Before I dis-assemble my PC....

shinester184

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I bought this rig back in Feb of this year, and since buying it I have had nothing but BSODs on start-ups (taking around 7 attempts to get past the Vista loading screen perhaps), my overclock (CPU only) would be perfectly stable, until I get a BSOD, which isn't normally the sign of an unstable OC is it? Volts are above stock, so I'm not undervolting. It FAILS memtest86+, with the test only running for a few seconds before the PC reboots. However I have tested my RAM at the same timings and volts (which are correct) in a friends PC. It is 100% stable and passed memtest86+ three times with no problems.

But for some very strange reason when I get into Windows and start internet browsing/ video encoding/ light gaming its absolutely fine!

This is the BSOD I only EVER get.

shinester184


A memory dump. But it's not the memory!?

So me and my mate have come to a conclusion that I have a faulty motherboard, so I will soon be dis-assembling my PC to RMA the motherboard.

Can any one offer any final words before I take the plunge?

All help would be so good before this drives me to insanity, having to take nearly 15 minutes just to get onto my computer!!!!

Thanks.
 
Firstly cant see your pic, broken link or somat?
2ndly it does sound like an unstable OC to me, if its throwing up memory errors in your system but not his, that points towards unstable settings in bios. Have you got the RAM running at the correct freq? remembering that if you havent adjusted multiplier when you OCd your FSB your RAM will of OCd as well as your CPU. Have you set the DRAM voltage to that which its rated? often mobos default around 0.3V lower for some reason. If both of these are ok then try raising your NB voltage a notch or 2
 
Re did the link for the picture.

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Does it still have any issues when everything is at stock?
 
Happy said:
Re did the link for the picture.

Does it still have any issues when everything is at stock?
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Sorry should have mentioned that the BSODs occur even when everything is at stock. That is why we are pointing towards Mobo. Sorry, that was one of my most major points; don't know why I didn't write it.

Also RAM is running at required specs of freq and V.
 
apparantly there is a hotfix for the netio.sys bsod

this is a quote of someone elses explanation of the cause, just fyi

One of the threads running in
NETIO.SYS tried to touch a region of memory it did not have access to - in
this case, address 00000000; so something was passed a NULL pointer. In
kernel mode this is a fatal error and processing cannot continue reliably,
so the machine halts before any damage is done to your data (ie "Blue
screen"). As a rule of thumb, NULL pointers are usually programming bugs
somewhere or other (although maybe not in NETIO.SYS itself - it might just
be the victim of a problem elsewhere in the stack).

hotfix link
 
shinester184 said:
I bought this rig back in Feb of this year, and since buying it I have had nothing but BSODs on start-ups (taking around 7 attempts to get past the Vista loading screen perhaps), my overclock (CPU only) would be perfectly stable, until I get a BSOD, which isn't normally the sign of an unstable OC is it?
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A BSOD is most certainly the sign of an unstable overclock.

If it processes something incorrectly then its going to crash isn't it?

Put it back to stock, flash the latest BIOS, check temps, and report back.
 
OK, I have flashed to the latest BIOS and set all settings to stock (except RAM freq/volts/latency). It booted into Windows first time, but that may be a coincedence.

Temps are ok - been pretty hot in here today, idling @ around 35.

I'll go and try memtest86+ now.
 
Ok, bad news.

I tried installing bot the 64 bit (which I am running) and 32 bit hotfixes but when the installer begins, it just comes up with the message 'This is update does not apply to your system'

:S
 
try each stick separately you may find an error on a stick
if nothing try the same test in another slot you may have a faulty slot or combination of slots that are unstable

definitely reset the cmos on the board, bios reset does not always seem to do quite the same job
 
Ok, I tried both sticks in RAM slot Dimm A1, and it failed to post three times.

I then tried individual sticks in different slots and memtest86+ ran for 5 mins wit no problems for each indivdual combo. However I did not test it for longer than 5 minutes and it still BSODs with every combintaion even when running one stick at a time.

So I have come to the conclusion of faulty ram slots on my motherboard.

Thanks guys.
 
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