BSOD...again!

NickP

NickP

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Hi Guys

Wonder if any of you could shed light on this please

I am getting BSODs recently. The system (listed below) was fine for a month or so then suddenly developed the fault.

System
Win 7 pro 64
version 6.1.7600 Build 7600
CPU: Intel Core i5 760 2.80GHz @ 4.00GHz
Motherboard: Gigabyte P55-USB3 Intel P55 (Socket 1156) DDR3 Motherboard
RAM: Corsair Dominator 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel
Cooler: Akasa Nero S CPU Cooler
Graphics Card ATI RadeonHD 5600 series

see: http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=BU-023-OB

This is the OCUK overclocked bundle

PSU Antec TPQ1000
Crucial C300 SSD 64Gb holding OS
HDD Samsung Spinpoint f3 1T
Plus DVDRW

All the drivers are up to date
Have run memtest86+ and both memory modules seem ok
Bios is Ver F7
Dual HD monitor setup running hydragrid/actual window manager (6.3)/input director

WhoCrashed gives the following reports

On Sun 11/14/2010 1:26:29 PM your computer crashed
This was likely caused by the following module: ntoskrnl.exe
Bugcheck code: 0xA (0x96B, 0x2, 0x1, 0xFFFFF80003213DF2)
Error: IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL
Dump file: C:\Windows\Minidump\111410-17706-01.dmp
file path: C:\Windows\system32\ntoskrnl.exe
product: Microsoft® Windows® Operating System
company: Microsoft Corporation
description: NT Kernel & System
The crash took place in a standard Microsoft module. Your system configuration may be incorrect, possibly the culprit is in another driver on your system which cannot be identified at this time.



On Sun 11/14/2010 1:17:51 PM your computer crashed
This was likely caused by the following module: hardware
Bugcheck code: 0x124 (0x0, 0xFFFFFA800402E028, 0xB2000000, 0x10005)
Error: WHEA_UNCORRECTABLE_ERROR
Dump file: C:\Windows\Minidump\111410-13618-01.dmp



On Mon 11/15/2010 9:40:06 AM your computer crashed
This was likely caused by the following module: ntoskrnl.exe
Bugcheck code: 0x9C (0x0, 0xFFFFF88002FDBB70, 0x0, 0x0)
Error: MACHINE_CHECK_EXCEPTION
Dump file: C:\Windows\Minidump\111510-9921-01.dmp
file path: C:\Windows\system32\ntoskrnl.exe
product: Microsoft® Windows® Operating System
company: Microsoft Corporation
description: NT Kernel & System
The crash took place in a standard Microsoft module. Your system configuration may be incorrect, possibly the culprit is in another driver on your system which cannot be identified at this time.



On Mon 11/15/2010 2:38:20 PM your computer crashed
This was likely caused by the following module: ntoskrnl.exe
Bugcheck code: 0x101 (0x31, 0x0, 0xFFFFF880009E9180, 0x1)
Error: CLOCK_WATCHDOG_TIMEOUT
Dump file: C:\Windows\Minidump\111510-9609-01.dmp
file path: C:\Windows\system32\ntoskrnl.exe
product: Microsoft® Windows® Operating System
company: Microsoft Corporation
description: NT Kernel & System
The crash took place in a standard Microsoft module. Your system configuration may be incorrect, possibly the culprit is in another driver on your system which cannot be identified at this time.



On Mon 11/15/2010 4:05:59 PM your computer crashed
This was likely caused by the following module: ntoskrnl.exe
Bugcheck code: 0x101 (0x31, 0x0, 0xFFFFF880009E9180, 0x1)
Error: CLOCK_WATCHDOG_TIMEOUT
Dump file: C:\Windows\Minidump\111510-10108-01.dmp
file path: C:\Windows\system32\ntoskrnl.exe
product: Microsoft® Windows® Operating System
company: Microsoft Corporation
description: NT Kernel & System
The crash took place in a standard Microsoft module. Your system configuration may be incorrect, possibly the culprit is in another driver on your system which cannot be identified at this time.

So you can see the "Bug" is not always the same each time

Windows repair says there's nothing to repair - I was hoping for a corrupt ntoskrnl.exe or something

I am trying to stress test the video card but it can't finish before a BSOD! As I said the system was perfectly stable for about a month until yesterday!!

CPUID HWM/CPU-z don't show up anything untoward (can post the results if anyone can help).

The only thing which I have done that I can recall was loading Steam and downloading/playing some games (Arx Fatalis and Dragon Age) but the BSOD do not just happen if just playing a game for instance the above stress test

Any guidance would be truly appreciated!

Thanks
Nick
 
Does the machine crap out if it's doing nothing? (or very little) e.g. web browsing, word processing etc. Is it only when you run something graphical you get problems?
 
Interesting question! Thanks for the reply

I am currently just leaving it all alone right now except stuff like outlook/word etc and doing nothing that is graphically intensive and so far so good. Been like that for nearly an hour!

Will keep you posted
 
So...I have had my system on for 5 hrs with no issues running basically nothing except outlook and browser. So I loaded up Dragon Age and lasted for about 20 seconds before the games bombed out but not with BSOD surprisingly but back to windows (about 1/2 hr ago now). So it seems like a graphics card issue to me though could still be ram I suppose. I shall leave it on overnight doing nothing and see if it is still up and running in the morning.
 
Well the system seems stable enough now (though did reboot over-night but with no BSOD) when no graphically intensive apps like games are running. All temps are good etc...

I think it may be a issue between Panda Cloud AV and Steam. Each time I run steam the PCAV software get corrupted i.e the Win 7 action center says I need to turn on anti-virus but appears to be running but without a GUI anymore.

Would this cause the sorts of crashes I have been experiencing do you think?
 
Hi

Have done memtest86+ and modules are ok. HD testing throws up no errors but I will d/l the ultimate boot cd and see if that helps.

Just had another BSOD...so don't think it's panda/steam...think it's just steam

Thanks
 
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Many thanks for the suggestions. Have done chkdsk with just about every and any switch I think is relevent and the disk checks out fine - both actually. Have run the ultimate boot cd but not quite sure what to do with it...so many options!

Trying to find an old game to test out the graphics board and give it some stress to see if the issue is there. As I have said all the temps seem ok..gpu idle temp is 40C and when playing through steam goes to 50C and is pretty stable. Might be coming up for a complete reinstall of windows.

Another interesting thing happening is when installing a prog - in this case stronghold 2 the install shield never completes and I have to close it in task mangler..once I have ended the process the shield says every installed just fine and it has...odd that
 
Well had the PC working for about 24hrs now perfectly well running steam games etc and very stable. The issue seem to be with the overclock. PC passsed all the OCCT/Prime95 tests once the OC had been turned off!!...surprised really
 
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