new build BSOD'ing

ckjocelyn · 15 Sep 2010 at 21:14

evening guys and girls.

my new build is giving my some grief. basically i'm getting a blue screen of death, pain and frustration 75% of the time during startup or randomly during operation. games and applications like firefox crash and windows explorer crash constantly. i've not been using pc for a few years as i used mac for most of my computer needs and i am just starting to get back into it all.

Any help and advice is much appreciated! so heres the details.

Build:
asus p7p55d-e mobo with latest bios 1207
intel i3 530 clocked to 4.04GHz (arctic 7 cooler)
corsair dominator cmd4gx3m2a1600c9 DDR3 4GB @ 1536MHz 1.65V 9-9-9-24
corsair 650w HX PSU
gigabyte gtx460 1GB GPU
windows 7 ultimate 64bit

some of the BSOD flashes:

IRQL not-less-or-equal
page-fault-in-non-paged-area
memory-error

so im thinking i have a problem with the ram?
have tried memtest x86 but cannot get it to run as a boot disk.

any ideas?!

cj

macster · 15 Sep 2010 at 21:31

have you tried running on one stick of ram?

MoodyB · 15 Sep 2010 at 21:55

Do you get the bluescreens, freezing, etc... at stock cpu clocks ?

If you don't, then your overclock isn't fully stable.

If it still bluescreens, etc... at stock then do what macster suggested and test the ram.

ckjocelyn · 15 Sep 2010 at 22:20

It had blue screened before the oc. just removed a stick from B1 and left a stick in A1 and booted ok first of all. downloaded prime 95 64 bit and allowed to run for about 10mins with no problems. performed 3 boot ups, restart and cold start ok. just swapped them over to perform the same test and the same results. everything seems ok. windows boots, firefox and flight simulator x boot and run fine on just one stick?

MoodyB · 15 Sep 2010 at 22:26

See if the ram is running at 1T or 2T. If it's set to 1T or AUTO in the bios, change it to 2T and see if that helps.

thingemajib · 15 Sep 2010 at 23:23

i seem to recall there being a windows version of memtest. Perhaps you could try that instead of the CD.

Dont know how good it is mind you...

Doughnut007 · 16 Sep 2010 at 00:28

ckjocelyn

Can you please give us some more infomation.

I need the actual Stop Error codes from the blue screen

The code will read something like

"STOP 0x0000008E"

I think it is half way down the screen labled Tecnical Info

From what you have said it could well be one of your drivers causing the problem.

ckjocelyn · 16 Sep 2010 at 20:40

heres one example from a crash screen:

Technical Information:

*** STOP: 0X0000001A (0X000000000000888A, 0XFFFFF8A006D9B2F0, OXFFFFF680000FDF9, 0XFFFFFA80028BA5C0).

Will see if i can get the windows version memtest now.

not sure what the 1T, 2T settings are?

(also seems to run prime 95 with both in on safe mode ok)

Doughnut007 · 16 Sep 2010 at 21:29

This was caused by an error in the memory management posibly a bad module or lack of power.
Make sure the modules are seated properly and that the voltage in the bios is correct.
Olso make sure they are in the correct slots.

ckjocelyn · 19 Sep 2010 at 21:30

Have switched the modules around and tried them alone. they work fine in various slots. memtest86 with both sticks produced no errors. voltage is 1.65v as recommended. driver issue?

MrSpoon · 19 Sep 2010 at 23:06

sorry to hijack this thread, but i also bought a p7p55d, a i5 760 and 4gb of the same ram as op.

if i tried to run the ram at 1600mhz as its rated to i got blue screens ect, tried using emp profile which as u know sets ram voltage at 1.65 , it overclocks the cpu 80mhz so i increased voltage al little,

i eventually ran memtest 86+ and with the ram running at 1600 i got bunch of errors within a few mins, however running it at 1333 which is what the board sets it too by default memtest found none,

im intending to return my ram tomorrow as ive had it only a few days.