Blue Screen of death...please help!

questforquiet · 31 Aug 2012 at 13:01

Had my system for a year now everything fine (apart from it doesn't like liteon dvd writers...

Anyway my system

MS Windows XP Professional 32-bit SP3

ntel Core i7 2600K @ 3.40GHz
Sandy Bridge 32nm Technology

4.00 GB Dual-Channel DDR3 @ 669MHz (9-9-9-20)

Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. Z68XP-UD3 (Socket 1155)

238GB M4-CT256M4SSD2 (SSD)

PIONEER BD-RW BDR-207D

I have changed the ram and still get blue screens, so problem isn't the ram

Bascially i am getting loads of blue screens per day and the computer completely resets in the bios

ACHI changes back to IDE, so i have change again etc

This is the error message
stop 0x000000f4 (0x00000003, 0X88DBD458,0X88DBD5CC,0X805D22DA)

Anyone got any idea's?...guessing motherboard faulty?

I haven't added any new hardware/software recently...

Thanks

stuie · 31 Aug 2012 at 13:02

if its doing a full reset then its psu/mobo related

Renton · 31 Aug 2012 at 13:05

Google/Download a free bluescreen viewer, they give far more information than windows does which will help diagnose the issue

I seem to remember having some 0000000f4 blue screens ages ago and i think it was graphics related but I cant be sure, I take it your using onboard as you havent mentionad a g card in your spec?

questforquiet · 31 Aug 2012 at 13:23

Thanks for the replies will check the bluescreen viewer out

Btw my PSU is a Seasonic X-460FL

Cheers

Speed · 31 Aug 2012 at 13:27

F4s can be SSD or SATA controller related, so make sure you have the very latest drivers from the Gigabyte website for that: http://uk.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=3978#ov

Check your motherboards revision, printed on the bottom left of the board. Also make sure your SSD is running the latest Firmware.

cyanide5000 · 31 Aug 2012 at 13:53

Trouble shoot it by removing one piece of hardware at a time, like RAM and stuff, also clean all your heatskins out - if they have gathered a lot of dust over the year, your machine could be overheating

shankly1985 · 31 Aug 2012 at 17:44

NirSoft BlueScreenView is very good. It will list drivers in red that making it bsod

questforquiet · 31 Aug 2012 at 17:55

shankly1985 said:
NirSoft BlueScreenView is very good. It will list drivers in red that making it bsod

Thanks just downloaed it and it listing the intel Graphics drivers in red...see below

Listed the below 4 times

igxpdv32.DLL

And this one once

win32k.sys

shankly1985 · 31 Aug 2012 at 18:09

questforquiet said:
Thanks just downloaed it and it listing the intel Graphics drivers in red...see below

Listed the below 4 times

igxpdv32.DLL

And this one once

win32k.sys

Go to your Motherboard's site and check to see if they is display driver updates. Also download chipset updates.
Have you ever installed display update from windows update? that could be an issue.
Another thing I notice you running XP If I was you I would think about going windows 7.

shankly1985 · 31 Aug 2012 at 18:13

This where you can download the drivers.

http://ee.gigabyte.com/products/page/mb/ga-z68xp-ud3rev_10/download/

questforquiet · 31 Aug 2012 at 23:33

shankly1985 said:
This where you can download the drivers.

http://ee.gigabyte.com/products/page/mb/ga-z68xp-ud3rev_10/download/

Thanks tried everything now but all i am getting is 15min of PC and then Blue Screen

Anyone think it could be the M4 SSD?

If it is the motherboard is it easy to return with a fault like this?. (never had to return a motherboard before)

Thanks

questforquiet · 1 Sep 2012 at 14:21

questforquiet said:
Thanks tried everything now but all i am getting is 15min of PC and then Blue Screen

Anyone think it could be the M4 SSD?

If it is the motherboard is it easy to return with a fault like this?. (never had to return a motherboard before)

Thanks

Just tried bcking uop the hard drive but it failes at the 60% and gives me a disc error...starting to look like the hard drive?

Speed · 1 Sep 2012 at 15:50

As mentioned in my previous post, check the M4 is running the latest firmware.

Also, check the manual to see what type of port you've connected it, ideally you want it connected to an Intel port in AHCI mode. If you are currently running IDE mode and change it you'll likely cause a BSOD when booting to Windows although I'm sure you know this as you've changed it before. There are plenty of guides about this though. Usually you make a change in Windows before switching the mode in the BIOS. Also to cover all the bases change the SATA cable for another if you have a spare.

cammy5477 · 1 Sep 2012 at 20:13

Id say windows xp is your problem with all that upto date hardware.

I tried to install xp as a second operating system on my rig like yours upto date hardware and it didnt like it one bit kept BSOD me all the time.

install windows 7 and you will have no more issues

questforquiet · 5 Sep 2012 at 16:59

Speed said:
As mentioned in my previous post, check the M4 is running the latest firmware.

Also, check the manual to see what type of port you've connected it, ideally you want it connected to an Intel port in AHCI mode. If you are currently running IDE mode and change it you'll likely cause a BSOD when booting to Windows although I'm sure you know this as you've changed it before. There are plenty of guides about this though. Usually you make a change in Windows before switching the mode in the BIOS. Also to cover all the bases change the SATA cable for another if you have a spare.

Sorry for the delay, yes thanks it was the firmware
I bought the drive last year and never updated the firmware. I searched google and found there was a known fault with drives with the old firmware. After a certain amount of time they would start powering down. Updated the firmware and perfect now

Many thanks for the all replies