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BSODs on newish machine

Discussion in 'Windows BSOD, Freezing, Restarting Help' started by Ckorban, Dec 14, 2011.

  1. Ckorban Newcomer, in training

    Background:
    So I built this machine about a month ago, and it was working fine till a week ago, when I started getting random BSODs. They're not always the same call-out, and was wondering if you could help me get to the bottom of it. I am not aware of any changes, except for maybe video card driver updates, that could be causing this.


    Problem:

    BF3 is crashing for random reasons, I never find out why. I had crossfire enabled and disabled it and it still crashed. Sometimes I get a BSOD while playing bf3, other time I was just on youtube.

    System:
    Win 7, 64bit
    i5-2500K
    ASRock P67 Extreme4 Gen3
    2x MSI Twin Frozr R6950 III's
    16GB Corsair Vengeance Ram
    120GB Crucial M4 SSD as boot drive
    4x 2TB in RAID5 for storage.

    What first step should I take?

    Thanks,
    Chris

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  2. Tmagic650 TechSpot Ambassador

    The minidump is not readable. Can you repost it?
  3. Ckorban Newcomer, in training

    I just added a .zip of them. Thanks for taking a look.
  4. Tmagic650 TechSpot Ambassador

    This is an ATI driver fault... Are you sure your power supply is big enough for all that hardware? 5 hard drives and 2 video cards... What are the power supply's specs and wattage rating?
  5. Ckorban Newcomer, in training

    It is a Corsair AX850, a seemingly very high quality PSU and based on calculations should be more than enough if I calculated correctly. I am not overclocking anything at all. The minidumps call out the ATI drivers?
  6. Tmagic650 TechSpot Ambassador

    Yes it's an ATI video driver issue. Where are you getting the ATI driver from? The power supply should be fine
  7. Ckorban Newcomer, in training

    I downloaded it from AMD.com. Should I stick to something else (msi.com)? I mainly/only play BF3, and would love to be able to play it with crossfire without it crashing every 10 minutes.
  8. Tmagic650 TechSpot Ambassador

    Try MSI...
  9. Ckorban Newcomer, in training

    I tried the newer (11.12) ATI drivers and the MSI drivers as well, and in both situations I managed to get at least one BSOD. The latest one, with MSI drivers, called out win32k.sys I believe, but I cannot find any new dumps in my minidump folder. Any idea where it could be? Could you guide me in the right direction please?
  10. Tmagic650 TechSpot Ambassador

    Can you run a test on the hard drive? Also, are you over-clocking?
  11. Ckorban Newcomer, in training

    I used HD Tune 2.55 and ran an Error Scan which reported 0.0% damaged blocks. Is there another tool that might be better suited for SSDs maybe? Also, I am not overclocking.
  12. Ckorban Newcomer, in training

    Just got another BSOD, IRQL_DRIVER_LESS_THAN_OR_EQUAL or something along those lines on tcpip.sys :S
  13. Tmagic650 TechSpot Ambassador

    Tcpip.sys is a network driver. Are you sure you have installed all the motherboard drivers including the Chipset properly?
  14. Ckorban Newcomer, in training

    I believe so. Should I do a firmware upgrade on the mobo if available and reinstall the the newest drivers?
  15. Tmagic650 TechSpot Ambassador

    I guess so if you haven't already...
  16. Ckorban Newcomer, in training

    Hey Tmagic, thanks for the help so far.

    Just got another BSOD, PFN list corrupt this time.
    Quick question, I am not seeing new minidumps in my minidump folder. Where could they be?
  17. Tmagic650 TechSpot Ambassador

  18. Ckorban Newcomer, in training

    chkdsk came up with no errors and memtest also had no errors after a multitude of passes.

    I updated my motherboard BIOS.

    I just got another BSOD on tcpip.sys, and this time I managed to get the minidump. Let me know if you are not able to open it.

    Thanks again :)

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  19. Tmagic650 TechSpot Ambassador

  20. Ckorban Newcomer, in training

    And another dump... I'm running out of ideas :(

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