BSOD - 100000b8

mattius1989 · 1 Mar 2014 at 18:15

Good evening all,

I've been getting an intermittent issue which first surfaced whilst playing FM 2014. The system would slow to a near-stand still and eventually freeze within a ten second period. I put this down to maybe a memory leak issue and thought no more of it.

I've just had the same thing happen to me whilst playing Metro 2033 - I reset my PC and windows game me a "recovered from unexpected error..... 100000b8"

Any ideas what might be causing this error? The only recent changes are a new PSU (went for a Cosair 650 to a 750) and a second 680GTX. I've recently updated my BIOS to the latest to fix a soundcard issue but I had this freezing issue before that update.

Thanks in advance.

Nickolp1974 · 1 Mar 2014 at 18:42

Are all your drivers upto date??

Also upon up a command prompt(cmd) and type, sfc /scannow

Danny75 · 1 Mar 2014 at 19:17

Wonder if it'd also be a good move to take out the sound card (and any drivers for it) and test without it.

mattius1989 · 1 Mar 2014 at 19:19

I've updated my GFX drivers and all windows updates - is there any other specific drivers I should look at?

I've just run a memtest and it passed with no errors. I'm running the scan you mentioned now.

mattius1989 · 1 Mar 2014 at 19:20

Danny75 said:
Wonder if it'd also be a good move to take out the sound card (and any drivers for it) and test without it.

This issue was occurring before I had the sound card.

mattius1989 · 1 Mar 2014 at 19:28

mattius1989 said:
I've updated my GFX drivers and all windows updates - is there any other specific drivers I should look at?

I've just run a memtest and it passed with no errors. I'm running the scan you mentioned now.

The scan didn't find anything wrong.

mattius1989 · 4 Mar 2014 at 23:40

Just to update - I've read that that enabling XMP on the RAM with 4 sticks can be a bit troublesome so I've switched that off. The perfomance mode (RAM) was set to turbo too, so I've set that to normal.

The RAM is now at stock and the CPU @ 4.5. I've taken the overclocks off of the GPUs and ran Heaven for around 3 hours with no problems.

mattius1989 · 6 Mar 2014 at 20:46

A further update - after thinking that I had solved my issues, my system froze up after playing Batman AC for about 3 hours. The settings were maxed out (2xMSAA) in 3D vision. The frame rate suddenly started stuttering severely and eventually the system froze within a 15 second timeframe, requiring a hard reset.

I've been reading a thread i found on Google and have been thinking it could be my PSU. Is a 750w Corsair PSU enough for SLI 680GTX and an oc'd 3570K? Or could the PSU be defective?

Danny75 · 6 Mar 2014 at 22:51

mattius1989 said:
I've been reading a thread i found on Google and have been thinking it could be my PSU. Is a 750w Corsair PSU enough for SLI 680GTX and an oc'd 3570K? Or could the PSU be defective?

Specify which model you have, as all 750w Corsair models aren't the same.

mattius1989 · 6 Mar 2014 at 23:40

I've got the RM750.

mattius1989 · 6 Mar 2014 at 23:53

I've been running OCCT on the CPU for the last two hours and there hasn't been any issues. It just seems to happen during gaming sessions...

JonSmith · 7 Mar 2014 at 01:21

It's probably heat. Take off the CPU overclock and see what happens. More than likely the GPUs are pouring heat into the case and are causing heat related stability.

ThunderGod · 7 Mar 2014 at 06:51

After getting BSOD why don' t you just reinstall win7 ? It worked for me.

mattius1989 · 7 Mar 2014 at 08:18

I'm thinking of just doing a format this weekend - it will take out a lot of variables.

On a side note, I don't think it's heat/load based because the system crashes after few hours of football manager - which isn't very demanding.

mattius1989 · 15 Mar 2014 at 14:49

I think I've solved the issue. Looks like a memory leak issue with Nvidia Streamer Service.

https://forums.geforce.com/default/topic/573811/nvidia-streamer-service-may-be-freezing-your-pc/