Hello,
I have a rather complex issue that I cannot find explanation to. Before I am asked to send any Dump Files (I'm at work now) could you please take a look at my problem's description I provided below and post any comments that you may have.
My PC's Specs:
- AMD Phenom II 6 Core @ 3.2 GHz;
- ASUS Motherboard with updated BIOS;
- ~8 Gb Kingston DDR3 RAM @ 1.3 GHz;
- Sapphire Radeon HD4890 2Gb;
- WD Caviar ~1.5Tb HDD;
- 650W OCZ Power Supply;
- Windows 7 Home Premium 64bit;
- ABSOLUTELY NOTHING HAS BEEN OVERCLOCKED AND ALL USED TO WORK ON DEFAULT SETTINGS!
- Hardware is 2 months old (it used to work with no problems for a month).
- System is 2 months old (it used to work with no problems for a month).
The Issues I'm having:
1. I am getting "Blue Screens of Death" with these messages: MEMORY MANAGEMENT, PAGE FAULT IN NONPAGED AREA, BAD POOL HEADER. Sometimes, the BSoDs have no "capital letter codename" but they are dumping some files for a few seconds and reboot my PC.
2. Sometimes, my PC doesn't crash and reboot with a BSoD but instead the screen goes sort of "out of sync" and all the horizontal pixel lines get shifted against each other sideways. Seconds after that the PC reboots.
3. The most interesting part comes now: the above mentioned crashes occur ONLY during the first ~20 minutes from when I start my PC after it's been off for a longer period (12 hours). After I get through the first ~20 minutes of crashes and reboots the PC can work well for hours with only minor glitches, stuttering and "file corruption" messages which disappear however after a system restart.
4. The above mentioned glitches and "file corruption" messages vary and can also cause Virus Warnings (although I have no Viruses) to appear and Windows Explorer restarts/reloads (all the icons next to the Time & Date reload). They seem to be gone after a system reboot.
5. Many times after a crash Norton Internet Security 360 4.0 finds various errors and tries to download a patch file. Unfortunately, the patch is corrupted in most cases and sometimes the patching process never completes. While this occurs my Norton Internet Security goes "off-line" and claims my system is vulnerable to threats.
My thoughts:
- I do not think it's the CPU as I have checked it with a monitoring software and pushed it "to the limit" with another. There were no errors recorded and the temperature stayed within the limits for the whole test (~1 hour).
- I do not think it's the HDD (bad sectors) as the errors I get are different every time and the file corruption occurs in random places and is gone after a reboot.
- I do not think it's the drivers as the variety of errors seems to be too great (see point 4 above).
- I DO think it could be RAM...
I've battled this problem for the last month. I posted on other forums but hardly anybody answered. I hope someone here will help me resolve this issue. It should not be a problem if it turns out I need to buy new hardware. It's just I need to be sure what I need to buy...
Please, assist!
Kind regards -
Darek
I have a rather complex issue that I cannot find explanation to. Before I am asked to send any Dump Files (I'm at work now) could you please take a look at my problem's description I provided below and post any comments that you may have.
My PC's Specs:
- AMD Phenom II 6 Core @ 3.2 GHz;
- ASUS Motherboard with updated BIOS;
- ~8 Gb Kingston DDR3 RAM @ 1.3 GHz;
- Sapphire Radeon HD4890 2Gb;
- WD Caviar ~1.5Tb HDD;
- 650W OCZ Power Supply;
- Windows 7 Home Premium 64bit;
- ABSOLUTELY NOTHING HAS BEEN OVERCLOCKED AND ALL USED TO WORK ON DEFAULT SETTINGS!
- Hardware is 2 months old (it used to work with no problems for a month).
- System is 2 months old (it used to work with no problems for a month).
The Issues I'm having:
1. I am getting "Blue Screens of Death" with these messages: MEMORY MANAGEMENT, PAGE FAULT IN NONPAGED AREA, BAD POOL HEADER. Sometimes, the BSoDs have no "capital letter codename" but they are dumping some files for a few seconds and reboot my PC.
2. Sometimes, my PC doesn't crash and reboot with a BSoD but instead the screen goes sort of "out of sync" and all the horizontal pixel lines get shifted against each other sideways. Seconds after that the PC reboots.
3. The most interesting part comes now: the above mentioned crashes occur ONLY during the first ~20 minutes from when I start my PC after it's been off for a longer period (12 hours). After I get through the first ~20 minutes of crashes and reboots the PC can work well for hours with only minor glitches, stuttering and "file corruption" messages which disappear however after a system restart.
4. The above mentioned glitches and "file corruption" messages vary and can also cause Virus Warnings (although I have no Viruses) to appear and Windows Explorer restarts/reloads (all the icons next to the Time & Date reload). They seem to be gone after a system reboot.
5. Many times after a crash Norton Internet Security 360 4.0 finds various errors and tries to download a patch file. Unfortunately, the patch is corrupted in most cases and sometimes the patching process never completes. While this occurs my Norton Internet Security goes "off-line" and claims my system is vulnerable to threats.
My thoughts:
- I do not think it's the CPU as I have checked it with a monitoring software and pushed it "to the limit" with another. There were no errors recorded and the temperature stayed within the limits for the whole test (~1 hour).
- I do not think it's the HDD (bad sectors) as the errors I get are different every time and the file corruption occurs in random places and is gone after a reboot.
- I do not think it's the drivers as the variety of errors seems to be too great (see point 4 above).
- I DO think it could be RAM...
I've battled this problem for the last month. I posted on other forums but hardly anybody answered. I hope someone here will help me resolve this issue. It should not be a problem if it turns out I need to buy new hardware. It's just I need to be sure what I need to buy...
Please, assist!
Kind regards -
Darek
