Been having the above BSOD on both Vista and XP now. I thought it might have been a Vista issue, so I've just formatted today and put Windows XP Professional back on. Went great, the installed SP2, rebooted and got the BSOD. Then it automatically rebooted itself, only number I caught was 0xc000005 and something about "subsystem". When it started back up, I entered my XP password, got into Windows desktop and after about 5 seconds, got the BSOD again. So it automatically rebooted, as I never had a chance to turn off the auto-reboot thing. Couldn't catch any info as it rebooted too fast.
Booted back up this time in safe mode, and undid a few things that I had done, which was create a start-up shortcut for Core Temp and placed it in the Startup folder in the start menu and uninstalled Firefox which was all I added. Then went back into Windows normal mode, and it didn't reboot.
I also had this problem with Vista over the past week, and it seemed to have started when I put my overclock back on. Although not as high as I was at 3.2 Ghz before, then took the overclock off due to overheating, and decided to put 2.8 Ghz back on when I sorted temperatures and heat issues. Vista was a bit different however, it didn't give the IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL BSOD, also it only seemed to happen from a cold boot, such as if I turned the PC off over night and back on in the morning, it would boot up, BSOD, then automatically reboot and the 2nd time around it always worked. Last step was when I decided to error scan the drive, went away to make a cuppa, came back and PC was at the Vista logon screen, and when I logged on I got the pop up about windows shutting down unexpectidly (press "Find a solution" made the box search, then it just closed).
Things I've seen/done:
Overclock settings are:
Read a few articles on Google suggesting that it could happen when something is not getting enough volts/power. CPU won't need more as it's a very mild overclock, RAM however it wasn't sure. The memory is listed as 4-4-4-12 timings but when you set it to "Normal" in the BIOS it shows 5-5-5-15 in CPU-Z, so confused about that, but I shifted the timings down to 5-5-5-15 forced, from 4-4-4-12 forced and it's not BSODed yet, but I only tend to get them after a cold boot when the PC has been off for a while. Will know more tomorrow morning.
Anything else I should try that people can recommend, or know more on this BSOD? I've done a check on the forums and found some stuff but a lot of it didn't really match in with mine.
Booted back up this time in safe mode, and undid a few things that I had done, which was create a start-up shortcut for Core Temp and placed it in the Startup folder in the start menu and uninstalled Firefox which was all I added. Then went back into Windows normal mode, and it didn't reboot.
I also had this problem with Vista over the past week, and it seemed to have started when I put my overclock back on. Although not as high as I was at 3.2 Ghz before, then took the overclock off due to overheating, and decided to put 2.8 Ghz back on when I sorted temperatures and heat issues. Vista was a bit different however, it didn't give the IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL BSOD, also it only seemed to happen from a cold boot, such as if I turned the PC off over night and back on in the morning, it would boot up, BSOD, then automatically reboot and the 2nd time around it always worked. Last step was when I decided to error scan the drive, went away to make a cuppa, came back and PC was at the Vista logon screen, and when I logged on I got the pop up about windows shutting down unexpectidly (press "Find a solution" made the box search, then it just closed).
Things I've seen/done:
- I've ran Orthos on the Vista build for a little over 8 hours and no errors at all.
- I've error checked both of my hard drives and no errors have been found.
- I've defragged both the hard drives.
- It happens on XP and Vista, both 32bit versions
- Only appeared to happen when I put my overclock back on.
- Shifted RAM timings to 5-5-5-15.
Overclock settings are:
- CPU @ 2.8ghz (stock: 2.13ghz), 350 x 8, default voltage.
- RAM @ 700 Mhz 4-4-4-12 forced timings (stock: 667mhz, 4-4-4-12??), default voltage.
- PCI-E: 100Mhz locked.
- EIST/C1E set to off.
Read a few articles on Google suggesting that it could happen when something is not getting enough volts/power. CPU won't need more as it's a very mild overclock, RAM however it wasn't sure. The memory is listed as 4-4-4-12 timings but when you set it to "Normal" in the BIOS it shows 5-5-5-15 in CPU-Z, so confused about that, but I shifted the timings down to 5-5-5-15 forced, from 4-4-4-12 forced and it's not BSODed yet, but I only tend to get them after a cold boot when the PC has been off for a while. Will know more tomorrow morning.
Anything else I should try that people can recommend, or know more on this BSOD? I've done a check on the forums and found some stuff but a lot of it didn't really match in with mine.
Last edited:
Worth upping the vdimm though? It's only 33 Mhz over stock settings, and the timings are relaxed to 5-5-5-15 as they are apparantly meant to be 4-4-4-12.
