BSOD on £1100 rig, pls help

--- Z --- · 2 Feb 2008 at 16:02

Right i recieved my shiuny new pc and assebled it but i have a slight problem, in windows surfing or low end stuff its fine, but if i try to play a game i get the dreaded BSOD. But i cant find out why? i have the following kit

Q6600 cpu
Asus P5K Premium
2x2GB OCZ reaper 800mhz
OCUK value 8800GTX (my god its huge)
and 2 Seagate 500GB 32mb cashe HDD's
Windows Vista Ultimate 64bit edition

is there a program that i can get that will record what happens if something fails?

Please help, i really dont know what to do.

--- Z --- · 2 Feb 2008 at 16:03

Oh, also i cant get it to detect the other HDD even when its connected Windows only shows one there.

Crashgate3 · 2 Feb 2008 at 16:07

If its only happening in games, it sounds like either something is overheating or the PSU is either broken or not powerful enough.

What PSU does it have?

jak731 · 2 Feb 2008 at 16:08

has the second hdd been formatted?
have you tried looking in computer management > disk management for the hdd?

are voltages correct?
what PSU are you running?

--- Z --- · 2 Feb 2008 at 16:08

corsair 620W

jak731 · 2 Feb 2008 at 16:14

that PSU is more then enough for that rig, provided it isnt faulty

Munkeh · 2 Feb 2008 at 16:14

Should be ok, what voltage is your ram running at? Most BSOD's I have found are RAM related.

--- Z --- · 2 Feb 2008 at 16:37

Ok, its happeningin widows too (i probably just wasnt in windiws long enough to see it happen)

How do i find out what voltage my ram is? is it through the bios? can i do it from Windows?

jak731 · 2 Feb 2008 at 16:44

you find out and set it in your Bios, DDR2 ram voltages is normally about 2V, but it may vary a bit for each brand

--- Z --- · 2 Feb 2008 at 16:45

right, ill go have a look - and let you know

RJC · 2 Feb 2008 at 16:58

If that is does not work try only one stick of RAM or run mem-test.

--- Z --- · 2 Feb 2008 at 17:00

it doesnt like something had to manually reset the pc to get back to windows.

But have noticed 2 things that might help you lot help me;

1) cant find RAM voltage anywhere but i have the following
VCORE voltage 1.224v
3.3v voltage 3.312v
5v voltage 4.968v
12v voltage 11.928v

2) when i get hat BSOD and i eventually get it back to post - it can come up with "overclock failed! press F1 to enter setup F2 to restore default bios"

But i havent overclocked it at all

What do i do now?

Munkeh · 2 Feb 2008 at 17:25

DL CPU-z and post up the ram voltage on that. As mentioned earlier, try 1 stick only first.

--- Z --- · 2 Feb 2008 at 17:26

would that be the FSB DRAM number? if so cpuz says 2.3

--- Z --- · 2 Feb 2008 at 17:30

core voltage on CPU is 1.120v

--- Z --- · 2 Feb 2008 at 17:32

Arr found it, with both sticks in out of the 4 slots it says voltages for 2,3 & 4 of 1.8v, 1.8v 2.0v

smsmasters · 2 Feb 2008 at 17:54

What does the BSOD say?

NathanE · 2 Feb 2008 at 17:56

Upload the files in c:\windows\minidumps somewhere and I can tell you what is causing the BSODs...

--- Z --- · 2 Feb 2008 at 18:54

will do, but where will i find that file? will it be at the location you said? c:\windows\minidumps

dr. sarf · 2 Feb 2008 at 19:23

The black bracket on the OcUK GTX can be removed, then it'll just be standard size.

Set the voltage to 2.1v and timings to 4-4-4-15.
If that doesn't work, you can always run Memtest as already suggested, to eliminate a RAM fault.