Hi, constant BSOD whilst gaming, running benchies

Darujhistan · 1 Jun 2012 at 14:41

Was fine until this morning and woke up to a BSOD 'hardware error' after I switched it on (was shutdown correctly overnight).

Which was worrying.

Then tried SKYRIM 3 times BSOD immediately all three times, ran heaven (fine), tried fmark and again BSOD.

Where do I start trying to sort this?

MetaStable · 1 Jun 2012 at 14:49

Do you know what temperatures your card gets up to? As a reference I have a HD7850 and get to 69C in Furmark.

Darujhistan · 1 Jun 2012 at 14:50

No happened whilst using Acronis...

Get the feeling it's SSD.

The error was the hardware dump type error, that says it's going to restart PC in 45 secs but the countdown was stuck on 45

Darujhistan · 1 Jun 2012 at 14:51

MetaStable said:
Do you know what temperatures your card gets up to? As a reference I have a HD7850 and get to 69C in Furmark.

I have checked it immediately after finishing, its around 40 c max.

tommybhoy · 1 Jun 2012 at 14:51

Darujhistan said:
Where do I start trying to sort this?

Darujhistan said:
Get the feeling it's SSD.

You have an M4, have you got the 5000 hour bug?

System hanging after 1hr, even when idling?

If yes then that's the problem, it happened to me and it caused all sorts of problems and head scratching.

Huge instability problems all round(not just gaming) if your drives affected.

Fixable by new firmware too, info in here:

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18392363

Before you start pulling everything out, if you haven't updated your M4, then try it first.

Darujhistan · 1 Jun 2012 at 14:52

Oh yes, also woke up to 'OC failed' - had been using asus mobo utility, everything back at stock now.

MetaStable · 1 Jun 2012 at 14:53

Ah ok, don't have any SSD in my system so I can't really help with that.

As an aside if you are running multi-monitors with the 7850 I would recommend using CAT12.6 Beta drivers, I had issues with desktop BSOD under 12.4.

tommybhoy · 1 Jun 2012 at 14:53

Here was my problems:

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18401265

Darujhistan · 1 Jun 2012 at 14:55

tommybhoy said:
You have an M4, have you got the 5000 hour bug?

System hanging after 1hr, even when idling?

If yes then that's the problem, it happened to me and it caused all sorts of problems and head scratching.

Huge instability problems all round(not just gaming) if your drives affected.

Fixable by new firmware too, info in here:

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18392363

Before you start pulling everything out, if you haven't updated your M4, then try it first.

I've only had it about 4 weeks at most.

Yes I updated firmware when I built it - from that very thread.

I haven't noticed hanging at all.

Darujhistan · 1 Jun 2012 at 14:57

MetaStable said:
Ah ok, don't have any SSD in my system so I can't really help with that.

As an aside if you are running multi-monitors with the 7850 I would recommend using CAT12.6 Beta drivers, I had issues with desktop BSOD under 12.4.

No, single monitor.

Ok, I'm on 12.3, pretty sure they're quite recent. Trying 12.6 beta.

Darujhistan · 1 Jun 2012 at 15:05

Installed 12.6, gonna reboot and try stuff out.

MetaStable · 1 Jun 2012 at 15:09

Ok, I have been running them a couple hours with no problems now. Was giving me BSOD doing nothing but moving windows about before lol.

Darujhistan · 1 Jun 2012 at 15:10

crashed PC running furmark.

MetaStable · 1 Jun 2012 at 15:20

You could try this program: WhoCrashed 3.04

http://www.resplendence.com/downloads

Just install, run and click analyze. Might give you a some useful information, to see if it is a driver issue.

Darujhistan · 1 Jun 2012 at 15:23

Thanks,

got this back.

Crash dump directory: C:\Windows\Minidump

Crash dumps are enabled on your computer.

On Fri 01/06/2012 13:01:34 GMT your computer crashed
crash dump file: C:\Windows\memory.dmp
This was probably caused by the following module: Unknown ()
Bugcheck code: 0x124 (0x0, 0xFFFFFA8009380028, 0xBE200000, 0x5110A)
Error: WHEA_UNCORRECTABLE_ERROR
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.
A third party driver was identified as the probable root cause of this system error. It is suggested you look for an update for the following driver: Unknown .
Google query: Unknown WHEA_UNCORRECTABLE_ERROR

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Conclusion
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1 crash dumps have been found and analyzed. A third party driver has been identified to be causing system crashes on your computer. It is strongly suggested that you check for updates for these drivers on their company websites. Click on the links below to search with Google for updates for these drivers:

unknown

If no updates for these drivers are available, try searching with Google on the names of these drivers in combination the errors that have been reported for these drivers and include the brand and model name of your computer as well in the query. This often yields interesting results from discussions from users who have been experiencing similar problems.

Read the topic general suggestions for troubleshooting system crashes for more information.

Note that it's not always possible to state with certainty whether a reported driver is actually responsible for crashing your system or that the root cause is in another module. Nonetheless it's suggested you look for updates for the products that these drivers belong to and regularly visit Windows update or enable automatic updates for Windows. In case a piece of malfunctioning hardware is causing trouble, a search with Google on the bug check errors together with the model name and brand of your computer may help you investigate this further.

MetaStable · 1 Jun 2012 at 15:35

Interesting, could be a number of things really. I would run memtest from boot and check there are no RAM issues, leave it a good few hours and see if any errors show up.. there should be none at all.

http://www.memtest.org/

I have had faulty RAM in the past, good corsair stuff too. If you do get a fault then try taking out sticks and see if you can eliminate which one is faulty, once you have done this you can see if that was causing your BSOD or not.

Darujhistan · 1 Jun 2012 at 15:56

cheers running memtest now.

I hope it's faulty RAM, far less faff than SSD issues. Can't help thinking it's SSD though.

Would you reccomend, a complete reinstall of W7, but this time on my HDD?

MetaStable · 1 Jun 2012 at 15:58

You could try that yes, although does the system crash even when you are not stressing it? through normal desktop use.

Darujhistan · 1 Jun 2012 at 16:03

MetaStable said:
You could try that yes, although does the system crash even when you are not stressing it? through normal desktop use.

It crashed once with Acronis, other than that - no. Now, this is reminiscent of an issue I had years ago, where when asked for power for gaming benchies etc it would just switch off, - black screen - power loss. I could surf with no bother, but as soon as the GPu wanted juice, game over.

Of course that tuned out to be the PSU, my first thought, but instead of listening to gut instinct and checking that first went all round the houses first!!!!

This prob is different though, it's BSOD rather than shut off.

44% thru memtest - no errors.

MetaStable · 1 Jun 2012 at 16:10

Yeah, if not the RAM then try swapping the PSU if you have another/borrow one just to eliminate that.

After that it could be something to do with the mobo or CPU, maybe try a CPU reseat and bios update if there is one available.

With memtest I would leave it to run another pass, just to be extra sure.