BSOD :(

Roverno · 20 Apr 2012 at 08:27

BSOD ::Solved::

Hi all,

In the last three days pc has hit a BSOD twice and i'm a little stuck on what it could be. Both times it happened i was doing nothing intensive, one was watching a film, the other was looking at a PDF. Rig in Sig.

I would normally fun folding at home on 25% of CPU and have done this for months. Just stopped last week as i wanted my pc a little quieter while i revise for exams. OC settings are x46, 100 BCLK, 1.335V fixed voltage, powersave settings are disabled.

I have tested all 16GB of my ram on memtest.

EDIT: I have just noticed this morning that on the ASRock splash screen and on the mobo, it takes abnormally long on several numbers...

98- console input devices conneted
99- super IO initialosation
9C- usb detect
B4- usb hot plug

These are what the manual have to say about the error code, it literally takes about 4 minute on code B4 so maybe the mobo super IO chip is broken? If

I thought it was only these two that would case a BSOD, but im guessing not...

Help!

Roverno · 20 Apr 2012 at 08:51

I was daft enough not to take down the BSOD code.

My system has now failed to boot three times this morning... everytime time it sits on error code B4.

Roverno · 20 Apr 2012 at 09:02

Now it boots again, but still extremely slowly. Tried taking out sound card, wireless adapter, usb 2 and 3 front i/o cables and stil boots slow. Must be sdd or hdd that is making boot slow?

Roverno · 20 Apr 2012 at 09:16

B4 in the manual says "USB hot plug".

Health status on HDtune says OK for my 3TB Hitachi,

M4 Crucial says health status n/a...

Roverno · 20 Apr 2012 at 09:25

Just noticed XAI mouse causes issues with it... Bought one recently! What a ridiculous thing to make a pc BSOD?!?! Bios update should sort it out. Will post again after update

Roverno · 20 Apr 2012 at 09:30

I am making the assumption that 1.20 will include all the benefits of 1.10 too? would be pretty stupid if it didnt?

Roverno · 20 Apr 2012 at 09:54

desires said:
BIOS completely over-writes everything, it's an update in that it's better, but it's not just tacking some info on the old one it's literally replacing it all.

Ye i knew it would overwrite the current bios, just wasn't sure if it would contain the same updated features. apparently it does, all seems to be fine now. will be running a dismal 4.2 OC until my watercooling is ready.