RMA'd my GPU stopped some BSODs but others still persist...completely unstable...

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OK so I rma'd my 5850 because there were driver issues and it seemed that the card was causing no end of grief to my system. OCUK agreed on this. Upon removing my card and replacing it the particular bsods disappeared. Anyway, further on I booted up my PC today after having NO issues yesterday with several restarts etc. With my old GPU in place 8800 GT (no driver issues) and now I am greeting with bad_pool_header and several other Pool bsods. I've reinstalled the OS again hoping it would fix the issue but the problem persists.
I have ran memtest86 on each module separately (10) and no errors have occurred, I am completely out of ideas and OCUK support seem to have no clue of why it is doing this.
My system specs:

  • Nvidia 8800GT 512MB
  • AMD Phenom II X4 Quad Core 955 Black Edition 3.20GHz (Socket AM3) - Retail
  • Corsair XMS3 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (
  • Gigabyte GA-MA790GPT-UD3H AMD 790GX (Socket AM3) PCI-Express DDR3 Motherboard
 
Personally I really hate stuff like this. I would work everything out logically, testing your different ram modules and temps.

How long did you run the memtests for?
 
Admiral Huddy said:
Have you tested your PSU?
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Yeh it's defo not a hard drive issue or a PSU issue, I have actually put the PSU back into an older system with the hard drive and it's been running stable for around 6 hours now.
Just incase the psu wasn't to standard I even put it into a friends machine of similar specs. all fine, makes me think now it's either the mobo or RAM. I've sent the RAM off as an RMA too now, so using an older system if it still persists I will call it as the Mobo.
 
Good luck with that mate, nothig worse than fault finding through the old 'process of elimination' method :(
 
He says he reinstalled his os. I think hes going to have to get a 2nd hd to install an os there. One stick of ram at a time. More specific stress testing to push individual areas to get more data. Use his old PSU, even if its naff and he has to avoid a 3d card test on it etc to keep the 12V down.
 
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Well I tested out my PSU today at a friends house (my main psu) 600Watt OCZX and on his 5850 we left it running stress tests all day, definately not the PSU.
Same can be said for the Hard Drive, I have currently got an old 250GB I was using as my primary, we loaded up the test system:
  1. Using my old PSU
  2. Used onboard VGA
  3. Installed 4gb RAM (ddr3) - same type as my RMA'd
  4. Different mobo (asus not sure of the model its my mates)
  5. Stress tested... results fine (same OS win 7 64bit)
  6. Installed my 8800 GT (to up the load on the PSU), ran stresses. Fine,
  7. reinstalled OS used same hard drive, installed his 5850 (XFI, mine is a powercolour though shouldn't matter as same ish specs?) , still not a crash in site.

I think I can safely conclude that it's definately not my PSU, hard drive... possibly, however I have another HDD waiting (unboxed) to be used so when I get my components back I will install with this HDD just to be safe. If now it still BSODS I think it's fair to say it's definately the motherboard, agreed?
 
tundra said:
you can use hdtune or speedfan to check your hdd
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Thanks for the tip, however I know the HDD is definately not faulty it's been running 3 days now on the back up system as the primary and only HDD without a fault, just got an RMA notice back now saying GPU tested fine, so I'm awaiting the response for the RMA on the RAM, me thinkies it's defo the RAM now. Or god forbid the mobo which I will then have to RMA =/
 
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