Windows 8 BSODing

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Hi guys,

Someone help me before I smash the disc in to a billion pieces. :mad:

I installed Windows 8 pro from an upgrade disc, and all was well. Anyway, I was putting apps on and it BSOD'd. No big deal, I hadn't seen it do this on Windows 7, but hey ho, I thought it was just a case of "new and unstable".

Fast forward a few months and my system is still unreliable. I can't even transfer files to an external drive without fear of it crashing. Sometimes it'll crash when browsing, other times when it's transferring files or occasionally when I'm syncing my phone in iTunes.

The error I get is a "CRITICAL_CORRUPTION_ERROR".

I've tried many things like running my RAM at 1600MHz instead of the XMP profile. I've tried running the CPU setting at "extreme" which I saw someone mention in a similar thread but I'm stuck tbh.

All my hardware is running latest drivers and firmware and the motherboard is on the latest BIOS.

The only things I havent done is to run memtest, purely because this machine ran Windows 7 without a single problem, although I'm open to try it.

Anything else I can do? I've not got much experience troubleshooting BSODs.
 
Weird you said RAM, I'm hoping it wasn't that. :(

When I built the PC it was only ever showing 28 of the 32GB installed. After I tested EVERY stick in each slot I found the final slot to be dodgy. Anyway, I read online that the X79 chips are sensitive to seating and it may cause RAM slots to not correctly show up.

I reseated the CPU cooler and all appeared in Windows ok. To be honest I haven't touched it since for fear of it not working again.

I'll run memtest all day tomorrow and report back. If it fails I'll have to reseat the cooler :o
 
It is 2 matched pairs of 16GB corsair vengeance.


EVH said:
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Better pictures coming soon, just finished formatting and I'm wrecked :p

Kit list
Corsair 650D
Intel 3930K
Asus P8X79 Pro
32GB Corsair Vengeance RAM
256GB Vertex 4 SSD
2x Seagate 3TB in RAID 0
2x Nvidia GTX680 4GB in SLI
Pioneer Blu-ray drive
Corsair AX1200 with cable braid kit
Dual bay res (hidden behind the stock fascias)
Laing D5 pump
XSPC EX240 rad
Phobya 200mm rad
Spectre Pro 200mm fan
3x Scythe GT1850s
XSPC Clearflex 7/16 tubing
EK compression fittings
EK supremacy nickel plexi cpu block
EK plexi FC680 waterblock
EK plexi dual parallel bridge
Mayhem Blue dye
Click to expand...
 
Been running for 21hrs now, and 0 errors :confused:

Any other ideas? I'd rather not reformat.
 
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