual channel feature ( 2 pieces of Dell brand 256mb pc3200 RAM, 1 old piece 512mb kingston, one new piece 512mb kingston) everything went wrong. The two pieces of RAM are identical so its not to do with that. However, whenever I run vista, after about 10-20 minutes, i get the blue screen of death which restarts my computer. When I load back into Vista, i get the message: Problem signature: Problem Event Name: BlueScreen OS Version: 6.0.5600.2.0.0.256.1 Locale ID: 4105 Additional information about the problem: BCCode: f4 BCP1: 00000003 BCP2: 8589AD90 BCP3: 8EFB7D28 BCP4: 00000000 OS Version: 6_0_5600 Service Pack: 0_0 Product: 256_1 Files that help describe the problem: C:\Windows\Minidump\Mini020307-02.dmp C:\Users\Amir Vista\AppData\Local\Temp\WER-80265-0.sysdata.xml C:\Users\Amir Vista\AppData\Local\Temp\WER75A8.tmp.version.txt Read our privacy statement: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?link...3&clcid=0x0409 This this happens in windows xp for some reason though :S. So this is really confusing me (I have two different partitions, one with vista, on with xp) My system specs are: Intel P4 2.8ghz HT Northwood 800mhz FSB o/ced to 3.5ghz ATi Radeon 9800 XT Two sticks 256 mb Dell RAM, two sticks 512 mb Kingston ValueRam (1.5gb) 120 gb Hardrive (Western digital 7200RPM, 8mb Cache) Asus P4P800-e Deluxe Ultra X-Finity 500Watt PSU dual rails Aspire X-Cruiser Case Sound Blaster Live! 5.1 (Dell edition) Zalman CNPS7000-B Cu LED CPU cooler Thanks :) __________________ When you do things right, people won't be sure you've done anything at all.

02-04-2007, 02:23 PM	#3 (permalink)
dai Manager, Hardware Forums Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: west australia Posts: 39,475 OS: vista 32x ultimate retail	if you boot from the vista disk you will find the memory tester listed at the bottom of the first screen along with the repair option __________________

02-04-2007, 02:25 PM	#4 (permalink)
Homer99 Registered User Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Canada Posts: 294 OS: Vista Ultimate, XP Pro SP2, Ubuntu Feisty Fawn, Server 2003 Standard, OSX 10.5.3 My System	Whoops I forgot to tell you I already ran the Windows Vista memory test. Currently, im running memtest86 and its been nearly two hours with No errors reported. Before I started, I read up on PAT and now enabled it. __________________ When you do things right, people won't be sure you've done anything at all.

02-04-2007, 02:46 PM	#5 (permalink)
dai Manager, Hardware Forums Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: west australia Posts: 39,475 OS: vista 32x ultimate retail	turn off the auto reboot so you get a more understandable error message that freezes the computer on the bsod then post it in full __________________

02-04-2007, 02:57 PM	#6 (permalink)
Homer99 Registered User Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Canada Posts: 294 OS: Vista Ultimate, XP Pro SP2, Ubuntu Feisty Fawn, Server 2003 Standard, OSX 10.5.3 My System	welll, i tried that already, and, there is no message that comes up. Its just the blue screen with some white random lines across the screen. __________________ When you do things right, people won't be sure you've done anything at all.

02-04-2007, 11:35 AM	#2 (permalink)
Nemesis Registered User Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Va, USA Posts: 222 OS: Win2000.xp.vista.03server.	Try going here: [url=http://www.memtest86.com[/URL] Download the program and boot to it and let it run for 2 hours or so. See if maybe some of your ram is bad.

02-04-2007, 03:18 PM	#7 (permalink)
dai Manager, Hardware Forums Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: west australia Posts: 39,475 OS: vista 32x ultimate retail	see what it lists in the event viewer __________________

02-04-2007, 03:21 PM	#8 (permalink)
Homer99 Registered User Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Canada Posts: 294 OS: Vista Ultimate, XP Pro SP2, Ubuntu Feisty Fawn, Server 2003 Standard, OSX 10.5.3 My System	where is the event viewer in vista? also, i ran memtest86, absolutely no errors, nothing is wrong however, i turned off overclocking, and now there are no bluescreens in vista. I had the multiplier 5:4. __________________ When you do things right, people won't be sure you've done anything at all.

02-04-2007, 03:27 PM	#9 (permalink)
dai Manager, Hardware Forums Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: west australia Posts: 39,475 OS: vista 32x ultimate retail	you get to the event viewer through admin tools but it looks like you have already found the cause __________________

02-04-2007, 03:28 PM	#10 (permalink)
Homer99 Registered User Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Canada Posts: 294 OS: Vista Ultimate, XP Pro SP2, Ubuntu Feisty Fawn, Server 2003 Standard, OSX 10.5.3 My System	however, do u know why this would be causing issues? __________________ When you do things right, people won't be sure you've done anything at all.

02-04-2007, 03:28 PM	#11 (permalink)
Homer99 Registered User Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Canada Posts: 294 OS: Vista Ultimate, XP Pro SP2, Ubuntu Feisty Fawn, Server 2003 Standard, OSX 10.5.3 My System	and only in vista :S __________________ When you do things right, people won't be sure you've done anything at all.

02-04-2007, 03:35 PM	#12 (permalink)
dai Manager, Hardware Forums Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: west australia Posts: 39,475 OS: vista 32x ultimate retail	in both __________________

02-04-2007, 03:41 PM	#13 (permalink)
Homer99 Registered User Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Canada Posts: 294 OS: Vista Ultimate, XP Pro SP2, Ubuntu Feisty Fawn, Server 2003 Standard, OSX 10.5.3 My System	no thats the weird thing, it only happened in vista and not xp! thats what confused the heck out of me __________________ When you do things right, people won't be sure you've done anything at all.

02-05-2007, 07:58 AM	#14 (permalink)
dai Manager, Hardware Forums Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: west australia Posts: 39,475 OS: vista 32x ultimate retail	then you probably have a bad driver install in vista in your inicial post you indicated the problem was in xp not vista __________________

02-05-2007, 08:20 AM	#16 (permalink)
dai Manager, Hardware Forums Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: west australia Posts: 39,475 OS: vista 32x ultimate retail	you may need to up the voltages on the cpu and ram slightly for overclocking personally i cannot see the point in o/c these days for a marginal improvement unlike years ago when you could achieve a 50% or more increase in speed __________________

02-05-2007, 03:01 PM	#17 (permalink)
Homer99 Registered User Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Canada Posts: 294 OS: Vista Ultimate, XP Pro SP2, Ubuntu Feisty Fawn, Server 2003 Standard, OSX 10.5.3 My System	Ya I've been loooking, I am not getting a significant increase with overclocking. However, before I enabled PAT, everything was much slower. Thank you i865PE :D And, I was just using the Auto adjustment feature on the Asus voltage selector in the bios, which is not recommended. __________________ When you do things right, people won't be sure you've done anything at all.