BSOD SOS!!!

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music4mybumhole

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Hi, just upgraded my PC and am getting repeated blue screens, so just thought I put the symptoms up and see if anyone can help.
Apologies in advance but I'll put a bit of history up so may be a long one.

Upgraded as system was freezing and then on re-bbot would be really hard to get to load into standard boot. Maybe have to try safe mode first and restart a few times. Eventually found that if I took all but one RAM module out it would boot, but still could freeze after 15 min, then on rebopot would freeze quicker and quicker.

So..

New mobo, CPU and RAM installed and on come the BSOD's.
It generally happens when trying to do more than one job at a time and especially on opening Google Chrome. The Mrs said last night it happened when she turned the printer on and as I've done a full re-install I notice it very frequently when installing a new program.

I'm thinking the only thing left to change would be the HDD (looking at the 1TB F3's as it seems like a good excuse).

Any other comments or ideas would be very welcome.

Just to be up front too, my Windows is of a grey area, but is used on my Mrs lappy and no issues whatsoever.

Have also installed a new Abit Airpace wifi PCI Express card with this new install, but it's working fine so don't envisage any compatibility issues.

thanks in advance for any help.
 
Grey area Windows eh, is it 7 or XP?

BSODs after an upgrade even after a reinstall are signs of a hardware or BIOS configuration problem.

You could run a SMART diagnostic tool like SpeedFAN or HDTune which will analyse and result out the SMART data the HDD reports to tell you if it is healthy but I think it's most likely RAM and incorrect RAM timings. Set the timings manually in the BIOS according to the spec the manufacturer rates them at.

What brand and wattage is the PSU? Cheap PSUs can also cause instability.
 
Hi, thanks for your recommendation, now that you mention I do think it might be to do with the RAM timings.

I have: http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MY-057-GS

Would I be right in saying that these are the timings: 9-9-9-24 2N
How would I go about changing these on a new Asus board?

Any the PSU is a Thermaltake Purepower 450W, and I'm not even running a graphics card, so don't think it's the issue.

Thanks again.
 
OK so I had a look in the BIOS, sorry, not much experience in that area. but I did find where to change the memory timings from auto to manual.
Problem then was that there are 17 options that all look a little similar. So it's just knowing which ones to change. :-S
 
Okay, took a look at a couple of your dumps and something is seriously funky here. Something is making the kernel crash (ntkrnlpa.exe, you're running 32 bit windows with PAE enabled right?) and given the fact it's null pointer refs, unhandled exceptions and irql nle errors it's either dodgy ram, malware, or a driver is being silly. HAL and NETIO.SYS have bailed too it looks like.

Seeing that i despise megaupload and dont really want to download more dumps individually the driver that could be the culprit looks to be your networking, tried updating those drivers?

I'd also give the machine a precautionary rkill+combofix in case it's a TDSS rootkit variant.
 
Thanks hairybudda for your input. It did remind me that I had not installed the network driver for the new mobo and there had been an error in device manager for it. So I installed the driver but unfortunately a few mins later another crash.
Back to square one.
 
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