Blue Screen of Death

Sansom · 4 Nov 2012 at 00:40

System specs:

SSD: 60GB
HDD: 1TB
RAM: 16GB
Graphics Card: Geforce gtx 670
Processor: Intenel Core i5-3570k CPU 3.40GHz (Although is overclocked to 4.40GHz but I've checked to see if it is actually overclocked)
Motherboard: Gigabyte Z77X-UD3H Intel Z77
I can't actually remember off the top of my head what my PSU think its around 600w but I can't be sure.
OS: Windows 7

Is there any think else you need to know?

wazza300 · 4 Nov 2012 at 00:46

is it factory overclocked or yourself? 9c bsod can be either not enough cpu voltage or memory related

what timings and dram voltage are you using for your ram?

Sansom · 4 Nov 2012 at 00:48

Factory overclocked and I have no idea what your second sentence even means, sorry.

wazza300 · 4 Nov 2012 at 00:51

in your bios look in the m.i.t section and look for dram voltage and see how much its using and post a screenshot of cpu-z/memory tab

ftp://ftp.cpuid.com/cpu-z/cpu-z_1.62-64bits-en.zip cpu-z

Sansom · 4 Nov 2012 at 00:57

http://img252.imageshack.us/img252/3859/cpuzf.png

wazza300 · 4 Nov 2012 at 01:01

are you using easytune? look in the voltages tab if you are and see what the target voltage is for dram

Sansom · 4 Nov 2012 at 01:04

I'm not using easy tune, I do have CPUID Hardware Monitor installed, not sure if thats any use, I've uploaded a screenshot just in case:

http://img842.imageshack.us/img842/9919/cpuidhwm.png

wazza300 · 4 Nov 2012 at 01:13

well its at 1.51v,pretty low imo for 16gb of ram,your timings are pretty loose but still id say you need more dram voltage

have aread through your motherboard manual on how to set the dram voltage,itll be in the bios under m.i.t just look for dram voltage and use the + key to raise it to 1.55v then save/exit and see if its any better

1.55v is safe to use,might need more but try that first

Sansom · 4 Nov 2012 at 01:34

I upped the voltage to 1.54v as for some reason it wouldn't let me go to 1.55 it was either 1.54 or 1.56.

Now as my BSOD seems to be random, I'll test it out in the morning to see if I still have issues. Ty for the help, hopefully it worked.

wazza300 · 4 Nov 2012 at 01:36

1.56v will be ok too,but see how it goes first,

Sansom · 23 Dec 2012 at 22:50

Ok so it happened again:

On Sun 23/12/2012 22:47:55 GMT your computer crashed
crash dump file: C:\Windows\Minidump\122312-6848-01.dmp
This was probably caused by the following module: hal.dll (hal+0x12A3B)
Bugcheck code: 0x124 (0x0, 0xFFFFFA800D02D028, 0xF2000040, 0x10005)
Error: WHEA_UNCORRECTABLE_ERROR
file path: C:\Windows\system32\hal.dll
product: Microsoft® Windows® Operating System
company: Microsoft Corporation
description: Hardware Abstraction Layer DLL
Bug check description: This bug check indicates that a fatal hardware error has occurred. This bug check uses the error data that is provided by the Windows Hardware Error Architecture (WHEA).
This is likely to be caused by a hardware problem problem. This problem might be caused by a thermal issue.
The crash took place in a standard Microsoft module. Your system configuration may be incorrect. Possibly this problem is caused by another driver on your system which cannot be identified at this time.

Starting to think this PC was a waste of money.

Sansom · 24 Dec 2012 at 01:59

Is it possible that my PC being overclocked is the problem? And if so how do I checked to see if thats the problem?

Sansom · 24 Dec 2012 at 21:51

So I've been speaking to Overclockers Customer Service and they've asked me to test it without my PC being overclocked. How would I go about removing the overclock?