Machine lockup - Ramdom BSOD

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I have a very annoying random lockup issue that’s driving me nuts. Sometimes I get the modern BSOD listing a MACHINE_CHECK_ EXCEPTION or CLOCK_WATCHDOG_TIMEOUT, but 90% of the time the machine just freezes completely and needs to have a switch power off.

Hardware was recently bought/built from a mobo cpu and ram from MM. I added the 2nd set of ram, same brand, model and timings.
Setup
Windows 8 Professional x64
Intel i5 750 – Not clocked
Asus P7P55d E Pro motherboard
16GB GSkill Ripjaws DDR 1200 Ram (4 x 4GB sticks) volts at 1.5v and 9-9-924 timing
1 x Adata S511 240GB SATA III SSD Drive
1 x XFX HD6770 GFX Card – Not clocked
1 x LG DVD RW Drive
1 x XFX ProSeries 550W PSU
3 x 120mm fans
1 x Artic Cooling CPU Heatsink/Fan
1 x Artic Cooling GFX Heatsink/Fan

  • I have done ram memtest which passed with no errors.
  • Prime test with no issues.
  • FurMark GFX card test – no issues
  • All temps in the green.
  • Tested each ram stick one by one. None would boot in Slot closest to the CPU, named A1 but all booted fine in other slots.
Last thing to try I think is a PSU or else a OS re-install?
Maybe a Windows 7 install just to check if its stable in there driver wise

Any thoughts gents

Cheers
Gibbs
 
Probably a chipset drivers issue as with Windows 8 being so new.
Did you install the chipset drivers bundled with the mobo, Windows Update or download them manually?
 
CLOCK_WATCHDOG_TIMEOUT is related to the CPU.

Install Win 7, and make sure you get SP1 on there ASAP and run the machine for a couple of weeks. See if you get any other BSODs even if they differ.

I'm betting it's a Windows 8 problem.
 
I just did the normal Windows chip set drivers. Ill install the ones from the mobos web site and see what happens.

CLOCK_WATCHDOG_TIMEOUT has only been seen once, all other BSODs have been a MACHINE_CHECK or just pure lockup.

Ill do Win7 tonight onto the SSD along side Win8 and see what happens.

I doubt its the PSU as its not very old, less than one year and hasn't seen a massive about of load.
 
P55 chipset drivers look to have done the job uptime now > 3hrs ha ha

cheers lads always a help

all the best
j
 
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spoke to soon on this sadly, I need to go back to Win7 for work testing bits so have spent the last few weeks on there. 100% stability the whole time so it Win8 specific.

I have since done a fresh install of Win8 Pro x64 and device manager is fine with the OS drivers installed.

Had periods of 3 or 4hrs working fine then all off a sudden for the next hour it was crashing out just at the lock screen.

Still get the odd CLOCK WATCHDOG TIMEOUT and MACHINE CHECK EXCEPTION errors but mostly just a lockup of the OS and a restart is needed.

heads recked with this at the moment. There's no Win8 drivers for the P55 chipset, installed the Win7 ones on the last install which ended up making no difference.

Event manager is reporting the following:

"The system has rebooted without cleanly shutting down first. This error could be caused if the system stopped responding, crashed, or lost power unexpectedly." EventID 41

"The driver \Driver\WudfRd failed to load for the device ROOT\WPD\0000." EventID 219

"The ScRegSetValueExW call failed for FailureActions with the following error:
Access is denied." EventID 7006

"DCOM got error "1084" attempting to start the service WSearch with arguments "Unavailable" in order to run the server:
{7D096C5F-AC08-4F1F-BEB7-5C22C517CE39}" 10005

These are random "Errors/Critical"

Log oul post but any help is always appreciated
 
in anger last night I pulled the wifi card and turns out thats what was causing the problem.

Machine became instantly stable through out the night and was even still on this morning.

Time for a new wifi card
 
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