Hi there folks...
I've been having some very strange problems recently with my Windows 7 Ultimate x64 machine. I keep getting these Blue Screens of Death all the time and my system isn't very stable it seems. I'm not sure what's going on, not so long ago I purchased the Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit OEM version from Overclockers for my PC. I've been having these problems when I do a fresh install. I used to run Windows XP Professional (SP3) on this machine before and it was fine, used to run really well but my XP installation messed up recently so I've decided now not to bother with XP anymore and move onto Windows 7.
I'm just in the process of installing it again and I'm being very careful what I'm putting on this time. I have downloaded the correct drivers for my motherboard (ASUS P5Q Deluxe) from the Asus site and I have one a time installed them. I'm not doing anything wrong as far as I know and I have installed systems many times before but on this occasion I just get BSOD every so often.
I have been looking into trying to find out more about Blue Screens of Death and I have been working out how to open a minidump file using a debug program provided by Microsoft. I am about to install this program again so I can look at the most recent minidump file and see what I can learn from it. I have also discovered with Windows 7 that you can use the program built into Windows called Verifier to test your drivers etc.. I have tried using this and it has caused it to blue screen on purpose by stressing out the drivers to see whether it will crash or not. I also understand that when using Verifier you have to boot the machine back up in Safe Mode so you can cancel the settings to allow your machine to run normally again. I have tried all this, I wanted to come here really and post up some of the minidump files so that somebody here might be able to help understand what's causing the problem.
I was installing my machine again over last night and I kept getting a BSOD with the same message all the time which said SYSTEM_SERVICE_EXCEPTION 3B. I did try googling this and on one page for Microsort support on this error it said there was a hotfix to solve this problem. I downloaded the hotfix and tried to install it but it said that "this machine cannot install this update". I was a bit annoyed that it didn't work. I also found various other pages saying different things about this BSOD error.
I need to start again now with this really, I've just made a fresh clean install of Windows 7 Ultimate x64 and it's just updating from Microsoft at the moment. I've put barely any programs on it. I'm sure at some point it will Blue Screen again. At that point I will try and provide more information as to what's happening here.
I do need some help really with all this, it's starting to get me down a bit and I've been trying my best to make my machine work but it's being a pig.
As far as my machine spec is concerned this is what I'm running:
CPU = Intel Core 2 Quad Q9550 @ 2.83Ghz
COOLER = Coolermaster V8
RAM = Corsair Dominator 4GB (2 x 2GB DDR2 1066Mhz)
MOBO = Asus P5Q Deluxe - Bios Version 2301
STORAGE = System drive, WD Blue SATA 500GB
STORAGE 2 = RAID 10, WD Green Caviar SATA 1TB x 4
PSU = Coolermaster ATX 1000Watt
GRAPHICS = ATI Radeon HD 4870 x 2 in Crossfire mode
TV CARD = Compro T750
SOUNDCARD = M-Audio Delta AP 192
CASE = Coolermaster CM Stacker 832
OS = Windows 7 Ultimate x64
I was thinking that there might have been some sort of problem with my System hard drive (WD Blue 500GB) so I plugged it into another machine today and I tested it for errors using HD Tune but it didn't seem to have any problems really. I also tried before I installed Windows 7 again, formatting the entire machine in NTFS very slowly to make sure it was fully wiped before I installed Windows 7 again. I don't think there's anything wrong with the hard drive I'm using. As far as my machine goes there's nothing really wrong with the hardware, everything is plugged in correctly and it seems to be working as it should. It seems to be more of a software problem I'm having. I've also tested the memory in my machine using MemTest and it passed fine, I don't think I have faulty memory as far as I know, it did a couple of passes in MemTest and it was OK.
Not sure what's going on really, I'm trying to be very careful with using it at the moment and I'm sure at some point it will Blue Screen again.
Any help I can get with this will be VERY appreciated.
I've been having some very strange problems recently with my Windows 7 Ultimate x64 machine. I keep getting these Blue Screens of Death all the time and my system isn't very stable it seems. I'm not sure what's going on, not so long ago I purchased the Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit OEM version from Overclockers for my PC. I've been having these problems when I do a fresh install. I used to run Windows XP Professional (SP3) on this machine before and it was fine, used to run really well but my XP installation messed up recently so I've decided now not to bother with XP anymore and move onto Windows 7.
I'm just in the process of installing it again and I'm being very careful what I'm putting on this time. I have downloaded the correct drivers for my motherboard (ASUS P5Q Deluxe) from the Asus site and I have one a time installed them. I'm not doing anything wrong as far as I know and I have installed systems many times before but on this occasion I just get BSOD every so often.
I have been looking into trying to find out more about Blue Screens of Death and I have been working out how to open a minidump file using a debug program provided by Microsoft. I am about to install this program again so I can look at the most recent minidump file and see what I can learn from it. I have also discovered with Windows 7 that you can use the program built into Windows called Verifier to test your drivers etc.. I have tried using this and it has caused it to blue screen on purpose by stressing out the drivers to see whether it will crash or not. I also understand that when using Verifier you have to boot the machine back up in Safe Mode so you can cancel the settings to allow your machine to run normally again. I have tried all this, I wanted to come here really and post up some of the minidump files so that somebody here might be able to help understand what's causing the problem.
I was installing my machine again over last night and I kept getting a BSOD with the same message all the time which said SYSTEM_SERVICE_EXCEPTION 3B. I did try googling this and on one page for Microsort support on this error it said there was a hotfix to solve this problem. I downloaded the hotfix and tried to install it but it said that "this machine cannot install this update". I was a bit annoyed that it didn't work. I also found various other pages saying different things about this BSOD error.
I need to start again now with this really, I've just made a fresh clean install of Windows 7 Ultimate x64 and it's just updating from Microsoft at the moment. I've put barely any programs on it. I'm sure at some point it will Blue Screen again. At that point I will try and provide more information as to what's happening here.
I do need some help really with all this, it's starting to get me down a bit and I've been trying my best to make my machine work but it's being a pig.
As far as my machine spec is concerned this is what I'm running:
CPU = Intel Core 2 Quad Q9550 @ 2.83Ghz
COOLER = Coolermaster V8
RAM = Corsair Dominator 4GB (2 x 2GB DDR2 1066Mhz)
MOBO = Asus P5Q Deluxe - Bios Version 2301
STORAGE = System drive, WD Blue SATA 500GB
STORAGE 2 = RAID 10, WD Green Caviar SATA 1TB x 4
PSU = Coolermaster ATX 1000Watt
GRAPHICS = ATI Radeon HD 4870 x 2 in Crossfire mode
TV CARD = Compro T750
SOUNDCARD = M-Audio Delta AP 192
CASE = Coolermaster CM Stacker 832
OS = Windows 7 Ultimate x64
I was thinking that there might have been some sort of problem with my System hard drive (WD Blue 500GB) so I plugged it into another machine today and I tested it for errors using HD Tune but it didn't seem to have any problems really. I also tried before I installed Windows 7 again, formatting the entire machine in NTFS very slowly to make sure it was fully wiped before I installed Windows 7 again. I don't think there's anything wrong with the hard drive I'm using. As far as my machine goes there's nothing really wrong with the hardware, everything is plugged in correctly and it seems to be working as it should. It seems to be more of a software problem I'm having. I've also tested the memory in my machine using MemTest and it passed fine, I don't think I have faulty memory as far as I know, it did a couple of passes in MemTest and it was OK.
Not sure what's going on really, I'm trying to be very careful with using it at the moment and I'm sure at some point it will Blue Screen again.
Any help I can get with this will be VERY appreciated.