Somethings failing, but what?

pgi947 · 21 Dec 2013 at 23:54

So over the last week or so something has been acting up...

Random BSOD's in game or even idling at desktop, off the top of my head I've had:

"IRQL IS NOT LESS OR EQUAL"

AND

"Critical Structure Corruption"

Googling for either doesn't specifically point me in any real direction.

I've also had some games go completely missing, steam saying that the games installed ready to play, it won't open, verify integrity and it redownloads the entire game as if it either wasn't there or every file became corrupt.

I also ran AIDA64 stress test which failed inside a minute with "hardware failure detected" but no other information besides that - no crash I might add.

So far I've gone back to stock, still some BSOD (IRQL one), ran SSD life which says SSD is 100%, ran chkdsk which says my HDD is fine. Just about to run Memtest, but if that comes back clean I'm fresh out of ideas besides OS corruption.

4770K
X-OC
8GB GSkill TridentX 2400mhz C10
Dual 780's
HX1000W
240GB Agility 3
1TB Samsung

Anything else I should be looking for?

Geeman1979 · 22 Dec 2013 at 00:15

Psu not as efficient as it used to be? Failing that, if the memory checks out fine i'd try a fresh install.

pipson · 22 Dec 2013 at 02:30

Could be an OS or drivers problem?

troops · 22 Dec 2013 at 03:02

"IRQL IS NOT LESS OR EQUAL" is usually ram ive found or ram related.

murah · 22 Dec 2013 at 03:53

Yep sounds like ram to me, otherwise have you done a windows update recently? Had an update that went corrupt took me 5 hours to fix that one and I dont know which specific update went fubar because I did a whole load of them

pgi947 · 22 Dec 2013 at 10:11

Will run memtest as soon as I get back from costco

Haven't had ram fail on me since ~2004

fortunately I have 3 spare memory kits should that be the issue.

No os updates that spring to mind, though a clean os install wouldn't hurt.

pgi947 · 22 Dec 2013 at 12:57

2 passes in, all is well with the memory so far

pgi947 · 22 Dec 2013 at 13:37

Scratch that, re-ran and got this:

Time to get this ram off for RMA

wazza300 · 22 Dec 2013 at 13:53

maybe your ssd is playing up? esp if games are missing,that or memory id be looking into

don't think sandforce work well on z87/intel ports? could be older sandforce though

pgi947 · 22 Dec 2013 at 17:30

Looks like it was the ram wazza, swapped it out for a spare set of 1866 hyperX and it passes the tests fine and more importantly no BSOD's so far