[johjoh]

Happens quite randomly, although it does happen more frequently especially when I'm playing Battlefield 3. Also, it is notable that when I play Battlefield 3, somethings I get 'attacked' by graphical artifacts (?), the whole screen is just a mess of lines etc. This also affects out of the game. I checked the temperature of the GPU when it was still happening and it was only around 53C. It continued no matter what I did, besides restarting, which made it completely clear up and back to normal. If I access the PC from another PC (via LogMeIn) it seems to be normal. Also, I've previously had trouble overclocking and changing the voltage of different CPUs and GPUs. I wonder if it's the PSU that is the cause? - not powerful enough/faulty?

It is notable that, in the EventViewer, there are many events of hard drive 'bad blocks'.

I have previously run Driver Verifier in which it BSOD'd for me, in which I further looked into it, and turned out it was a daemon tools driver that was the cause. I have uninstalled Daemon tools and SPTD, and the Driver Verifier ran without BSOD. Although I still get this 0x4E BSOD at random times.

I have attempted a Hitachi DFT, but it did not run properly when booted, possibly due to my operating system being 64bit (which I noticed it said it only worked on 32bit systems on the Hitachi site) - I attempted to boot it from another PC and it worked fine.

I have attempted a Seatools long test on my system drive, but throughout - somewhere from 50% to 99% - it froze with a continuous beep from the PC tower. There seemed to be unknown little green text or something on the top edge of the screen - it seemed that it was definitely not meant to be there as I couldnt interpret anything from it.

I have also attached a minidump of my most recent 0x4E bsod.

· OS -

Windows 7 x64 SP1​

· What was original installed OS on system?

None​

· Is the OS an OEM version (came pre-installed on system) or full retail version (YOU purchased it from retailer)?

Full retail version​

· Age of system (hardware)?

Hard drives - 4-5 years
CPU - Few months
GPU - 1-2 years
Motherboard - 1-3 years
PSU - 1-2 years
RAM - 1-2 years​

· Age of OS installation - have you re-installed the OS?

6 months to 1 year old
​

· CPU

AMD 1090T Running stock + ASUS Silent Square EVO
​

· Video Card

GIGABYTE HD4770 1GB
​

· MotherBoard

GIGABYTE MA78G-DS3H
​

· Power Supply - brand & wattage

Antec 520W NeoEco​

 

[johjoh]

I have deliberately disabled the AMD High Definition Device because it was interfering with my Realtek audio driver.

I didn't realize that it was a Verifier Enabled Memory Dump; I have done as you said.

I will uninstall AMD Overdrive and I will do some hard drive testing with only my system drive connected. I'll get back to you about it.

Thanks!

EDIT: It seems that AMD Overdrive is integrated into the 'AMD VISION Engine Control Center' - I have disabled it anyway via the program (not knowing why it was enabled in the first place!) - is disabling it enough? Or should I attempt to uninstall the AMD VISION Engine Control Center as a whole?

 

[johjoh]

I'm assuming you're talking about me disabling the AMD High Definition Device - I can recall having a BSOD AFTER disabling it though. I'm waiting for another BSOD though to confirm that it isn't fixed entirely (because I believe that some fault is still lurking around in there) - meanwhile doing hard drive testing.

 

[johjoh]

HD Diagnostics results
[Being updated as progressed]

HDTUNE

HDTune Error Test - 0.0% Damaged Blocks

HDTune Benchmark -

HDTune Health -

WD Data Lifeguard Diagnostic for DOS (CD) WD Support / Downloads / SATA & SAS / WD Caviar Blue / SE / SE16 (SATA II)

 

[johjoh]

WD Data Lifeguard Diagnostic for DOS (CD)

Quick test - No errors
Extended test - No errors

Seatools

As said before - froze throughout test

Hitachi DFT

Could not boot

What do you recommend to do now? :ermm:

 

[johjoh]

Just thought I should let you know:
My computer just automatically rebooted right now, whilst I was playing Battlefield 3, without any warning except for a freeze. There was no BSOD, minidump or memory dump.
Event viewer has 2 Error events (Event ID 1101 and 6008) and 1 Critical event (Event ID 41) at the time of the crash.

In my Startup and Recovery window from System Properties, I have 'Write an event to the system log' checked and 'Automatically restart' unchecked along with below it set to Write a Kernel memory dump (pointed to %systemroot%\MEMORY.DMP).

 

[johjoh]

I don't have a spare hard drive to use. :frown:

What do you think of the PSU possibly being the cause?
-Using eXtreme Power Supply Calculator Lite (eXtreme Power Supply Calculator) I've calculated my average wattage and it is well below 520W (~min. 323W)
- I've never been able to overclock either my CPU or GPU with or without changing stock voltages - it would always crash no matter what.
-PSU still under warranty
-The idle rail voltages of this PSU have been tested via a multimeter and they seem accurate

For the sake of it, I'm going to use the PSU from a friend and see what results it gives me.

 

[johjoh]

[Haven't changed PSU yet]

I got a BSOD and a mini dump from playing Battlefield 3. It's a different one this time.

Check out the attached mini dump!

 

[johjoh]

- I'm not overclocking at all
- Not using a SSD

I'll go ahead over to the PSU support and see where that leads me

Thank you