BSOD while gaming..

j3nni

j3nni

j3nni

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Hey jsut wondering if i can get any help with this. I built my pc a couple of weeks ago now, specs below..

HIS HD 7950 3072MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card
(overclocked bundle)Krypton Z68 600i Intel Core i5 2500K 3.30GHz @ 4.60GHz Overclocked Bundle
with: Kingston HyperX Genesis Grey 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (KHX1600C9D3X2K2/8GX
with: Asus P8Z68-V GEN3 Intel Z68 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard
Crucial RealSSD M4 128GB 2.5" SATA 6Gb/s Solid State Hard Drive
Seagate Barracuda 2TB 7200RPM SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache
XFX 650W XXX Edition Modular '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply
Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 64-Bi
Samsung SH-S222BB/RSMS 22x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter

When i first built it on the 23rd Feb i had a couple of blue screens, but then i had no more so i forgot about it. Today it's had numerous blue screens on it while the other half has been playing big games. It's only happened when playing the games, not when using the pc for anything else. I'm not clued up on what errors mean :( I had a look in the crash dumps and it's mentioning hal.dll and ntoskrnl.exe as the file names causing the problems, but that's where my knowledge stops. Can anyone help me with what to try do about it, i'd really appreciate it.
I uploaded my crash dumps here: http://www.mediafire.com/?fpiup32fjdqnq2k
 
http://forums.tweaktown.com/gigabyte/43058-bsod-error-codes.html Looks like your overclock is not stable... 0x124 On Sat 03/03/2012 16:05:40 GMT your computer crashed
crash dump file: C:\Windows\Minidump\030312-24850-01.dmp
This was probably caused by the following module: hal.dll (hal+0x12A3B)
Bugcheck code: 0x124 (0x0, 0xFFFFFA8008632028, 0xBE200000, 0x5110A)
Error: WHEA_UNCORRECTABLE_ERROR
file path: C:\Windows\system32\hal.dll
product: Microsoft® Windows® Operating System
company: Microsoft Corporation
description: Hardware Abstraction Layer DLL
Bug check description: This bug check indicates that a fatal hardware error has occurred. This bug check uses the error data that is provided by the Windows Hardware Error Architecture (WHEA).
This is likely to be caused by a hardware problem problem. This problem might be caused by a thermal issue.
The crash took place in a standard Microsoft module. Your system configuration may be incorrect. Possibly this problem is caused by another driver on your system which cannot be identified at this time. Could be that the i5 2500k needs more voltage... I would call OC monday and tell them about the blue screens and the code 0x124 errors.. Since you bought the bundle already overclocked from them....Forgot to say for you to check your temps also.........
 
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I'll try that memtest to see if it's the ram. I do sort of hope it is just a simple instablilty with the overclock bundle, rather than something worse. I did keep an eye on temps when the games were being played. Gpu seemed okay, didn't go above 50C. The cpu idles at mid 30s but during the games was at late 70's, reaching upto 80C. I thought maybe the Corsair A50 Cooler that came with the bundle might not be the best for cooling it down, or it might just be because it's not stable
 
90% more than likely to be the ram.

test it and then move on to more PITA stuff :(
 
I did the memtest this morning, could only leave it on for an hour but it said it passed with no errors.. so does that mean it's not the ram?
 
So if it's an unstable overclock do i need to contact OC for new settings or will i need to send the bundle back?

I was going to turn the OC profile off to see if it's fine without being overclocked but i'm not sure how to find defaults, i couldn't see anything obvious in the BIOS and i'm not good enough at that sort of thing to want to go clicking stuff i'm not sure of
 
look in bios and see what dram voltage and vccio voltage is set to

theres new bios out which improves memory compatibilty and stability but if you update bios you will void ocuk oc settings so save them first to a usb stick,press f12 for each screen ect
 
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You can go into the bios and load optimized defaults and see if it is stable then, the motherboard manual will help you , but since your not used to fiddling around with the bios settings your best bet is to call them , make sure you tell them that it blue screened when you first got it......
 
Right checked the voltages.. dram voltage was set to auto and it was showing around 1.570v, and vccio voltage was set to auto and showing around 1.053v

I found how to load optimized defaults so i've loaded that on.. i'll see if any crashing happens during browsing or gaming during the day
 
Computers not crashed so far using optimized defaults so could well be an unstable overclock. Will i need to contact OC for some new numbers to try? The whole point of getting the overclocked bundle was because i didn't want to do it myself lol
 
if its blue screening in games,points to vccio voltage imo,i would try one or two clicks more/retest,you wont need much and no more than 1.2v

around three clicks more from stock imo
 
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