Bsod advice.

[Qitarah]

Hi, wanna see if I can pick some brains and see if you guys have any ideas on this Bsod I've just started getting randomly tonight.

I'm running;

Tri-x 290 OC @ stock volts/clocks.
i7 950 currently with a mild over clock of 3.7 @ 1.21 volts.
6 gig corsair 1600 mhz @ 1.6 V (was 1.5 normally for the last 2 years but yer).
Corsair Tx650w.
Win 7 64

*edit*
Motherboard is a x58a-ud3r r2 with latest bios.
13.12 WHQL drivers.


So yer, basically tonight randomly during some gaming I got a BSOD with the error code;

0xa0000001. BlueScreenView suggests atikmdag.sys is causing the crash.

I've been running with my Tri-x installed for a week with no issues @ all, and this randomly just started tonight. The only change I've made was hooking up my 2nd monitor earlier today (was previously only running with 1 monitor). How ever I've been running the PC in games all day with both monitors hooked up (5-6-7 hours worth of gaming). Now all of a sudden (no other changes) I was getting Bsods within 1 min of playing a game. All are the same error code as above.

I reset my overclock and It seemed to fix the BSOD, although admittedly I didnt test a huge amount (about 30-50 mins of gaming).

I've now re-overclocked but backed off a bit, even though my overclock was already pretty mild and at pretty low voltages.

Either way I'm a bit confused as to the sudden onset of the Bsods.

Maybe PSU on the way out? It was purchases like 3 years 4 months ago and has probably got about 11k hours on it, of which my old 5870 was overclocked as has been my processor for the majority of those 11k hours.

Temps are fine for everything as well,

Vrms on the Gpu are @ 70c and 50c while stressed and core is under 70c, processor is around 55-60c underload.

Either way any advise or input would be great.

 

[jh30uk]

What make is Mobo?

 

[Qitarah]

the dreaded gigabyte, should have mentioned sorry!

x58a-ud3r r2. With bios updated.

 

[jh30uk]

Oki, know it worked for 1 week but I was going to say Bios lol.

 

[Qitarah]

Yerrrr well dunno.

Valley: No issues.
Furmark: No issues.
Intelburn/Prime: No issues.

Thought I'd put maximum stress on the PSU I could with OCCT Psu burn "test" (brutal I know but yes) and soon as it was linpacking and rendering the furball of doom the computer shut off instantly. Pretty sure it was the PSU protection kicking in :\

 

[shankly1985]

Run Memtest86 over night.

 

[Qitarah]

Aye was setting it up already!

 

[trentlad]

Give an HDD diagnostics tool a try too, if you're running WD then use Lifeguard.

 

[Qitarah]

Memtest 10 passes fine, will try the SSD and HDD out now as well.

 

[Qitarah]

Tis all going to buggery!


MEMORY_MANAGEMENT bluescreen 0x0000001a

Rebooted and got only 4gb available (6 total) followed shortly by a SYSTEM_THREAD_EXCEPTION_NOT_HANDLED blue screen 0x1000007e


Reset to fail safe defaults and its OK so far, but god knows. 0_O!

 

[shankly1985]

Tis all going to buggery!


MEMORY_MANAGEMENT bluescreen 0x0000001a

Rebooted and got only 4gb available (6 total) followed shortly by a SYSTEM_THREAD_EXCEPTION_NOT_HANDLED blue screen 0x1000007e


Reset to fail safe defaults and its OK so far, but god knows. 0_O!

Test RAM stick one by one with Memtest86.

 

[chaosophy]

As above, try testing memory etc one at a time.

But it may also be worth re-flashing the mobo, even if you have the latest BIOS and this should reset all the cmos etc. Then either run at defaults (with disabling what you don't need etc), or a mild o/c on the CPU but set mem to advertised stock.

Unplug and reseat everything, things can work loose with the constant expanding/shrinking from temp differences. So re do any/all cables, reseat memory, slot components, power connectors etc etc.

 

[Qitarah]

Pretty sure its either a faulty ram stick or IMC degrading.

Mayyyybe PSU, but not sure.


Anyways thanks for the help guys, just cba with this old crappy system any more just gonna get a new mobo/ram/cpu/psu cant be bothered wasting more time on this.