Sandy Bridge - Cold boot BSOD's

Mattbot2 · 25 Feb 2011 at 19:33

Hello guys,

Have been having cold boot BSOD's on my Sandy Bridge rig since day #1.

Specs are

-i5 2500k
-Asus P8P67 Pro
-Mushkin 4gb PC-12800 DDR3
-EVGA GTX 460

Now, on to the problem.

If the computer is left off for any more than roughly 3 / 4 hours and I try to boot it, I get a BSOD after the Windows 7 loading animation. Usually 5 or 10 reboots later, it will boot into Windows, where everything runs great! I haven't had any BSOD's after being booted into Windows.

One thing I have noticed is this.

Cold boot, RAM in slots 1 and 3, BSOD.

Switch RAM to slots 2 and 4, boots fine.

Shut down, computer goes cold after 4 hours.

Cold boot, RAM in slots 2 and 4, BSOD.

Switch RAM to slots 1 and 3, boots fine.

Which, to me, shows that none of the slots or modules are at fault.

The BSOD's vary, here's some off the top of my head.

NTFS.sys
PAGE FAULT IN NONPAGED AREA
IRQL NOT LESS OR EQUAL
bad pool
Memory management
vga.sys
win32k.sys
c0000071a
c0000071b
SYSTEM_SERVICE_EXCEPTION
0x00000007e

More that I've forgotten too.

Here's the list of things I've tried.

-Latest BIOS
-Memtest
-Stock clocks
-Minimum boot (boot drive only etc)
-Reinstall Windows on different HDD
-2t command rate + 1.55, 1.60 and 1.65v on the RAM
-Manually set correct timings + voltage

Probably tried more things that I can't remember. Throw out ideas and I'll tell you if I've done them or not.

Really fed up with this.

Many thanks,

Matt

neblemak · 25 Feb 2011 at 21:35

Only cold boot problems I've ever had are RAM related. Have you manually set BIOS ram settings to those the vendor specifies (esp. voltage)? Also have you run memtest?

Ignore the memtest bit...I'm obviously blind.

Mattbot2 · 25 Feb 2011 at 22:01

Hey, thanks for the reply.

Yeah that's one of the things I forgot to list, I have manually set the 99924 and 1.50v in the BIOS too.

kmufc77 · 25 Feb 2011 at 22:58

Update the bios to the latest version which is 12.04 i think

Mattbot2 · 25 Feb 2011 at 23:20

kmufc77 said:
Update the bios to the latest version which is 12.04 i think

Am already on 1204

neblemak · 27 Feb 2011 at 20:54

Have you tried with 1 stick of ram at a time?

Mattbot2 · 28 Feb 2011 at 07:20

neblemak said:
Have you tried with 1 stick of ram at a time?

Yea I have, same result.

Grumpyjim · 28 Feb 2011 at 19:34

have you reset the CMOS? i found that whilst i set memory voltage at 1.65 it kept running at 1.5 until i'd done that. just whip out the mobo battery for 30 secs and with any luck that'll help

Mattbot2 · 28 Feb 2011 at 20:07

Grumpyjim said:
have you reset the CMOS? i found that whilst i set memory voltage at 1.65 it kept running at 1.5 until i'd done that. just whip out the mobo battery for 30 secs and with any luck that'll help

Another thing I forgot to mention, have also already done this.

Grumpyjim · 28 Feb 2011 at 20:14

I RMAd my first p8p67 pro and they found it had fault in the CPU management bit of it... i'm still having grief with board 2 and OC suggested I run ultimate boot cd... maybe you could try that see if it identifies the fault